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Hadifah dissembled his contempt for these verses and the sheik who had pronounced them, but he ordered his son to go at once to Cais. Abou-Firacah started for the tribe of Abs, and as soon as he arrived there repaired to the home of Cais, who was absent. The messenger asked then for his wife Modelilah, the daughter of Rebia. "What do you desire of my husband?" she asked.
Besides, it might turn her head. Some small token of his gratitude some trinket by which to remember him was all that he could allow himself to offer... What trinket? Would she like to have one of his scarf-pins? Studs? Still more abs Ah! he had it, he literally and most providentially had it, there, in the fender: a pair of ear-rings!
Abs. for conc.==rich and poor nations. Falsis nominibus is by some connected with rapere. But better with appellant. They call things by false names, viz. plunder, empire; and desolation, peace. XXXI. Annos==annonam, yearly produce, cf. G. 14: expectare annum. So often in the Poets. In frumentum. For supplies. The reading of this clause is much disputed.
If you had the good fortune to be born and bred in the Bay State, your mind is thronged with half-sad, half-humorous recollections. The a-b abs of little voices long since hushed in the mould, or ringing now in the pulpit, at the bar, or in the Senate-chamber, come back to the ear of memory.
I think it quite reasonable to expect that you desist from this perverse mood, which will end in our total extermination. Cais has shown himself quite impartial and has done wrong to no one; cherish, therefore, peace with the horsemen of the tribe of Abs.
The results of the eclipse observations are supported by the detailed examination of the surface-temperature of the moon by Mr. He shows, by a diagram of the 'Phase-curve, that at the commencement of the Lunar day the surface just within the illuminated limb has acquired about 1/7 of its maximum temperature, or about 70° F. abs.
These words of Ibla filled with rapture the heart of Antar, as he started for the pastures in company with his brothers, Djaris and Shidoub. At this time the tribe of Abs, which Zoheir ruled over, was at war with that of Tex, on account of the carrying off of Anima, daughter of the chief of the Tex, a man known as "The Drinker of Blood."
Some went one way and some another, each intent upon what they thought concerned them most at the time. We went to a restaurant for breakfast and especially to get a good cup of tea for mother. This was within three miles of where mother was brought up and I was born. We hired a livery team to take us to Uncle Allen Light's. In going we passed by a school house where I learned my "A, B, Abs."
It is just possible, as regards the money He smiled in a ghastly manner and turned to the policeman. 'Er officer, I ought to tell you that my wife ah holds the purse-strings of our little home; and it is just possible that in an absent-minded moment I may have 'Do you mean to tell me, Henry, that you have been taking my money? 'My dear, it is just possible that in the abs 'How often?
They will listen for ever to his forays, when he raised the triumphant cry of his tribe, 'Oh! by Abs; oh! by Adnan, to the narratives of the camels he captured, the men he slew, and the maidens to whose charms he was indifferent, for he was 'ever the lover of Ibla. What makes this great Arabian invention still more interesting is, that it was composed at a period antecedent to the Prophet; it describes the desert before the Koran; and it teaches us how little the dwellers in it were changed by the introduction and adoption of Islamism.
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