Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Ship of the Desert

The camel.

Three thousand camels his rank pastures fed,
Arabia's wandering ships, for traffic bred.

G. Sandys: Paraphrase from Job (1610).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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