As I should not be on board the dahabeah in question, it would not matter to me personally if the boat were entirely manned by dragomans.
What he did learn was this: a dragoman had come, in a small boat, from a steam dahabeah to the Enchantress Isis while we were away at Kasr Ibrim.
It was almost certain that a steam dahabeah could not unseen have passed the Enchantress Isis at Abu Simbel in broad daylight, going back toward Assuan.
But Bedr thought that, if the Luxor plan had been a success, the steam dahabeah would have gone north from there instead of south.
And nobody knew if the steam dahabeah had hurried on before us, to anchor out of sight round the oblique façade of Abu Simbel.
There was a steam dahabeah moored not far off, if you remember, with Oriental decorations; so we fancied it must belong to an Egyptian or a Turk.
A steamdahabeah is what we want, so we won't be at the mercy of the wind.
There were no passengers on board the steam dahabeah Mamoudieh.
And I want you and your friend Fenton to go up Nile in charge of the splendid steam dahabeah I've bought to supplement the Mediterranean trip.
If there were a plot, as you are always imagining, the dahabeah would have to be near here, too," Monny laughed incredulously.
From a distance Anthony and I caught sight of the steamdahabeah seen near Kasr Ibrim, and we could hardly wait to get on shore.
I found myself staring wildly at Lucio, who, lying easily back in his deck-chair, was carolling joyously to the silent night and the blank expanse of sandy shore, in front of which our dahabeah rested motionless.
So the Isis was headed for home, and the good dahabeah raced along, borne by the strong current of the river, as if it knew it was on its way home.
There was a happy little party on the dahabeah when she set sail again, and many were the farewells to the kind people of the little village, who all came to see them off.
So he hailed it and as it slowed down he ordered several of his crew to launch the small boat which the dahabeah carried.
The boys had their heads together a lot these days, and at last it came out that it would be a splendid plan for all of them to take a trip up the Nile on the dahabeah of Nabul's father.
You remember the great traveller who went with our father in the dahabeah to some old city?
Just at that moment a party of learned looking men, Europeans, came up the bank from their dahabeah which had tied up just below the Isis.
He said that Ben Hassan, Nabul's father, was a good friend of his, that there was no more skilful captain nor better dahabeah on the Nile than his, and that everything could be arranged as they wished.
When they got to the dahabeah everybody was bustling about, putting the boat in order for the voyage.
When things quieted down breakfast was served on deck, after which the children hung on the railings and enjoyed watching the many things of interest on the shores as the strong northerly breeze carried the dahabeah swiftly along.
The dahabeah moves only when the wind is in the right direction, and to go from Cairo to Assouan requires the greater part of a lifetime.
When a traveller goes aboard a dahabeah he tears up the calendar and lets his watch run down.
The four young men who had chartered the dahabeah Rachel were Messrs.
At Rhoda on our return from the tombs of Beni Hasan we found that a dahabeah had drawn up near ours, on which were the old sage Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter.
When not walking through quivering bogs or actually shooting bird and beast, he, surrounded by the brown-faced and curious sailors, would seat himself on the deck of the dahabeah and skin and stuff the products of his sport.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dahabeah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
