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Usage examples of omani.

Later the Omani Arabs, under their warrior king Ahmed El Grang the Left-handed, had sailed in with their war dhows, attacked the Portuguese and had driven out their garrison with great slaughter.

Hali Omani came to be his roommate and his stolidity had a calming effect.

He would go weeks without dreaming of Antonelli, of his gross nose and wattled neck, of the leer with which he would push George into a boiling quicksand and hold him under, till he woke screaming with Omani bending over him in concern.

In the meantime he must make the most of this last opportunity to enter the Omani camp as a neutral and to gather all the intelligence that came his way.

It would cost two hundred pounds for me to obtain an Omani Letter of Marque for you, sir.

He would have to avoid the fleets of the Mogul and the Omani until he had reached the Christian court of the Prester and obtained his commission from him.

From each masthead flew the banners of Islam and the pennants of Omani and the Great Mogul.

Steel war helmets glinted on the heads of the Omani troops, and they brandished their long, curved scimitars.

Hazdel never spoke of Omani, not even to this man who had been his lover since adolescence.

The Omani Arabs had been trading and slaving in Africa since the fifth century.

Tell me what you have learned of Omani and Muscat, of Lamu and Zanzibar.

With the help of the Portuguese and the collusion of the minions of the English East India Company at Zanzibar, he has seized the great fort and all the Omani settlements and possessions along the Fever Coast.

Kadem had decided that they must head northwards, and try to reach one of the coastal Omani trading centres beyond the Pongola river before their powder ran out.

At last he convinced himself that Koots was heading either for Portuguese or Omani territory, that he would not double back to attack them again.

Dorian learned that the revolutionary junta still held power in Muscat, but that Caliph Zayn al-Din had consolidated his hold on Lamu and Zanzibar and all the other ports of the Omani empire.