At dawn on the 3rd of September we came into collision (I was one of the advanced body at my own request) with the Abyssinian vanguard at Ardeb in the valley of the Jubba.
Every horse-owner is entitled to half an ardebof dhurra from the beit el mal.
Soon the price per ardebrose from twelve to twenty dollars, and latterly to sixty dollars.
In Kassala and Galabat matters were even worse; here the price of an ardeb had gone up to two hundred and fifty dollars, and even for this enormous price it was almost impossible to get it, for there was really none in the country.
The monthly pay of the mulazemin consists of half a Dervish dollar, and, every fortnight, one-eighth of an ardeb of dhurra.
The crowds accompanying the Mahdi were now complaining greatly of the want of corn and dhurra; the price of anardeb had risen to eighteen medjidie dollars, which were then equivalent to about nine pounds sterling.
Wheat is selling at 1 pound the ardeb {188} here on the threshing-floor, and barley at one hundred and sixteen piastres; I saw some Nubians pay Mustapha that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ardeb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
