Marah

Oct. 30 in Marah, Afghanistan, from injuries suffered when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire during combat operations.

KIA KIA/BNR 2006

It was while the friends were conversing so kindly in Marah's room, and while Traverse was still engaged in arranging the doctor's books and papers that one of the men-servants rapped at the library door, and without waiting permission to come in, entered the room with every mark of terror in his look and manner.

The Hidden Hand 1888

Marah is almost universally believed to be what is now called Howarah, in Wady Amarah, about thirty miles from the place where the Israelites landed on the eastern shore of the Red Sea -- a distance quite sufficient for their march of three days.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

There he remained, and connected himself with his grandfather, who was called Marah, son of Luvee.

Antar : 1820

Moreover, what water they found was bitter, and not fit for drinking, and this in small quantities also; and as they thus traveled, they came late in the evening to a place called Marah, [1] which had that name from the badness of its water, for Mar denotes bitterness.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

'Marah' to-day, where 'the water is bitter,' and nothing but the wood of the tree that grows there can ever sweeten it, we shall be at

Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Alexander Maclaren 1868

I told her how I had taken compassion on the forlorn little creature, had purchased its grave, and of the white stone with "Marah" upon it.

The Tragedy of the Chain Pier Everyday Life Library No. 3 Charlotte M. Brame 1860

Stephen King once called Marah "probably the best rock band in

columbiatribune.com stories 2010

Tonight's double feature in the Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl (1983) and Michele O'Marah's Valley Girl (2002).

GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 3/22. 2007

As the price of oil has rocketed upwards in the past few weeks, the country has started freaking out and, as Marah Hardt writes at Change.org, in Alaska, state officials are pressuring the federal government to open up oil drilling there.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Greening the Royal Wedding is the Least of Our Worries The Media Consortium 2011