The traders mounted on double-humped Bacteria Camels depict the early trade scenes between Yarkhand and Ladakh. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Colors] Reference
Casca had followed a caravan of double-humped camels, braying and spitting under the loads they carried swinging on their backs. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
This rush of electricity sweeps in a spiral around the entire heart, from the double-humped top to the pointy little bottom, making a complete circuit top to bottom -- bottom to top. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Wiley: Can Staying Up Late Cause Heart Disease?] Reference
(It also means that students thinking about a law career and hoping for the giant salaries offered by the biggest firms should really understand what that double-humped curve means to their prospects.). From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: More About Starting Salaries] Reference
And given the law firm salary structure is now a notoriously double-humped curve (see Starting Salaries For Law Students are BiModal — If Not Bipolar for more details), this is a fairly severe truth-in-advertising problem. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: More About Starting Salaries] Reference
Here we had the first glimpse of few double-humped. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Sometimes a person falling over a strategically placed double-humped camel is just funny. From Wordnik.com. [A Day In The Life] Reference
And you know you are in a cold desert when you are offered a ride on a double-humped camel, more famous in the Gobi desert. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
It is not certain that we know the originally wild form of either of the two species, the double-humped or single-humped camels. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
At Hunder we have a joyride on famous double-humped Bactrian camels in the silver-sand dotted on edges with sea-buckthorn bushes. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Upon getting higher we perceived to the south, beyond the four-terraced plateau, another plateau with vertical walls, and to the south-west a high double-humped dome -- resembling Mount Vesuvius in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
In the great undulating valley we left behind -- as we now altered our course slightly to the north-west -- was prominent a double-humped hill which rose higher than any other except in the north-west portion of the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The largest of those workers possess extraordinarily massive, double-humped heads, highly polished in the case of members which are visible on the surface, and dull and hairy in the giant fellows which spend their lives within the subterranean passages. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The past lingers on here with a small population of double-humped Bactrian camels which in old times were used as mode of transportation on the Central Asian trade route; are now being used for silver moonlight safari and as pack-animals quite popular mode of transport today for the locals. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
"Oh! no danger of that," sang out Toby, jubilantly; "let's s-s-see, there's one l-lion, three elephants, three double-humped c-c-camels, an ostrich, and the zebra there right now, 'cause I s-s-saw the whole lot. From Wordnik.com. [Chums of the Camp Fire] Reference
To the south-south-west towered above everything the double-humped active volcano of Kuh-i-Daftan, with its snow-capped crater. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
Beautiful horses, huge elephants and comical monkeys; rhinoceroses and buffaloes adorned with housings and tassels; double-humped Bactrian camels with gold collars on their shaggy necks; waggon-loads of rare woods and ivory, woven goods of exquisite texture, casks of ingots and gold-dust, gold and silver vessels, rare plants for the royal gardens, and foreign animals for the preserves, the most remarkable of which were antelopes, zebras, and rare monkeys and birds, these last being tethered to a tree in full leaf and fluttering among the branches. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
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