Sentence examples for back of a camel from inspiring English sources

"Then you might cross the Nile on the back of a camel," he said.

The paraglider, on the back of a camel or in the hull of a dugout canoe, can go places that planes, which require airports, cannot.

Riding the back of a camel with Crosby in "Road to Morocco," he's as at ease in his undershirt as Brando.

The word "nausea" derives from the Greek for "boat," but the well-known symptoms arise from a variety of stimuli: lurching on the back of a camel, say, or riding the Tilt-a-Whirl at a fair.

Lloyd Suh ("American Hwangap") tries to answer that question in this contemporary parable, which presents Jesus as a teenager traveling on the back of a camel with his pal Abigail of Galilee.

PERHAPS the best way to see the rocky country and dunes around Moab, Utah, or the Big Bend region of Texas is from about 10 feet above ground -- on the back of a camel.

It was in nearby Kufa in 661 that Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Mohamed, was badly wounded by an assassin and, as he lay dying, instructed his followers to strap his body to the back of a white camel and, where the camel stopped, to dig his grave.

Then, joining a line of hikers perhaps 200 people long, I climbed a dusty path in bitter cold darkness for one, two, three hours, occasionally pausing to make room for the front or back end of a camel.

The shape of your back should resemble a camel's hump.

In desperation, he took two buckets of onions, loaded them onto the back of his camel, and travelled across the mountains to a faraway land to try his luck.

Whether this will be the new dawn for social and economic rights, or the last straw to break the back of the camel already overburdened with obligations under EU law, only time will tell.