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The Arab's stern, pitiless countenance spoke plainer than words. Mercy was an unknown word in his vocabulary. "Spare us, spare us!" moaned Sir Arthur, coming forward a pace or two and making as though he would fall on his knees. "I have spoken," cried Makar harshly. "Words will avail ye nothing." He made a signal to the guards, who at once closed in on the wretched captives and led them away.
I heard the Arab's proposal to you, and your answer thereto yet, when you returned to your people, what would have become of me?" She was but voicing his own thoughts of many and many a time before. Yet now Laurence felt almost startled. Was it the clear intuition which rightly or wrongly is believed to accompany the hour of dissolution?
And the Pisans answered in spite and envy, 'They are our land Arabs. The King answered wisely, "It does not appear to me Arab's money; you Pisans, what golden money have you got?" Then they were confused, and knew not what to answer. So he asked if there was any Florentine among them. And there was found a merchant from the other-side-Arno, by name Peter Balducci, discreet and wise.
He leapt to his feet, but the Arab sheik was as quick and, springing up, also seized him, at the same time drawing his knife and uttering a loud shout. Gregory grasped the Arab's wrist, and without hesitation snatched his own knife from the sash, and drove it deep into his assailant's body. The latter uttered another loud cry for help, and a score of men rushed from behind the tents.
"Ciel! we are in the agony of suspense," declares the Frenchman, never once taking his eyes off the Arab's face. "Great is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet. I am but as a grain of sand on the sea-shore. Let the praise be his." With this preliminary, Mustapha Cadi gives his plan of action briefly.
For it was that mean old Arab's way of going around a thing, like a lawyer, and saying indirectly what he did not dare say directly, that there was a certain young man that day traveling down the Tigris River that might better be at home in America. I didn't tell him I could see it. I told him his story reminded me of one, and I told it to him quick.
"With eyes glowing like an Arab's." "Looking at his hair, you might take him for a German." "He is neither a Roman, nor an Arab, nor a German," someone exclaimed, laughing; "he is the carpenter of Nazareth." "The same who turned water into wine?" "There are lots of stories about him. We know plenty of them." "It is said that Herod's murder of the innocents was on his account."
Each bears on her head a large jug of red clay ornamented with fanciful designs, the clay resembling that of which the bowl of an Arab's pipe is made. When these jugs are empty the women carry them in a pretty way inclining to one side, as the French soldier wears his képi. This gives to their walk an air of ease and nonchalance that is extremely graceful.
At the sight of her, I stood stock still, and turned the seal of my Arab's ring inwards; whereupon Hecate smote upon the ground with her dragon's foot, and caused a vast chasm to open, wide as the mouth of Hell. Into this she presently leaped, and was lost to sight.
One evening, looking at his camels feeding, he said, "Ah, Yâkob, see those camels eat. It does my heart good to see them, for what am I without my camels, what are the Arabs without the camels are not the camels the pillars which support the Arab's house?" At other times he would abuse his fellow camel-drivers for coming into my tent, upbraiding them, "What, do you want to rob The Christian?
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