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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Prolonged applause from a breathless audience," laughed the Adjutant. "We can merely murmur a Benedictined Bismillah." . . . Now it is possible that to those who sit at home, and regard war from arm-chairs as a movement of little flags on a large-scale map, the words of Toby Seymour may come in the nature of a surprise.
One of them, strangely enough, ejaculated "Himmel" and "Donnerwetter" as often as "Bismillah" and "Inshallah" when he swore.
"Adhere to matter of fact, vizier! why, I have not stated a single fact yet!" "What! is not all this true?" "Not one word of it, as I hope to go to heaven!" "Bismillah! what, not about Marie and the Convent and Cerise?" "All lies from beginning to end." "And were you never a barber?" "Never in my life."
We had moved our position, and there was no sand-bank in the neighbourhood. After an absence of about two hours, Howarti returned, together with his companion and the large basket. This contained a few small fish hardly sufficient for our breakfast. "Ah, Howarti!" I exclaimed, "you are a bad Mussulman you have forgotten to say 'Bismillah."
As David spoke, Kaid's face grew darker, his fingers fumbled vaguely with the linen of the loose white robe he wore. When the tale was finished he sat for a moment apparently stunned by the news, then he burst out fiercely: "Bismillah, am I to hear only black words to-day? Hast thou naught to say but this the fortune of Egypt burned to ashes!"
It is in the comparative quiet of the streets by night that one hears more distinctly the sounds in the houses. Here rises the bright note of the "shadi" or luck songs with which during the livelong night the women of the house dispel the evil influences that gather around a birth, a circumcision or a "bismillah" ceremony.
Here she broke off hurriedly, for at that very instant, as if in denial of her words, Baby Akbar gave a little crow of assent, let go her petticoats, and with outspread balancing arms, and legs very wide apart, launched himself boldly for his very first steps! "Bismillah!" "Bismillah!
"Bismillah in the name of God!" cried the Mohammedan leaders of the company, as they took the first step on the dangerous road. The huge caravan, an interminable file of black men, entered the forest.
Where would he hide himself when the dwarf with seven fingers on each hand, no upper lip, and his under-jaw gone, came down in his majesty? Bismillah! The cripples of Europe are a delusion and a fraud. The truly gifted flourish only in the by-ways of Pera and Stamboul.
Abd er-Rahman uses him to spy and pry on his Bashas! Camel-skin coat? Allah! a fine disguise! Bismillah! Bismillah!" Then, looking back at the place where Mohammed in the vision saw his body lie outstretched, he dropped his voice to a whisper, and said, "Listen! You have my seal?" Israel without a word, put his hand into the pocket of his waistband, and drew out the seal of Ben Aboo. "Right!
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