"Bahrein" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the favorite fishing grounds for pearls is at Bahrein, on the Persian Gulf. The divers bring in the oysters from the fishing banks in the Gulf, and pile them on the shore in great heaps. Here they lie till they are rotted; and the stench that arises is enough to turn any inexperienced stomach. When the substance of ...
— Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... towards the Sinaitic Peninsula. What we know of the texts induces me, in common with H. Rawlinson, to place these countries on the shores of the Persian Gulf, between the mouth of the Euphrates and the Bahrein islands; possibly the Makse and the Melangitso of classical historians and geographers were the descendants of the people of Magan (Makan) and Milukhkha (Melugga), who had been driven towards the entrance to the Persian Gulf by some such event ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... and calm And o'er the Green Sea[215] palely shines, Revealing BAHREIN'S groves of palm And lighting KISHMA'S amber vines. Fresh smell the shores of ARABY, While breezes from the Indian sea Blow round SELAMA'S[216] sainted cape And curl the shining flood beneath,— Whose waves are rich with many a grape And cocoa-nut and flowery wreath Which pious seamen as ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |
