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...e, an uncouth shape appeared 75 Upon a dromedary, mounted high. He seemed an Arab of the Bedouin tribes: A lance he bore, and underneath one arm A sto... ...his freight Which the new comer carried through the waste 85 Could mean, the Arab told me that the stone (To give it in the language of the dream) Was... ...ren of the earth By deluge, now at hand. No sooner ceased The song, than the Arab with calm look declared That all would come to pass of which the voi... ...become the knight Whose tale Cervantes tells; yet not the knight, But was an Arab of the desert too; Of these was neither, and was both at once. 125 H... ... 140 68 The Prelude of 1850 Full often, taking from the world of sleep This Arab phantom, which I thus beheld, This semi Quixote, I to him have given... ...g possessed, A little yellow, canvas covered book, A slender abstract of the Arabian tales; And, from companions in a new abode, When first I learnt, t... ...not, think not, what they do. The tales that charm away the wakeful night In Araby, romances; legends penned For solace by dim light of monkish lamps;... ... What grandeur not unfelt, what pregnant show Of beauty, meets the sun burnt Arab’s eye: And, as the sea propels, from zone to zone, 750 Its currents;...

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...followed on the heels of the cavalry that occupied Cairo in ’82, what time Arabi Pasha called himself king, who had seen the first miserable work roun... ...t bank and emp- tied of all save the sick and a few men to guard them. The Arab orator ceased his outcries, and his friends howled. ‘They look like th... ... bear any resemblance to a face, and that Torpenhow had gone down under an Arab whom he had tried to ‘collar low,’ and was turning over and over with ... ...imself clear of his enemy, and rose, wiping his thumb on his trousers. The Arab, both hands to his forehead, screamed aloud, then snatched up his spea... ...ode down the laggards. Beyond the lines of the dead, a broad blood-stained Arab spear cast aside in the retreat lay across a stump of scrub, and beyon... ...—his marriages with many Afri- can princesses, his shameless betrayal, for Arab wives, of an army corps to the Mahdi, his tattooment by skilled operat... ...rmities of the English tongue hemmed in his rage, he sought consolation in Arabic, which is expressly designed for the use of the afflicted. He was no... ...e in the Soudan. A soldier had been nearly hacked in two by a broad-bladed Arab spear. For one instant the man felt no pain. Looking down, he saw that... ...e waiting have sent Dick to the whiskey more than anything else.’ ‘How the Arab who cut his head open would grin if he knew!’ ‘He’s at perfect liberty...

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... also red, but with a green border and with a white crescent in it. For an Arab owned her, and a Syed at that. Hence the green border on the flag. He ... ...t “The charitable man is the friend of Allah”? Excellent (and picturesque) Arab owner, about whom one needed not to trouble one’s head, a most excelle... ..., and all bigger than herself, she looked like a creature of high breed—an Arab steed in a string of cart-horses. A voice behind me said in a nasty eq...

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... pointing out, in the obscurity, the hoar mass of the chimney, seemed some Arab guide, showing the cobwebbed mausoleum of the great god Apis. “This is...

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...er. The second group, as we have classed them, terminating with Philip the Arab, commences with Commodus. This un- worthy prince, although the son of ... ...e course of the campaign; and to him suc- ceeded, as prætorian prefect, an Arabian officer, called Philip. The innocent boy, left without friends, was... ...the two Gordians, Pupienus and Balbinus, the third Gordian, and Philip the Arab. 142 The Cæsars In looking back at this series of Cæsars, we are horr... ...l over- throw of Forum Terebronii, we may fix upon the reign of Philip the Arab, [who naturalized himself in Rome by the appellation of Marcus Julius,... ...erally the characteristics of another. This, however, may be a mere * This Arab emperor reigned about five years; and the jubi- lee celebration occurr... ...ccurred in his second year. Another circum- stance gives importance to the Arabian, that, according to one tradition, he was the first Christian emper... ...y highest. The immediate predecessor of Decius upon the throne, Philip the Arab, was known to be a disciple of the new faith; and amongst the nobles o...

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...ature’s ordinance, there had appeared to me a face from the grave. Kitty’s Arab had gone through the ‘rickshaw: so that my first hope that some woman ... ...ng, Jack, and I’ll race you to the Res- ervoir buildings!” Her wiry little Arab was off like a bird, my Waler following close behind, and in this orde... ...e. The ‘rickshaw was directly in the middle of the road; and once more the Arab passed through it, my horse following. “Jack! Jack dear! Pease forgive...

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...trickland, and he was in old Y oughal’s employ, attached to Miss Youghal’s Arab. The poor fellow was suffering for an English smoke, and knew that wha... ...hoofs of his horse like a Lon- don coachman! The turnout of Miss Youghal’s Arab was a wonder and a delight. Strickland—Dulloo, I mean—found his reward... ...kka-ponies with hogged manes, and a switch-tailed demirep of a mare called Arab because she has a kink in her flag. Racing leads to the shroff quicker... ...e laugh, and T rejago, knowing that, for all practical pur- poses, the old Arabian Nights are good guides, went forward to the window, and whispered t...

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...allowed they was dates, because he said they answered the description in the Arabian Nights and the other books. Of course they mightn’t be, and they ... ... and he begun to tell about it out of Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 53 the Arabian Nights. CHAPTER X. THE TREASURE HILL TOM SAID IT HAPPENED LIK... ...ot to climb fences till we git tired — just frontier after frontier — Egypt, Arabia, Hindostan, and so on, and they’ll all whack on a duty, and so you... ...d such like monstrous giants, that made Jim’s wool rise, and a raft of other Arabian Nights folks, which the half of them never done the things they l... ... very identical spot the prince flew from on the Bronze Horse. It was in the Arabian Night times, he said. Somebody give the prince a bronze horse wit... ...e clumb down to the hole where you go into the tunnel, and went in with some Arabs and candles, and away in there in the middle of the pyramid we foun... ... try the case of the old olives and the new ones, and said it was out of the Arabian Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 77 Nights, and he would tell me a... ... and said we must scour around and see if we could roust out one in Egypt or Arabia or around in some of these countries, but the guide said no, it wa...

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...y of the little nothings which women perceive with the intelligence of the Arab sage in Zadig, that the husband was faithfully devoted. These two hand...

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...ans- parent flesh-tints, and the brother, whose attitude promised a street arab in the future, touched the fancy with pathos by its almost graceful co...

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...became a solemn compact made with himself, an oath after the manner of the Arabs among whom he had lived; for among them a vow is a kind of contract m...

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...e village, he could feel that where he was they were all looking. When the Arabs came rushing like things gone mad, and he had received his wound, he ...

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...rying the new horse; a tallish piebald, bought 66 Robert Louis Stevenson from the circus; he proved steady and safe, but in very bad condition, and n... ...re when I arrived; but presently it was observed that one of the men was going cold. He was a magnificent Samoan, very dark, with a noble aqui- line c...

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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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.... But why should that delight me? Had he been one of the Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and had paid down his eye as the price of his criminal cur... ...upon that fluctuating mirror—rising (like the mocking mirrors of mirage in Arabian deserts) from the fens of death-most of all are reflected the sweet... ...mrah, which is not found in Century Dictionary, is itself really plural of Arabic amir (ameer), a commander, noble- man. 15 23 THE 6TH OF EDWARD LONGS... ... three Calenders, sons of kings, will be found in most selections from the Arabian Nights. A Calender is one of an order of Dervishes founded in the f... ...f an order of Dervishes founded in the fourteenth century by an Andalusian Arab; they are wanderers who preach in market places and live by alms. 40 1... ...um, Oct. 6, 1888, quoted by Hart, the word is explained as a corruption of Arabic burghul. 101 30 ENGLISH PRINCE, REGENT OF FRANCE: John, Duke of Bedf...

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... fur- nished the sides of the room, at the end of which sparkled the brass arabesques inlaid in tortoise-shell of the first tall clock that reappeared... ...sently laid before him the fatal memorandum which, like the slipper in the Arabian Nights, the luckless man was fated to meet at every turn. “Who gave... ... and earrings were all what is called Berlin iron-work; but these delicate arabesques were made in Vienna, and seemed to have been fashioned by the fa... ... gold lace, cheese, men, women, and children; they are a conglomeration of Arabs, Jews, Genoese, Genevese, Greeks, Lombards, and Parisians, suckled by...

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... a strange country,” said Madame de la Baudraye. “It still shows traces of Arab manners.” “Oh!” said the journalist, laughing, “the mania for cutting ...

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...ithout beauty is infinite. Is not this the moral of the fable on which the Arabian Nights are based? An ugly wife of Henry VIII. might have defied the... ...stible vocation. ‘ And I see you recog- nize as I do,’ he added, ‘that gum arabic, sugar, and starch, reduced to powder, each yield a substance absolu... ...at grows out of habit, like that of a workman for his creative tool, or an Arab for the horse that gives him freedom. Marguerite studied the signs of ...

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...on, there were moments when rest was pleasant to her. As the most hardened Arab that ever careered across the desert over the hump of a dromedary like...

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...hese very Alps, for example, will be populous with homes, serving the vast arable levels of Upper Italy. So we shall see, as we come down by our littl... ...her like bashful yokels, to the library, and the old gentleman reading the Arabian Nights in the armchair in the corner glances up at me with a sudden... ...ecline and Fall, and Mahomet, instead of embodying the dense prejudices of Arab ignorance, opened his eyes upon an intellectual horizon al- ready near... ...qually spacious and equally regardless of tongues and peoples is the great Arabic- speaking religion of Mahomet. Both Christendom and Is- lam are inde...