Sentence examples for camelback from inspiring English sources

Thesiger restricted himself to the means of travel available to the Bedouins, making difficult and dangerous journeys on camelback with minimal food and water.

An Indian Civil Service officer turned Arabist and explorer, he spent 20 years travelling across the desert on camelback charting Saudi's unexplored Empty Quarter, crossing paths with Lawrence of Arabia, and eventually marrying a slave-girl given to him by his friend King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, to whom he spent many years as personal advisor.

Acting against British counsel — peace among the Yemeni tribes was fragile, and anything might incite them — pushing herself through more illness (dengue fever, apparently), and going as much as twenty-two honrs on camelback in two days, she pondered such questions as whether it was "a passion for mystery chiefly which explains the optimism of human beings toward both polygamy and travel".

Squinting into the desert, Stewart — lean, straight-backed, and about five feet nine — was never seen without cufflinks, even on camelback.

He almost says something, but then Mr. Hafez replies, "Part of that trip is on camelback," and everyone knows that it would be impossible, that this is not where the Frenchman has gone.

In the wake of the planes came Sudanese soldiers, packed into trucks and Land Cruisers; they were followed by hundreds of menacing janjaweed on camelback and horseback.

Open Mon-Fri for lunch and dinner, closes Mon-Thurs 10pm, Fri-Sat 11pm Further east, Camelback Road edges the Arcadia neighbourhood, where thirtysomethings have been busy rehabbing houses on 1950s and 1960s developments and transforming them into retro-cool mid-century digs.

It is a monumental place, a sort of desert castle at the far end of a gated development in North Scottsdale, overlooking Camelback Mountain.

Wright designed this 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foote, Gladys, on a desert site faconcretethomeward Camelback Mountain in a neighborhood called Arcadia.

Mr. Page spoke at a resort in the shadow of Camelback Mountain, along with speakers like Sean Penn, the celebrity economist Austan Goolsbee, the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Bill Clinton, who joined virtually via Google Plus Hangout.

The house sits in the Arcadia neighborhood, in a lot overlooking Phoenix's picturesque Camelback Mountains, which can be seen from most of its rooms.