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Laws cannot be made for all; they must therefore be made for the control of the majority Is it not so? Who are the majority? Why the poor. If laws were made for the rich and powerful, such laws would not suit the community at large. Mashallah! there are no laws for pachas, who have only to believe that there is one God and Mahomet is his prophet. Does your slave say well?"
The man threw himself down before the pacha, with his head on the floor of the divan, and said, "First promise me, your highness, by the sword of the prophet, that no harm shall result to me from complying with your request; and then I shall obey you with pleasure." "Mashallah! what is the Kafir afraid of?
It is even as he sayeth, for I have travelled in their country, and such is the custom of that uncivilised nation. Mashallah! but he lives in awe and trembling." "By the beard of the Prophet, he does not appear to show it outwardly," replied the pacha; "but that may be the custom also." "Be chesm, on my eyes be it," replied Mustapha, "it is even so.
Do not its leaves fall when the blasts of autumn blow upon it?" "But the winter that must wither thee is still far distant." "Oh, Achmed! when anyone's star falls from Heaven, does the world ever ask, wert thou young? wert thou beautiful? didst thou enjoy life? Mashallah! such a one is dead already. My star shone upon thy face, and if thou dost turn thy face from me, then must I droop and wither."
His eye looked very possessive for that of one seeking employment as a guide, but he stood at respectful attention until spoken to. "These gentlemen have decided to employ you," the consul announced. "Mashallah!" "They want to find a castle in the mountains, to hunt bear and boar, and to see Zeitoon." "I shall lead them to ten castles never seen before by Eenglismen!
"Mashallah!" swore the driver. "I would know thine evil face with the meat stripped off it! Nevertheless, thou and I are brothers and this is my train. So let me go!" Grim watched Ayisha jump out of the caboose with my rifle in her hand, and turn to take aim at the open door, through which the conductor's voice came croaking blasphemy. "All right," he said.
He had divested himself of most of his own garments for the convenience of swimming, but his pockets were left and a comb in them; and though poor Mademoiselle Julienne would have been shocked at the result of his efforts, and the little silken laced suit was sadly tarnished with sea water, Ulysse became such an astonishing sight that the children danced round him, the women screamed with wonder, and the men said 'Mashallah! The young Scotsman's height was perhaps equally amazing, for he saw them pointing up to his head as if measuring his stature.
I could not help laughing when, after drinking off my third big bowl, the poor woman of the khan, in spite of Arab courtesies, was obliged to utter a loud "Mashallah!" We were still surrounded by amphitheatre-shaped mountains, with the points to the Sea of Sidon. The sunset was splendid, and the air was cool and pleasant.
"The Frank declareth that her eyes were bright as those of the gazelle that her eyebrows were as one her waist as that of the cypress her face as the full moon; and that she was fat as the houris that await the true believers." "Mashallah! all for a piastre. Ask him, Mustapha, if there are more wives to be sold in that country?"
I would have bet on three of a kind against him sky-high, even if he had passed the draw. He drew aside the curtain of the shibrayah gingerly, as if he expected a trick mechanism that might explode a bomb in his face. "Mashallah! Where is the woman?" he exclaimed. I found out then that I was right as to the way to play that supposititious poker hand.
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