Arabian Romances and Folk-talesC. Scribner's sons, 1929 - 260 oldal |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Abu Katrina Abu Katrina's wife Abu-l-Khidr Ajaj al-Khidr Aleppo Alexander Allah Arabic asked baby Baldy bath beasts beautiful bedwins bowed brother bull cadi Cairo Cairoeen woman caravan cave City of Iram Clever Hasan companions Damascus daughter Dimna donkey emir eyes father Fatima fear fell Fountain of Youth gardener Gog and Magog gold Golden City governor grape-seller grapes hair Hajj Ali Zayyat Hamdiyyah says Hamid Hammud hand head heard heart huge husband jackal Jamilah jewels jinn jinni Kalamoon Kalila Karakoush Khadijah King Shaddad knew Kurd lady lion lived looked marid married Miracle Girl mother Nazilah never night palace pasha passed pearls pilgrimage Praised prayer queen reached replied royal Sa-idite sent sheep shepherd Shihab-ud-Din shouted silver sister stood stopped story suddenly sultan takbir Talking Horse tell thought told town turned Uns-ul-Juloos Uways al-Karani voice waiting walked woodcutter Yabrud young
Népszerű szakaszok
225. oldal - In literature the city is associated with the name of Ponce De Leon, and his search for the Fountain of Youth.
17. oldal - In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful ! There is no God but...
126. oldal - TF the despots of the East are notorious for their •*• arbitrary oppression, injustice and fickle caprice, then certainly Karakoush, the governor of Cairo in the days of the great Saladin, was the most notorious of them all. His name has come down in Syria as a by-word and a symbol for all that is arbitrary and unjust. "Like the judgment of Karakoush...
130. oldal - The soldiers clicked their heels together, saluted the exalted governor, and promptly went out to search for a short dyer. They stopped not till they found one, whom they dragged, without listening to his wild protests and pleadings, and hanged him on the door of the prison.
126. oldal - ... and the poor thief would not have broken his leg. To this the young lady answered with a smile: "My beauty is from Allah, but my red dress is from the dyer. It was he who dyed it red and made me distract the carpenter.
6. oldal - Who will go with me to find out who these people are, and what they are doing here at this unholy hour of the night?
226. oldal - Ganges in the east to the Danube in the west, and from the wild steppes of Turkestan to the burning sands of Abyssinia.