Sadd

She and Henry had "modernized" (a word Sadd refuses to use) only to the extent of the appliances; big windows and old-fashioned cabinets remained.

Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989

"Sadd" -- I'd only been half listening -- "answer me honestly: Is Tully right?

Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989

"Sadd," I touched his arm, "not only will I come back, I'm fishing right now for an invitation for next winter."

Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989

I took in this unlikely sequence as I tried to pin up my hair with one hand and watched another cousin, Charles Saddlier by name, but "Sadd" for as long as I could remember, walk up the path with the _Times_ under his arm.

Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989

Hence the "Sadd" on the Nile, the banks of grass and floating islands which "wall" the stream.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

"Sadd," I have said, is a wall or dyke, the term applied to the great dam of water - plants which obstructs the navigation of the Upper Nile, the lilies and other growths floating with the current from the (Victoria) Nyanza Lake.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Barcelona's David Villa is carried off on a stretcher after breaking his left leg against Al Sadd in the Club World Cup.

Football in brief 2011

Otherwise they lose their legitimacy, they become not heroic freedom fighters or well-paid concerned local citizens but anti-Sadd - excuse me, anti-Maliki government criminals.

Josh Mull: Does an Afghanistan Exit Strategy Hurt Our Allies? 2010

Extremists have targeted Iraqi Christians and their churches repeatedly since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq that toppled Sadd am Hussein and sparked a near civil war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Iraqi Christians Make Plans for a Silent Night Sam Dagher 2010

“Sadd,” I have said, is a wall or dyke, the term applied to the great dam of water — plants which obstructs the navigation of the Upper Nile, the lilies and other growths floating with the current from the (Victoria) Nyanza

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006