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Dromedary
"Dromedary" in a Sentence (17 examples)
How many humps would an offspring of a Bactrian and a dromedary camel get?
"Can you identify this animal?" "Sure! It's a camel!" "Wrong! A dromedary!"
It is not difficult to distinguish camels from dromedaries, for while the dromedary has only one hump, the camel has two.
The dromedary has enabled humans to inhabit the hostile regions of the Sahara Desert.
On the first day I came across an unknown bird who told me "If I was a dromedary I wouldn't be thirsty. What time is it?" It drank the drops of dew from my hair, shot me three glances and a half, and went away saying "Goodbye" with its giant handkerchief.
“Walk ahead of yourself, like the dromedary who guides the caravan,” says a Tuareg proverb.
A dromedary has one hump, but a bactrian camel has two humps.
The dromedary isn't aware of its hump.
The duke in his schelde and dreches no lengere, / Drawes hym a dromedarie, with dredfulle knyghtez; [...]
The Dromedarie, Camell, Horſe, and Aſſe, / For loade and carriage doth a Sheepe ſurpaſſe: [...]
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[T]he Dromedarie [...] who is marvellous ſwift, and will run an hundred miles in a day; but the Germanes call a dull and ſlow man a Dromedary, [...]
I went to see a Dromedarie, a very monstrous beaste, much like the Camel but larger.
Oh, thou Dromedary, thou Founder'd Mule, without a Pack-ſaddle; or what other foul Beaſt ſhall I call thee, for Man thou art not, nor haſt not been to me, Heaven knows the time when? Art not thou aſham'd to ſee me, thou Nincompoop?
Here we alighted, drank ourſelves, and gave our dromedaries to drink as much as they would; then we filled all our veſſels, made on purpoſe for carriage, and took in a much greater proportion of water than we had done proviſions.
[T]he camel has two bunches upon his back, whereas the dromedary has but one; the latter alſo, is neither ſo large, nor ſo ſtrong, as the camel. Theſe two races, however, produce with each other, and the mixed breed formed between them is conſidered the beſt, the moſt patient, and the moſt indefatigable of all the kind.
[T]hou art like a ſwift dromedarie, that runneth by his wayes.
The untreated cases have been arranged in three groups according to the clinical course. The first group, called the dromedary group, shows the curious phenomenon of two different periods of illness with an interval of well-being. […] Because of the two distinct groups or humps of symptoms, the analogy to the arrangement of the dromedary’s back was taken to express the type figuratively.
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