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Example sentences for: basil

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For a particularly useful insight into the evolution of al Qaeda-written by an early Bin Ladin associate, Adel Batterjee, under a pseudonym- see Basil Muhammad, Al Ansar al Arab fi Afghanistan (The Arab volunteers in Afghanistan) (Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) and World Association of Muslim Youth, 1991).
His Ichabod is a little boy making like Basil Rathbone.
The empire was further diminished by the loss of North Africa and Italy, and was brought to the brink of civil war by the Iconoclastic Crisis, before enjoying another brief golden age under Basil II (976–1025).
For those who know their name books, it falls somewhere between Basil Cottle's Names (1983) and my own Guinness Book of Names (4th edition 1989).
Basil, thyme, and oregano are the most common, though you can also buy mixed sachets.