Turkistan or Bactriana; the dromedary is confined to Arabia and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
How much better than a petrified peacock, or a labelled dromedary!. From Wordnik.com. [The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories] Reference
The difference between a camel and a dromedary is the difference between a hack and a thorough-bred horse. From Wordnik.com. [Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity] Reference
Perplexed Tribune auditors decided the dromedary was a capital expense and wired O'Reilly: "WHERE IS CAMEL?". From Wordnik.com. [Sparing no expense: Reimbursements to remember] Reference
A dromedary is a swifter kind of camel, and is just as superior to a camel as a riding-horse is to a cart-horse. From Wordnik.com. [Far Off] Reference
I learned in the process that my memory is in no way alphabetized (I mean, who remembers "dromedary" before "duck"?). From Wordnik.com. [thing-a-day 2010] Reference
The dromedary is the swifter of the two. From Wordnik.com. [De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars] Reference
HANNA: That's a dromedary, everybody, one-hump camel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
The camel is an animal -- this is, by the way, a dromedary. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
Whereupon the dromedary stood up and declared for the ostrich. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Literature] Reference
The dromedary, which had bolted in the Desert, was brought into. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen] Reference
Mephisto changes himself into a horse -- 'with wings like a dromedary.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
She approaches the dromedary, which opens one eye by way of recognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
Spendius had bought a slave with the money brought him by his dromedary. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
This is one hump for a dromedary camel and two humps for a Bactrian camel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
It happened that my dromedary veered rather suddenly from her onward course. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen] Reference
Still again, old ‘Afnán’s dromedary had a thorn in the foot — u.s. w. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
"That's the boy who called me a dromedary," said Hibbert, as they turned away. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
This is dromedary, dromedary means one hump, Bactrian with a B means two humps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
As a sign of good faith, the industry has already fired its favorite spokes-dromedary. From Wordnik.com. [Testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee] Reference
They were separated by a child who had been startled by a look from an amiable dromedary. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
The dromedary winks three times and puts a sinuous, swaying sort of motion into his body. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
It was then debated whether they should not raise a force of dromedary-men to fall upon us. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
For the dromedary is not only a strict teetotaler and non - smoker, but a lifelong vegetarian. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28] Reference
He nimbly mounts the crupper of his now unladen dromedary, and at a trot moves down the bazar. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
The nobles listened to this advice, and sent a messenger to Zal, mounted on a swift dromedary. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
A dromedary flashing up the sands, -- spray of the dry ocean sailed by the "ship of the desert.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Spendius was seen stooping upon his dromedary, and spurring it on the shoulders with two javelins. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Then again a dromedary will come for a walk on a fine evening without involving one in a dog-fight. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28] Reference
Amir put his dromedary to speed, resulting in a nose-flattening fall; and the Sayyid nearly followed suit. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Arabia, is their neglecting the difference between the slow camel travelling and the fast dromedary riding. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Mounted on a dromedary, he made his way, without stopping, to Alexandria, where Waghorn awaited him with a steamer. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A tremendous hooting broke out from among the Barbarian troops, and Spendius exclaimed from the top of his dromedary. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
How could the foot of the poor jaded pedestrian go on, now that the Bactrian dromedary got impatient of its burden?. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
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