On the early morning of November 1 the 53rd (Welsh) Division, with the Imperial Camel Corps on its right, had moved out into the hills north of Beersheba, with the object of securing the flank of the attack on Sheria.
This caused so much delay that it was nearly noon before the last camel had got over the pass.
When Iesus saw him mourn, he said: with what difficulty shall they that have riches, enter into the kingdom of God: Easier it is for a camel to pass thorow a needles eye, then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
And moreover I say unto you: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
It is easier for a camel to go thorow the eye of an needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
It crossed the Sahara, skirting the strongholds of the Senussia Brotherhood, penetrating the wastes patrolled by the Tuaregs, ferocious camel riders whose mouths were always muffled in black bandages.
Then the dhow with the camel prow became a panoplied camel, on which he and she were being borne away to Omân, the land of his fathers, which he had never seen.
The hiss of the lash and the bound of the stung camel disturbed him but he lapsed into the immense cold again as they raced down the slight declivity toward the Syrian village.
Behind them only one camelrocked along in their wake.
Through all the shouting at cameland mule, the talk of parties and the dogged trudging of lonely and uncompanionable solitaries, the Maccabee slept.
He jerked his hand away and brought up his camel with a wrench.
Or then a woman riding one camel and leading another?
Momus, seeing only injury in attempting to enforce hospitality, turned his camel and, swinging around the outermost limits of the settlement, fled.
Laodice, shaking and crying aloud, looked back to see the strange woman swerve her camel past the dark shape lying with out-flung arms in the road and sweep quickly on after them.
The sudden halting of his camel and a hoarse strained cry at hand seemed to bear some relation to his condition, but he did not care.
Past this grisly line, a camel with a single rider swept in from seaward.
Aquila's horse kept up with the matchless speed of the tall camel only at times, and Laodice, dully sensing that they were going at hot haste, realized that a race was on between them and the pestilence.
After a long time, Costobarus' camel ambled up beside hers, and she ventured to uncover her eyes.
Laodice's camel mounted the slope toward the east and stretched away on a comparative level toward an immense white moon.
In various parts of the East the camel driver carries in a graceful manner a red forked stick, and one of this form was used as a sceptre in ancient Egypt from 5000 B.
Cowry shells on the head-stall of a camelfrom Palestine.
Water was pumped up from a tank and sprayed over the unit; air passing through the moist camel thorn was then directed into the body of the ambulance to cool the interior.
He had started from Cairo in the morning on a coastguard camel, coming quickly along the camel route between Bedrashen and Tomieh, and the extra few miles to our encampment.
I don't quite see why I was to blame for this result, but she saw, and said I ought to have warned her what a vile creature a camel was.
There's nothing like sitting still after a windy day on camel back.
The camel began to gurgle its throat in a threatening manner, and at the same time to rise.
The camels fine animals, but Anthony has provided the three best, borrowing these aristocrats of the camel world from Major Gunter of the Coast Guard.
This blow to my self-esteem fell as I was leading Monny to the white camel which was hers and should have been Anthony's.
The others take his word, meekly, but she persists, and Anthony agrees to give her the camel he had meant to ride, the one supposed to be the most spirited.
As for me, that feeling of middle age began to creep on while my coast-guard camel and I were getting acquainted.
It gave the effect of being a cross between a camel and an ostrich, and had been chosen by "Antoun" as his own mount, when he surrendered the aristocrat to Monny.
We went on more or less happily, though I noticed that whenever a camelchanged its walk for a trot, each one of the ladies reached back a desperate hand to clutch the saddle and save her spine from the bruising bump!
This time it was "Antoun" who settled her into place, with her feet meekly crossed; and the caricature of a camelrose like a sofa at a spiritualistic séance.
I hadn't been on a camel since I was four, if then, so it was useless to follow.
It is easier for a camelto go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
These couriers have a singular saddle, on which they sit cross-legged; but the rapidity of the camel is so great that, to prevent any bad effects from the air, they have their heads and bodies tightly bandaged.
One camel can carry seven or eight with thin poles; some of them are very handsome.
For the camel finds always food in trees and on bushes, and he can abstain from drink two or three days, which no horse can do.
I met, near Damascus, a very black Moor, who had ridden a camelfrom Cairo in eight days, though it is usually sixteen days' journey.
His camel had run away from him; but, with the assistance of my moucre, we recovered it.
Many of us wished to purchase asses; for the camel has a very rough movement, which is extremely fatiguing to those unaccustomed to it.
Should they have a horse or camel sick without hopes of recovery, they cut its throat and eat it.
It was enveloped in a silken covering, painted over with Moorish inscriptions; and the camel that bore it was, in like manner, decorated all over with silk.
For myself, who had hitherto ridden on a camel, and had no intention of changing, I desired they would tell me how I could ride a camel and an ass at the same time.
Behind this camel followed eight old men, mounted on the swiftest camels, and near them were led their horses, magnificently caparisoned and ornamented with rich saddles, according to the custom of the country.
The leading camel has a bell appended to his neck, which at this moment is ringing for Sahara.
Jacob's wolf and the Seven Sleepers' dog and Esdras's ass and Salih's camel and the Prophet's mule.
Accordingly, he came with his ode at the wonted time and finding Jaafer done to death, betook himself to the place where his body was hanging, and there made his camel kneel down and wept sore and mourned grievously.
The classical instance is the sacramental eating of a camel by an Arab tribe, recorded in the works of St. Nilus.
If the life had once gone out of the flesh and blood the sacrifice would have been spoilt; it was the spirit, the vitality, of the camel that his tribesmen wanted.
The camel was devoured on a particular day at the rising of the morning star.
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
He said to the rich young man, that he could not enter into the kingdom of heaven because he was rich, and that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
The camel is the ordinary beast of burden in the flat country, and can carry an enormous weight.
The ordinary burden of the Arabian camel is from seven to eight hundredweight; while the Bactrian variety is said to be capable of bearing a load nearly twice as heavy.
No: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Matt.
He remembered afterwards, however, that many centuries ago a forest, now submerged, had occupied the eastern side of the Camel estuary.
Once across the Camel and the soldiers were penned into the western half of the peninsula; but a spark of that old spirit which had won so many victories for the king was shown in a skirmish at St. Columb Major.
He halted, tethered the camel to one of the trees, and made himself as comfortable as he could.
Apparently he had supposed that the camel lying in the road was untended.
If they had been his comrades of the Guides they would find the tracks of his camel even in the dark.
Ahmed wished he had seized the man, and held him at least until the camel had recovered its temper.
Ahmed told him that he had been ill, and made him laugh heartily at his story of how the rascally innkeeper had brought a dead camel to life and restored stolen goods in the space of one night.
True; the camel is but as a leaf when the tiger springs upon him.
The camel is a beast of most uncertain temper, and in the midst of the storm Ahmed's steed suddenly sank on its knees beneath a large banian-tree that stood solitary by the roadside, tucked its legs under it, and refused to budge.
Ahmed got up to try the effect of a little coaxing; it was quite time the camel came to a reasonable frame of mind.
Instantly he drove the camel off the road on to the field.
Fortunately Ahmed had some little protection in the great bulk of the camel and in the banian-tree behind him.
Armstrong observed a Gotha biplane caught in a concentration of searchlight at 8,500 feet, with a Camel machine behind it.
As a youth, he had fought at the Battle of Tit when the French Camel Corps had broken forever the military power of the Ahaggar Tuareg.
With a good dollop of rancid camel butter right on top.
This could not have been so back in the days when the French Camel Corps ruled the land with its hand of iron.
And one by one the Tuareg and the Teda to the south and the Moors and Nemadi, yes, and even the Chaambra fell before the onslaughts of the Camel Corps and their wild-dog Foreign Legion.
In Kabara they were packed onto a camel and taken to Timbuktu and delivered to the missionary.
Since the French had pulled out their once dreaded Camel Corps there had been somewhat of a renaissance of violence between traditional foes.
