Setting of Camus's "The Stranger"

Usage examples of algiers.

Saracen, Algerine, Barbary - they were all pirates and had been for centuries, whether they came from the Levant in the east or Algiers in the west.

Stephen telegraphed an acceptance, saying that he would start for Algiers in two or three days.

But glancing over a French paper while he breakfasted at the Westminster, he saw that a slight accident had happened to the boat during a storm on her return voyage from Algiers, and that she would be delayed three days for repairs.

After Saidee was married and taken to Algiers, my stepmother began to imagine herself in love with an American from Indiana, whom she met in Paris.

And the minister wrote to the American Consul in Algiers for me, but the only answer was that Cassim ben Halim had disappeared.

Even though she had disappeared from there, it seemed to me that Algiers would be the place to begin my search.

If her husband is a bad man, and if the reason he left Algiers is because he lost his money, as I sometimes think, I may have to bribe him to let her go.

Once settled in Algiers she must stay there quietly till the authorities found her sister.

Marseilles and Algiers, makes the trip in eighteen hours, as advertised.

He did not add what remained of the truth, that he had thought of Algiers as a refuge from what had become disagreeable, rather than as a beautiful place which he wished to see for its own sake.

All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.

Dey of Algiers, in sixteen hundred and something, and the place had been allowed to fall into ruin when my uncle bought it, about twenty or thirty years ago.

Because of that face he remained in Algiers, bought this house, spent years in restoring it, exactly in Arab style, and making a beautiful garden out of his fifteen or sixteen acres.

I may as well break it to you now, as I had to do to Nevill when he invited me to come to Algiers and straighten out his housekeeping accounts: they play Ruth to my Naomi.

It is already long that he went away from Algiers, no one knows where.