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... district, the southern Thiyyas converted to Muslims, and created a version Mappillas, with possible differences from the Mappillas of north Malabar (Arab blood mix). None of them carry lower caste identification, either anthropologically or by demeanour, other than what the feudal local vernacular enforces. ...

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...lf to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in May 1921 in the course of the anti-Jewish Arab riots known as the “massacres of 1921″. Brenner published his second book, In winter, in 1904. It is a collection of 4 stories about hardships of simple poor Jews living in small towns in Eastern Europe, at the time of a...

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...nch, pert as a feuilleton, impudent and light-fingered as any Paris street-arab. He had been a source of honor and profit to a well-known English lord...

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...niform he was evi- dently a schoolboy, and the book he was reading was the Arabian Nights. Small wonder that he was deeply absorbed. 120 A Woman of T... ...m, I have a right to command with the despotism of neces- sity. I want the Arab’s hospitality. Either I and my secret must be inviolable, or open the ...

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...children after they can walk lest they should walk into mis- chief, though Arab boys make their sisters carry them, as our own spoiled children someti... ...r- rors. Yet when that same lady discovered that I had found a copy of The Arabian Nights and was devouring it with avid- ity, she was horrified, and ... ..., it should not be told that Allah is a false god set up by the T urks and Arabs, who will all be damned for taking that liberty; but it should be tol... ...should be told that many English people think so, and that many T urks and Arabs think the converse about English people. It should be taught that All... ...e taught that Allah is simply the name by which God is known to T urks and Arabs, who are just as eligible for salvation as any Christian. Further, th... ...erlain. I should probably have read Maria Monk myself if I had not had the Arabian Nights and their like to occupy me better. In art, children, like a...

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...ey have poetry in them; they are valiant; they are hospitable to teach the Arab a lesson: I do believe their life is their friend’s at need—seriously,... ...tary. Dictate. He has a bold free hand and’ll supply all the fiorituri and arabesques necessary to the occasion running.’ She gazed at Patrick as if t...

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...ns of 1830 and 1848, the Berlin Congress, the putsch of 1991 in Moscow). Astrological, historical and geographical coincidences are found between the Arab revolutions of 2011 on the one side and the revolutions of 1848, the independence movements in the Spanish colonies, the social movements of 1968 and World War II on the other. The book is addressed to persons interested...

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...lf to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in May 1921 in the course of the anti-Jewish Arab riots known as the massacres of 1921. Brenner was very much an experimental writer, both in his use of language and in literary form. With Modern Hebrew still in its infancy, Brenner improvised with an intruiging mixture...

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...ructur ă gramatical ă asem ăn ătoare cu hindi, dar multe cuvinte persane şi arabe, plus scriere arab ă (mul ţumesc se zice shukria, iar rug ăciune n... ...i expresie în englez ă: Happy New Year, Thank you. baba = tata (ca-n arab ă), ma = mama Un simbol hindi (sawastik) pentru bun ăstare p... ...ntivelor în limba hindi se formeaz ă la sfâr şit: kitab = carte (în urdu şi arab ă se zice la fel), kitabei = c ăr ţi. Genitivul se formeaz ă cu p... ...ea cam p ăr ăginit ă; - tomba lui Bu Halima (sec. XVI); - poarta Seraiului Arab (1560-1561) unde-au locuit me şterii persani care au construit tomb...

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...s of religion. WHAT IS RELIGION? 9 10 same era, as well as with organized Arab religious movements, and with a very old, long-standing Mesopotamian r... ...ut were relatively independent of each other. Much the same is true of the Arab culture of the period. Mesopotamian religion was, like the Egyptian, o... ...k II, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1948. Egyptian + Palestinian + Arab + Mesopotamian Cultures Hebrew Hebrew + Zoroastrian + Greek + Gnostic ... ...ebrew Hebrew + Zoroastrian + Greek + Gnostic Judaism Christian Christian + Arab Christianity Islam Figure 1: An example of interrelated religious syst... ...ts from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with organized Arab religious movements, and with a very old, long-standing Mesopotamian r... ...ut were relatively independent of each other. Much the same is true of the Arab culture of the period. Mesopotamian religion was, like the Egyptian, o... ...th an ideological, and to some degree organizational, sense was mixed with Arab traditions, and promulgated primarily by Muhammad, c. AD 600, who clai... ...t except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to 86. These letters in Arabic spell the Hebrew name of God. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 128 tell. 87 ... ...outh, and robed and haloed. (This dress has raised theories of shipwrecked Arabic or Asian sailors.) It was the Wandjinas who formed the landscape in ...

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...rge bulb with long flat leaves? Do not touch it if your hands are cut; the Arabs use it as blisters for their horses. Is that the same sort? No, take ... ...nother, and soon go out to watch while turbaned, blue-breeched, barelegged Arabs dig holes for the land telegraph posts on the following principle: on... ... screw the earthenware insulators on the posts, strain the wire, and order Arabs about by the generic term of Johnny. I find W– has nothing for me to ... ...long chibouques continue to march solemnly without breaking them; a little Arab in one dirty rag pokes fun at two splendid little T urks with bril- li...

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... gladness stirs my heart, But tim’rously beginning to rejoice Like a blind Arab, that from sleep doth start In lonesome tent, I listen for thy voic... ...’s Apparition and Evanishment. An Allegorical Romance 1833 Like a lone Arab, old and blind, Some caravan had left behind, Who sits beside a ru...

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...which it is made to support. The estate of Asbies contained fifty acres of arable land, six 23 Thomas de Quincey of meadow, and a right of commonage.... ...n disagreeable; but in Lamb, thin even to meagreness, spare and wiry as an Arab of the desert, or as Thomas Aquinas, wasted by scholastic vigils, the ... ...urther advantage, according to Goethe’s own illustra- tion, that, like the Arabian thousand and one nights, as con- ducted by Sultana Scheherezade, “n...

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...ace, full of genii and fairies of the remotest possible connexion with the Arab jinn, the whole is redeemed by the truth to nature of the sole dupe in...

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...Djibouti; Egypt; Iran; Iraq; Jordan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Morocco; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; West Bank and Gaza; Y...

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...at im- mense desert, yellow and tranquil, in which cam- els, gazelles, and Arab vagabonds roam about— where, in the rare and transparent atmosphere, t...

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...pty guests, before he dies? Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab’s or the Indian’s? When I think of the benefactors of the race, whom... ...e a singular allowance? — that our furniture should be more complex than the Arab’s, in proportion as we are morally and intellectually his superiors!... ...ne leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty five feet on level ground. With... ...o compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable a... ...ous fishes, they are so foreign to the streets, even to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life. They possess a quite dazzling and transcenden...

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...nhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyrami... ... velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cam- eos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinit...

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...51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages: 52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, 53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah, 54... ... Bohan the son of Reuben, 18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah: 19 And the border passed along...

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...oun- tains, donkey and all, which would have been the devil. Have finished Arabian Nights and Edinburgh book, and am a free man. Next address, Poste R... ... the reviews I ever had; the one I liked best be- fore that was –’s on the Arabians. These two are the flow- ers of the collection, according to me. T... ...moon- light nights we have are incredible; love, poetry and music, and the Arabian Nights, inhabit just my corner of the world – nest there like mavis... ...EAR HENLEY, – We are all to pieces in health, and heavily handicapped with Arabs. I have a dreadful cough, whose attacks leave me aetat. 90. I never l... ... a dreadful cough, whose attacks leave me aetat. 90. I never let up on the Arabs, all the same, and rarely get less than eight pages out of hand, thou... ...e Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 all, I should be nearly through this Arabian desert; so can tackle something fresh. – Yours ever, R. L. S. Lette... ... to appear in April; 291 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 More New Arabian Nights as soon as possible. Moreover, I am neck deep in Wellington;... ...olice-Officer Cole is the only man that I see to admire. I dedicate my New Arabs to him and Cox, in default of other great public characters. – Y ours... ...ago; but it was only day before yesterday that I settled the new volume of Arabs. However, for the future, you and the sons of the deified Scribner ar...

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...nhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyrami... ... velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cam- eos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinit... ...iece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into...

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...d promised that, if he worked well at Eton, he should have a lovely little Arab, that was being trained by a dealer he knew; and that another year, Fu...

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...llen in the brightest weather—that their slave gain turned to curses, as the Arabian Wizard’s money turned to leaves, and that no good ever came of it... ...sands years, keep Blink Bonny jibbing at the post, and let us have no start! Arab drums, powerful of old to summon Genii in the desert, sound of yours...

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...people’s names, some with a Greek or Latin word, or one of the curious old Arabic signs, for which her father had always a turn, having, as his mother... ...restore them, and would have climbed a mountain in search of it, as in the Arabian tale; but her feet were cold, heavy, and immovable, and she found t... ...177 Yonge “No such thing. You’ll come to the meet yourself, Babie, on your Arab.” “Not she,” said Bobus, in his teasing voice. “She’ll be governessed ... ...ne’s of the opening of the AEneid, also one from the French, by Sydney, on Arab customs, and all Lord Fordham had been able to collect about Hippo, al... ...y I ask you for. I want some pearls, and I must have that duck of a little Arab. Uncle George, how soon can I have it?” “We must go through the Probat... ...all have to wait ever so long,” said the young lady. “And I do so want the Arab. It is a real love, and Allen would say so.” “I have another letter fo...

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...n, and for two long years Sixte du Chatelet led a wandering life among the Arab tribes of the desert, who sold and resold their captive—his talents be...

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...mself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command.With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate. That rival is crippled, f...

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...geologist, specializing in finding oil. Soule’ was a genius at it. All of the Arab countries and many U.S. oil companies had hired him, and paid him... ...t Hussein was fanatical. If he couldn't defeat Iran, he wanted to control the Arab world and all of its oil resources. He had tried fiercely to tal... ... panicked. A sly smile crept over his face. "I have arranged for ten American Arabs, who have been in the U.S. for many years and who have no connec... ... the bombings. I want the Americans to believe the bombings were conspired by Arabs. It will throw the oil business into complete chaos. They will n... ...s he was told. The big man stared at him. Soule's clothes were non-descript Arabic. "I will kill you, if that is what you want. He said quietly. "...

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... -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater i...

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...blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the... ...of Muhammad (c570–632), Allah and the laws of Islam held sway:  From Arabia across northern Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle E... ...e Punjab on the India-Pakistan border. For more than three decades, the Arabs had been in control of Samarkand—a wealthy Central Asia trading stat... ... the king beheaded. The dead king‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with... ...side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal clash between Arab and Chinese forces. In the summer of 751 AD, the Arab forces ended... ...outing the T‘ang Dynasty‘s Army in the historic five-day Battle of Talas. Arabs capture Chinese papermakers In their flight along the crowded, ro... ...rd the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled out from among the fleeing refugees a number of Chinese pape... ...r let them copy Greek and Persian writings and introduce science into the Arab world. Many of the Thousand and One Night Tales are set in Baghdad dur... ... After the Battle of Talas in 751 robbed China of its papermaking secret, Arab conquests continued across northern Africa to Spain, throughout most ...

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...ffered his converts. Mohammed said that Islam was the true religion because it dated from the first born son of Abraham, Ishmael, born of the Arab s... ... religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the generals and kings, the popes and the caliphs. Historical records relate that in 670 AD the Arab c... ...aghreb region of North Africa, establishing a number of military posts. By 698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs ...

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...ty, he quitted the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He be... ...izing, waiting—an immense Free-Masonry. Once this world-spread band was an Arabian clan—a little nation alone and outlying amongst the mighty monarchi... ... in his countenance one or more of these characteristics of his peer- less Arab race. “How beautiful they are!” mused Codlingsby, as he surveyed these... ...he shadow did which followed you)—of white velvet, painted with flow- ers, arabesques, and classic figures, by Sir William Ross, J. M. W. Turner, R. A... ...s head, and Bugaboo went at it like a shot. He was riding his famous white Arab, and turned quite pale as I came up and went over the horse and the Em... ...e a nobler figure than the leader of the troop—mounted on a splendid black Arab: he was as tall, very nearly, as myself; he wore a steel cap and a shi... ...ncertainties of war! To strap on my sabre and my accoutrements—to mount my Arab charger—to drink off what O’Gawler had left of the sangaree—and to gal... ... ceiling; coffee, introduced by Peter the Hermit, after his excursion into Arabia, and tea such as only Bohemia could produce, circulated amidst the f... ... furiously, irresistibly on! Brave horse! gallant steed! snorting child of Araby! On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; a...

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...ts, not it, Are but a narrow pound.’ Said Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her Arab eyes, ‘There’s not a man or woman Born under the skies Dare match in l... ...h different things at school. SOLOMON AND THE WITCH AND thus declared that Arab lady: ‘Last night, where under the wild moon 176 THE COLLECTED POEMS ... ...ntasy decrees We shift about — all that great glory spent — Like some poor Arab tribesman and his tent. We were the last romantics — chose for theme T... ...feat; but I Who have accepted the Byzantine faith, That seems unnatural to Arabian minds, Think when I choose a bride I choose for ever; And if her ey... ...tative dream, Even those truths that when my bones are dust Must drive the Arabian host. The voice grew still, And she lay down upon her bed and slept... ...uty is a storm tossed banner; Under it wisdom stands, and I alone — Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone — Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost In the co...

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... glow; No more my locks in ringlets curl’d diffuse The costly sweetness of Arabian dews, Nor braids of gold the varied tresses bind, That fly disorder... ...e, (The soil that arts and infant letters bore,) His conquering tribes the Arabian prophet draws, And saving ignorance enthrones by laws. See Christia... ...nuine than any of the Cleopatras. This royal mummy, being stolen by a wild Arab, was purchased by the consul of Alexandria, and transmitted to the Mus...

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...s, cloths, home, etc. The World Nations Forum was directed to carry out severe sanctions on Karaq, Karan, Kasyria, Pastan, Kafaghanistan and Masud Arab so that these 12 countries would rely on Zulimistan and call it for help and Zulimistan would be then able to use them according to its desires, needs and policies. *****************< *****************< Chapter-2 ...

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...d, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its... ...red years earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax ... ...sician,Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in th... ... Bin Ladin. Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.We have relied on a mix of common sense... ...lf-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allow... ... 9:12 AM Page 48 inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the... ... Ummah—thus was a Sunni institution that continued until 1924, first under Arab and eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back a... ...to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula thr... ...din offers an extreme view of Islamic history designed to appeal mainly to Arabs and Sunnis. He draws on fundamentalists who blame the eventual destru...

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...forth. Louis Lambert’s advent was the subject of a romance wor- thy of the Arabian Nights. I was in the fourth class at the time—among the little boys... ...e Gospel, in one book, the Koran, adapting them to the apprehension of the Arab race. Finally, Swedenborg bor- rowed from Magianism, Brahmanism, Buddh... ... the fabulous achievements of chivalry and the most fantastic tales of the Arabian Nights. I can believe now in the most fantastic excesses of love, a...

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...ry air, Sleep seized him and he passed into a dream. 70 He saw before him an Arabian waste, A desert, and he fancied that himself Was sitting there in... ...great joy a man was at his side, Upon a dromedary mounted high. He seemed an arab of the Bedouin tribes; A lance he bore, and underneath one arm A sto... ...ange freight Which the newcomer carried through the waste 85 Could mean, the arab told him that the stone— To give it in the language of the dream— Wa... ...rth By deluge now at hand. No sooner ceased The song, but with calm look the arab said 100 That all was true, that it was even so As had been spoken, ... ...s the very knight Whose tale Cervantes tells, yet not the knight, But was an arab of the desert too, 125 Of these was neither, and was both at once. H... ...e.’ Full often, taking from the world of sleep 140 Book Fifth Books 71 This arab phantom which my friend beheld, This semi Quixote, I to him have giv... ...t that time, A little yellow canvass covered book, A slender abstract of the Arabian Tales; 485 And when I learned, as now I first did learn From my co... ...not, think not, what they do. The tales that charm away the wakeful night In Araby—romances, legends penned For solace by the light of monkish lamps; ... ...—he beheld 166 The Prelude of 1805 A vision, and he loved the thing he saw. Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wrou...

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...But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” ... ...h- teen wide, and fifteen high. A luminous ceiling, deco- rated with light arabesques, shed a soft clear light over all the marvels accumulated in thi... ...sight. Its course was N.N.E., in the direction of the Sea of Oman, between Arabia and the Indian Peninsula, which serves as an outlet to the Persian G... ... you suppose, then?” “I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps... ...lus soon sank under the waves of that part of the sea. We passed along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance of six miles, its und... ...bruary, we entered the Straits of Bab-el-mandeb, the name of which, in the Arab tongue, means The Gate of Tears. To twenty miles in breadth, it is onl... ...it is very dangerous during the Etesian winds and in the rainy season. The Arabian Edrisi portrays it under the name of the Gulf of Colzoum, and relat... ...canal to the waters of the Nile across the plain of Egypt, looking towards Arabia. It took four days to go up this canal, and it was so wide that two ... ...ch a passage exists?” “Yes; a subterranean passage, which I have named the Arabian Tunnel. It takes us beneath Suez and opens into the Gulf of Pelusiu...

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...gineer, who would pat him on his back, and weep over him, and call him his Arab steed. (The boys in the shops where he was built used to read wonderfu... ...i- neer was kneeling down among his drivers, but he did not call 007 his “Arab steed,” nor cry over him, as the engineers did in the newspapers. He j... ...nd dignity, from Mhow to Peshawar, from Allahabad to Multan; prize ponies, Arabs, Syrian, Barb, country-bred, Deccanee, Waziri, and Kabul ponies of ev... ..., and, so far, had swept the board. “Let’s see,” said a soft gold-coloured Arab, who had been playing very badly the day before, to The Maltese Cat; “... ... pulling a vegetable-cart. I don’t race. I play the game.” “Oh! “ said the Arab, cocking his tail and swaggering off. “Keep yourselves to yourselves,”... ...kept the ball hanging, and made ‘em lather for nothing. Who goes out? T wo Arabs and a couple of country-breds! That’s bad. What a comfort it is to wa... ...Grey Dawn, giving to the girth and ad- miring his well-set shoulders. “You Arabs can’t gallop fast enough to keep yourselves warm—that’s what Kitty me... ...h mulish ears. Macnamara took Faiz-Ullah, a handy, short-backed little red Arab with a long tail, and Hughes mounted Benami, an old and sullen brown b... ...e did not behave better next time The Maltese Cat promised to pull out his Arab tail by the roots and —eat it. There was no time to talk, for the thir...

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...th respectability. A street-dog was once adopted by a lady. While still an Arab, he had done as Arabs 90 Robert Louis Stevenson do, gambolling in the... ...pare with these, and that was on the night when I brought back with me the Arabian Entertainments in the fat, old, double- columned volume with the pr... ...lity of incident? often, if you will, impossible; often of the order of an Arabian story; and yet all based in human nature. For if you come to that, ... ...re, that captivates in childhood, and still de- lights in age – I mean the Arabian Nights – where you shall look in vain for moral or for intellectual... ...d is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his romances. The e...

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...ssion. He is now upon a larger venture, promising us at last that complete Arabian Nights to which we have all so long looked forward. CHARLES OF ORLE... ...y poet, with a smack of the Paris student, and a smack of the Paris street arab, posting along the highways, in rain or sun, among the green fields an... ...ho should happen to be a man of genius; his levity that of a bitter street arab, full of bread. On a first reading, the pathetic passages preoccupy th...