Certain Egyptian

Usage examples of cairene.

The latter contained nothing except a folded half-page from a Cairene daily paper, from which the date was missing.

It was true that only a few people had ever heard of this fabled Cairene of the nineteenth century, even when he was still alive.

The other man was a complete stranger, and when he spoke I recognized the Cairene accent.

George Trent had gone to a Cairene theatre, and she and Roger were alone together.

The entire area was littered with inlaid Damascus tables and Cairene folding stands which held assorted statuary and delicate porcelain vases.

He swung south onto the new Loop Road and east toward the Cairene suburb of Maadi, where many Americans lived.

French carried a Cairene intonation that went with his hawklike nose and high cheekbones.

All over the Empire, news organization CEOs got the word: there was to be no mention of Dusable or the Cairenes until further notice.

In fact there were probably very few Cairenes who could have described the lowlife of their city with as much accuracy and gusto as Menelik.

It was a heartening triumph for all true Cairenes, naturally, and a banner day for Egyptian nationalism.

A film of reflected street-lighting shimmered over the whole scene, closing the eyes of modern Cairenes to the wonder of the stars but at the same time creating the hallucination of a fairyland illuminated in greens and reds and blues and sulphurous yellows.

Roda Island contains a mosque built by Kait Bey, and at its southern extremity is the Nilometer, by which the Cairenes have for over a thousand years measured the rise of the river.

The Cairenes, or native citizens, differ from the fellahin in having a much larger mixture of Arab blood, and are at once keener witted and more conservative than the peasantry.