Baba Sentence Examples

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  • At the end of the 18th century Baba Mahommed tried in vain to batter down the tomb with artillery.

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  • In June 1893 Persia ceded to Russia the small but very fertile and strategically important district of Firuza and the adjacent lands between Baba Durmaz and Lutfabad on the northern frontier of Khorasan, and received in exchange the important village of Hissar and a strip of desert ground near Abbasabad on the frontier of Azerbaijan, which had become Russian territory in I 828, according to the Treaty of Turkmanchai.

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  • The works of James Morier, especially his Adventures of Hajji Baba of .Tspahan, throw much light on Persian society in the early years of the 19th century.

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  • Aghrem Baba Saad, a small ruined town to the west of Ghardaia, is the fortified post in which the Beni-Mzab took refuge when the Turks under Salah Rais (about 1555) attempted unsuccessfully to subjugate the country.

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  • The principal fish are the baba or cat-fish (clarias sp.) and the yellow-fish, both of which attain considerable size.

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  • This position corresponds to the Jewish practice of reading the book at the feast of Pentecost; Spanish MSS., however, place it at the head of the Megilloth; and the Talmud (Baba Bathra, 14b) gives it the first place among all the Hagiographa.

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  • The state of Mysore and the Baba Budan range also witnessed the first opening of a coffee-garden by an English planter about 1840.

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  • The caliph sent against them Mahommed al-Qommi, who subdued them in 856 and brought their king Ali Baba to Samarra before Motawakkil, on condition that he should be restored to his kingdom.

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  • Sir Gore Ouseley returned to England in 1814, in which year Mr Ellis, assisted by Mr Morierwhose Hajji Baba is the unfailing proof of his ability and deep knowledge of Persian character negotiated on the part of Great Britain the Treaty of Teheran.

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  • The Alai Mountains are continued westwards in the radiating ranges of the Karateghin Mountains, Zarafshan Mountains, the Hissar Mountains and the Turkestan range, which reach altitudes of 18,500-22,000 ft., though peak Baba in the Zarafshan range reaches nearly 20,000 ft.

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  • The Book of Baruch was never accepted as canonical by the Palestinian Jews (Baba Batra, 4 b), though the Apostolic Constitutions, v.

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  • The room was a beautiful shrine to the Indian mystic Sri Satya Sai Baba.

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  • The deaf child exposed only to speech will usually begin to babble ("baba, gaga") at a slightly later point than the hearing child.

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  • For men, there is no choice more comfortable than the Be Love Now tee, which features artwork reminiscent of Baba Ram Dass's spiritual journey, told in his book by the same name.

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  • The whole album was penned by Pete Townshend, who based it on the teachings of Meher Baba.

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  • Townshend had been studying Baba's writing and believed he had experienced a spiritual awakening.

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  • The Talmudic tradition (Baba Batlara 14b) that the men of the Great Synagogue " wrote " Ezekiel, may refer to editorial work by later scholars.'

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  • The baba or cat fish and the yellow fish are plentiful in the rivers and the trout has been acclimatized.

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  • Realizing the urgent need of gaining ground before the enemy was gathered in full strength, and hoping to win the heights beyond Krithia and Achi Baba, Sir I.

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  • The direct passes across it from Herat (the Baba and the Ardewan) wind amongst masses of disintegrating sandstone for some miles on each side of the dividing watershed, but farther west the rounded knolls of the rain-washed downs may be crossed almost at any point without difficulty.

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  • Similarly in Baba batra, 58a, we read, "he was of extraordinary beauty and sun-like brightness."

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  • One of these converts, Baba Budan by name, is said to have gone on a pilgrimage to Mecca and to have brought back with him the coffee berry, which he planted on the hill range in Mysore still called after him.

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  • There are not many varieties of freshwater fish, the commonest being the baba or cat-fish and the yellow fish.

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  • Both are of large size, the baba weighing as much as 70 lb.

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  • In 3 hours I had nearly 50 lifers, Baba finding birds very efficiently.

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  • The highland region of northern Albania is divided into two portions by the lower course of the Drin; the mountains of the northern portion, the Bieska Malziis, extend in a confused and broken series of ridges from Scutari to the valleys of the Ibar and White Drin; they comprise the rocky group of the Prokletia, or Accursed Mountains, with their numerous ramifications, including Mount Velechik, inhabited by the Kastrat and Shkrel tribes, Bukovik by the Hot, Golesh by the Klement, Skulsen (7533 ft.), Baba Vrkh (about 7306 ft.), Maranay near Scutari, and the Bastrik range to the east.

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