Elihu Jan's Story: Or, The Private Life of an Eastern QueenLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865 - Broj stranica: 210 The life of Janāb Aulia, wife of Amjad ʻAli, and mother of Wajid ʻAli, King of Oudh, as told by one of her attendants. |
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... beautiful to me ; I thought , surely this is Peristan ( the country of the Peris ) , and these are surely Peris , not mortals . But I was told to eat , and I did so , and found the sweetmeats so delicious , that I soon forgot everything ...
... beautiful to me ; I thought , surely this is Peristan ( the country of the Peris ) , and these are surely Peris , not mortals . But I was told to eat , and I did so , and found the sweetmeats so delicious , that I soon forgot everything ...
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... beautiful and ugly , all in rich kinkobs and cloths of gold , wearing their finest jewellery , and soft silvery voices rang forth in laughter , and the sweet tones of girlhood were mingled with the roar of drums and trumpets and all ...
... beautiful and ugly , all in rich kinkobs and cloths of gold , wearing their finest jewellery , and soft silvery voices rang forth in laughter , and the sweet tones of girlhood were mingled with the roar of drums and trumpets and all ...
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... beautiful scene , and fail to remember it for ever after ? When the banquet was concluded , music and singing and dancing filled up the hours till near midnight - no entertainment lasted over midnight . In that , as in so many other ...
... beautiful scene , and fail to remember it for ever after ? When the banquet was concluded , music and singing and dancing filled up the hours till near midnight - no entertainment lasted over midnight . In that , as in so many other ...
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... beautiful as a houri , and the bribe was more than enough to corrupt even a good man . But so attached and devoted were the few followers of the saint , that the one who was faithless waited long in vain for an oppor- tunity to execute ...
... beautiful as a houri , and the bribe was more than enough to corrupt even a good man . But so attached and devoted were the few followers of the saint , that the one who was faithless waited long in vain for an oppor- tunity to execute ...
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... suffering dreadfully from want of water . One of the four daughters of Huzrut Aly was in the camp , beautiful as a peri , and she too was in torture for want of water . Her uncle Abas Alaam loved her , saw THE MOHURRIM . 87.
... suffering dreadfully from want of water . One of the four daughters of Huzrut Aly was in the camp , beautiful as a peri , and she too was in torture for want of water . Her uncle Abas Alaam loved her , saw THE MOHURRIM . 87.
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