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Europeans, seeing the left breast conspicuously feminine, have indulged in silly surmises about the "Amazons." And as Easterns sit on carpets, their falling back is very different from the same movement off a chair. "Ismid," the eye-powder before noticed. "Shaib al-inghaz"=lit. a gray beard who shakes head in disapproval. "Ayat" = the Hebr. "Ototh," signs, wonders or Koranic verses.
There were palanquins and litters for carrying queens, framed and braced with silver and enamel, with jade-handled poles and amber curtain-rings; there were golden candlesticks hung with pierced emeralds that quivered on the branches; there were studded images, five feet high, of forgotten gods, silver with jewelled eyes; there were coats of mail, gold inlaid on steel, and fringed with rotted and blackened seed-pearls; there were helmets, crested and beaded with pigeon's-blood rubies; there were shields of lacquer, of tortoise-shell and rhinoceros-hide, strapped and bossed with red gold and set with emeralds at the edge; there were sheaves of diamond-hilted swords, daggers, and hunting-knives; there were golden sacrificial bowls and ladles, and portable altars of a shape that never sees the light of day; there were jade cups and bracelets; there were incense-burners, combs, and pots for perfume, henna, and eye-powder, all in embossed gold; there were nose-rings, armlets, head-bands, finger-rings, and girdles past any counting; there were belts, seven fingers broad, of square-cut diamonds and rubies, and wooden boxes, trebly clamped with iron, from which the wood had fallen away in powder, showing the pile of uncut star-sapphires, opals, cat's-eyes, sapphires, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and garnets within.
It was lost from me and I found it with this man mine enemy. The Kazi asked, 'When didst thou lose it?; and the Kurd answered, 'But yesterday, and I passed a sleepless night by reason of its loss. 'An it be thy bag, quoth the Kazi, 'tell me what is in it. Quoth the Kurd, 'There were in my bag two silver styles for eye-powder and antimony for the eyes and a kerchief for the hands, wherein I had laid two gilt cups and two candlesticks.
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