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Usage examples of basra.

Port Sudan, Massawa, the new port which is being developed in the Red Sea, Asmara, Basra, Tobruk, etc.

Ibn ad-Duraihim, but its beginnings are probably to be found in the intense and minute scrutiny of the Koran by whole schools of grammarians in Basra, Kufa, and Baghdad to elucidate its meanings.

Amery telegraphed in this sense to the Viceroy on the same day, and Lord Linlithgow and the Commander-in-Chief, General Auchinleck, promptly offered to divert to Basra an infantry brigade and a regiment of field artillery, most of which was already on board ship for Malaya.

JAFAR Sir, we are four merchants who came yesterday night from Basra, and on our arrival we met in the street a man of Basra settled in Bagdad, who prayed us to dine with him.

It must be the widow of that Achmet they hung last year by the Basra Gate.

So we accepted and stayed late talking the talk of Basra, and left him but an hour ago.

RAFI Had I but known thee last night, thou man of Basra, whom men call Caliph of the Faithful--O thou massacrer of good men--had I but known thee, had I but known thee!

Two were letters from the company’s Basra office, describing negotiations with a Yu Yongfu, president of Flying Dragon, con earning a cargo of agricultural implements, chemicals, electronics, and other goods to be delivered to the company on a ship named The Dowager Empress.

The Euphrates formerly reached the sea by a separate channel, which was obstructed and diverted by the citizens of Orchoe, about twenty miles to the south-east of modern Basra.

Carpets from Isfahan, pearls from Basra, enameled leather from Có.

On almost every day, the pandemonium in the market square outdid the rest of Basra put together.