It contains about six thousand inhabitants, and has three market places, where the people of the country exchange dollars and durra for what they have need of.
On the first day of the moon Jamisalachar, the Selictar arrived from below, where he had been to collect durra for the army.
Before I left Sennaar, I have been more than once obliged to take a part of my horse's rations of durra to support nature.
During our stay here I engaged a man to swim over to the island opposite, to purchase some durra flour and dates.
The country, in the vicinity, contains many villages, and was covered with plantations of durrabeans and fields of cotton.
We were obliged to look among the rocks for shelter from the sun, each one arranging himself as well as he could to eat durrabread and drink warm water, and sleep as soundly as possible.
In short, all was managed so beautifully that in six more moons the coy Mabonga split the Durra straw with King Golo, amid vast rejoicings and in din almost equal to that which a wedding in Wales arouses.
A score of villages are dotted about in the clearings, and are surrounded by carefully cultivated fields, in which durra predominates.
The inhabitants do not allow a foot of their narrow domain to lie idle; they have cultivated wherever it is possible small plots of durra and barley, bersim and beds of vegetables.
Durra may be regarded as the principal corn plant of Africa.
These are still cultivated, and maize and durra have been added.
When durra fields are in the neighbourhood of the baboons' haunts, watchmen must be posted, or the animals work great havoc among the grain.
As the men were quiet in their huts, Susi replied, "I can hear from the cries that the people are scaring away a buffalo from their durra fields.
In ancient Egyptian tombs cakes of durra have been found, of concave shape, suggesting the use of such baking-slabs; here the cake was evidently prepared from coarsely-cracked grain.
In southern Europe the meal of various species of millet is used, and in India and China durra and other cereal grains are baked for food.
The Egyptians used for their bread, wheat, spelt, barley and durra (sorghum).
Accordingly, as the morning broke, the whole camp was in motion; and a noble sight it was to see durra after durra defile before their chief and hurry onwards at a rapid pace.
The common people of the Hedjaz use very little wheat; their bread is made either of durra or barley-flour, both of which are one- third cheaper than wheat; or they live entirely upon rice and butter.
With the Bedouins of the Eastern plain they exchange durra for cattle.
The better classes used bread made from wheat while the poorer people used cakes of barley or durra flour.
The durra was usually sown about April, as an after-crop when the wheat and the barley had been cut and taken off the ground.
Stas with astonishment observed that in some of the khors, in rocky fissures protected from rain, were supplies of durra and dates.
The durra and the supplies for the people, with the greatest stint, would suffice for two days more.
When they both returned a good fire was burning in the camp; water was bubbling in the utensils in which boiled durra grain, two guinea-fowls, and smoked strips of venison.
The fire was dying out and soon could be heard only the grinding of the durra in the camels' teeth.
There is famine in all the Sudân, and a sack of durra today costs more than a slave.
The Bedouins poured out durrafor the camels, after which, having mounted two unengaged camels, they rode in the direction of the Nile.
So he brought them with pride to his little sister, to whom he gave everything which he could secure; he sustained himself for a week almost exclusively upon durra taken from the camels.
They made land here, in the Durra Creek, and accordingly the church was built at the place where they set foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "durra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
