"The word Dahomey, or more properly Da-omi, means Da's belly.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War] Reference

The dry lowland area on the eastern edge of the ecoregion is termed the Dahomey Gap and is a major biogeographical barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Guinean forests] Reference

Jan. 27, 2009 - Jim Hyres (Nation once known as Dahomey / Game with "Out of Gas" cards / Big name in retail jewelry / Myopic Mr.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference

That, and "Dahomey", gives it a really hilarious anachronistic feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video map: Yakko's world!] Reference

Benin was known as Dahomey until 1975.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Present day Benin was the site of Dahomey, a prominent West.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

If Dahomey is not a large country, it is often talked about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

The powerful sovereign of Dahomey has agreed to abolish the slave trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

Telegraph, reviewing a French book of “Phrases in common use” in Dahomey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

Dahomey ladies, who have no opportunities for these pleasant little arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference

According to his story, he and Louis had tried to see into the Dahomey village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

Dahomey village, but she had not dreamed of such a terrible scene taking place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

Here, however, it is tolerably tame, and breeds faster than in Congo or Dahomey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference

In Dahomey the hand that rocks the cradle does not bother about ruling the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

But “the new Athens” seems to me to surpass Dahomey in ferocity and imbecility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference

King of Dahomey, is about to make the 'Grand Custom' in honor of the late King Gezo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference

Dahomey, in sacrifice to his gods, beneath the sheltering shade of the tum-tum tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

On the horizon was the confused outline of the Kong mountains in the kingdom of Dahomey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

Dahomey gained its independence from France in 1960; the name was changed to Benin in 1975.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In Dahomey and Ashanti war captives used to be sold "en bloc" to white traders at so much per capita.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

Background: Dahomey gained its independence from France in 1960; the name was changed to Benin in 1975.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Located in the southern portion of present-day Benin, Dahomey developed into a highly centralized state.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Forest West Africa] Reference

Present day Benin was the site of Dahomey, a prominent West African kingdom that rose in the 15th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Amazons, but very different from the Dahomey variety, who were under discipline and drilled like guardsmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman on the March]

He tells us, however, that in the case of the King of Dahomey, human sacrifice is not attributable to cruelty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

We know — and he knew — that the kingdom of Dahomey is one of the most powerful on the West Coast of Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

The Fon kingdom of Dahomey arose amid the unstable conditions and rivalries spawned by the Atlantic slave trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Forest West Africa] Reference

In Dahomey the Amazonian guards of the king perform all military duty with equal ease and thoroughness with men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Robur, who knew the customs of Dahomey, did not lose sight of the men, women, and children reserved for butchery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

The Upper and Lower Guinean biota, which was once considered to be separated by the Dahomey Gap, overlaps in the delta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niger Delta swamp forests] Reference

In all his long pilgrimage Livingstone saw scarcely a trace of the brutal rites and bloody superstitions of Dahomey and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the African kingdom of Dahomey (Benin).    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

This forest unit is bordered on the west by the drier habitats of the Dahomey Gap, and to the east by the Niger River Delta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nigerian lowland forests] Reference

The next day was what the boys called African day; that is, they intended to see all that was to be seen from Dahomey to Nubia and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference