What is "omdurman"

Usage examples of "omdurman".

Ryder ran to him and saw a flotilla of dozens of small river craft appearing swiftly and silently out of the darkness from the direction of Omdurman, feluccas, nuggars and small dhows.

Unremarked among the other sparse river traffic, a tiny felucca used the last of the evening breeze to leave the Omdurman bank and slip downriver.

The small boat shot away at an angle across the current and headed back for Omdurman on the western side of the river.

General Gordon pointed out of the window across the White Nile at the Omdurman bank of the river.

But the pigeon would reach Omdurman before nightfall, while he and Yakub still had at least two hundred and fifty miles to ride.

He hoped they might have ridden on towards Omdurman, and left their path open to the river.

He saw the brilliant orange muzzle flashes of cannon demarcating the Omdurman side of the river.

As it approached the river, it began a wide circle high in the steely sky with the city of Omdurman as its centre.

The timid silence of the dawn was marred only by the lamentations of the new widows across the river on the Omdurman bank.

Trailing along behind them were the traders and petty merchants of Omdurman, their camels also heavily laden with trade goods and merchandise.

Nordenfelts, Krupps and plentiful supplies of ammunition in Omdurman, I have seen none being brought north with this wing of their army.

The Mahdi had forbidden the use of tobacco but he was in Omdurman, and Omdurman was far away.

He had agonized over his decision to ride for Omdurman and face the successor to the Prophet of Allah, rather than taking his aggagiers and disappearing into the eastern deserts of the Sudan.

He marched them out of Omdurman, making no effort to conceal his movements.

A large assembly of boats on the Omdurman bank would warn Gordon Pasha that something was afoot.