Abomey

How to use Abomey in a sentence

• Behanzin set fire to Abomey (entered by the French troops on the 17th of November) and fled north.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 | Various

• During nine months of the year the climate is tempered by a sea-breeze, which is felt as far inland as Abomey 735 (60 m.).

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 | Various

• Da was, two hundred and fifty years ago, the king of the city of Abomey.

  By Sheer Pluck | G. A. Henty

• On the sixth the sacrifice was over:—the divinity was appeased, and quiet reigned again in the streets of Abomey.

  Captain Canot | Brantz Mayer