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Updated: May 25, 2025

Tell that to your mother, little wagtail, and come again very often." "Thank you very much. But let me ask you, if I may, where you heard that odious nickname? I hate it." "From the same person who told you the secret that my Pulcheria is called Pul!" said Rufinus; he laughed and bowed and left the two girls together. "What a dear old man!" cried Katharina.

Georg Ebers - The Bride of the Nile — Volume 05

Their daughter Pulcheria, was commonly called "Pul" for short, to save time, excepting when the old man spoke of her by preference as "the poor child."

Georg Ebers - Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works

Forgive an old man for such fatherly familiarity with the daughter of Thomas; hardly five years after my marriage with this good wife, not long after we had lost our only son, I left her and our little daughter, Pul there, for more than two years, to follow the Emperor Heraclius of my own free will to the war against the Persians who had done me no harm not, indeed, as a soldier, but as a surgeon eager for experience.

Georg Ebers - The Bride of the Nile — Complete

Fortunately in the more important case, that of the seventh dynasty, the number of years can be exactly supplied without any difficulty. The Canon of Ptolemy covers, in fact, the whole interval between the reign of Pul and the close of the Babylonian Empire, giving for the period of the seventh dynasty 13 reigns in 122 years, and for that of the eighth 5 reigns in 87 years.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1: Chaldaea : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.