The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Volume 3 |
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Abd Allah abode Aboo Seer acquainted alighted Allah answered Arabs arose art thou aught Baghdad beauty became beheld bird Breslau edition brother brought Cairo ceased companions courser damsel daughter desire door dost thou Efreet Egypt Emeer Moosa entered Es-Sindibád eunuch eyes father fear female slaves fish hand Hasan hath heard heart island jewels Jinn Joodar journey Khaleefeh King Bedr Básim knew land lord Maaroof Maghrabee Magian master memlooks merchant mother mountain mule name be exalted night NOTE old woman pair of saddle-bags palace Persian pieces of gold proceeded Queen Queen Noor recited rejoiced replied returned saluted saying seal-ring Seyf el-Mulook sheykh Abd ship story Suleymán Sumatra thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thousand pieces thyself took unto Verily verses voyage weeping wept Wezeer wherefore whereupon wife wilt thou wondered words young
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Page 659 - Now, while I was looking at her, says IbrAheem, lo, a glance of her eye was directed towards me, and she saw me; and when she beheld me, her countenance changed, and she said to her female slaves, Sing ye until I return to you. Then she took a knife half a cubit in length, and came towards me, saying, There is no strength nor power but in God, the High, the Great!
Page 330 - Alee, and with all the other favourites of God. God is our sufficieney ; and excellent is the Guardian. And there is no strength nor power but in God, the High, the Great. O God, 0 our Lord, O Thou liberal of pardon, O Thou most bountiful of the most bountiful. O God. Amen.
Page 90 - The people of the island report that at a certain season of the year, an extraordinary kind of bird, which they call a rukh, makes its appearance from the southern region. In form it is said to resemble the eagle, but it is incomparably greater in size; being so large and strong as to seize an elephant with its talons, and to lift it into the air, from whence it lets it fall to the ground, in order that when dead it may prey upon the carcase.
Page 83 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 639 - King his father-in-law and their family resided in the most happy state and in the practice of good deeds until they were visited by the terminator of delights and the separator of companions, and they all died.
Page 94 - ... surrounded by precipices, amongst which the diamonds are found; and here many eagles and white storks, attracted by the snakes on which they feed, are accustomed to make their nests. The persons who are in quest of the diamonds take their stand near the mouths of the caverns, and from thence cast down several pieces of flesh, which the eagles and storks pursue into the valleys, and carry off with them to the tops of the rocks. Thither the men immediately ascend, drive the birds away, and recovering...
Page 733 - ... and said to them, Bring ye my children. Accordingly they brought them to her quickly ; and they were three male children : one of them walked, and one crawled, and one was at the breast. And when they brought them, she took them and placed them before the King, and, having kissed the ground, said...
Page 4 - O porter, know that my story is wonderful, and I will inform thee of all that happened to me and befell me before I attained this prosperity and sat in this place wherein thou seest me. For I attained not this prosperity and this place save after severe fatigue and great trouble and many terrors. How often have I endured fatigue and toil in my early years ! I have performed seven voyages, and connected with each voyage is a wonderful tale, that would confound the mind.
Page 194 - Thereupon we agreed with him that he should repair to Cairo in the disguise of a Jewish merchant, so that if one of us perished in the lake, he might take his mule and saddle-bags and give the bearer an hundred dinars.
Page 371 - Fakrash could not propose to marry me to some one who has a husband already," he thought. " Still, she may be a widow ! " To his relief, however, the conclusion ran thus ; " Seyf-el-Mulook lived with Bedeea-el-Jemal a most pleasant and agreeable life . . . until they were visited by the terminator of delights and the separator of companions.