How To Use Arabian nights In A Sentence
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And the strange thing is that in "Hypatia" or in the "Bride of the Nile" or in the "Stories of the Arabian Nights" the same characteristics stand out-the old Egypt has never changed.
The Egyptian and Arabian Problems
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I see Gordon Brown as a mythic figure, possibly from the 1001 Arabian Nights.
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In the essay, however, the trip took on something of an Arabian Nights adventure and a theatrical transformation scene.
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But you might lie round among grandmother's feet for days, and, except for a stray cuff in passing if she actually walked into you -- a cuff given in the purest spirit of love and good-will, and merely as a warning of the worse thing that might happen to you if you made her spill the dinner "sowens" -- you might spend your days in reading anything from the _Arabian Nights_ in Uncle Eben's old tattered edition to the mighty _Josephus_, all complete with plans and plates -- over which on
The Dew of Their Youth
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Her vivid published version of the tales overturns European notions of what we/they call the Arabian Nights.
One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review
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The legend of the roc surfaces in several stories of the Arabian Nights - two involving Sinbad and two about Abd -al -Rahman.
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The budding actors and actresses at Parklands had began preparing for their version of the musical Arabian Nights back in autumn when war was still only a remote possibility.
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He said he was an afreet, which my Arabian Nights memories enabled me to understand.
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Dr Drummond felt that he had been transported into a world that rivalled the Arabian nights.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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It took in persons who were more than persons -- personages; it passed over the impassive face of a dark ameer who looked as if he might have stepped from one of the pages of _The Arabian Nights_, and lingered on a box a little farther to one side.
Half A Chance
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Arabian Nights
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Many Barth obsessions creep up here, among them Maryland's Chesapeake River, the Arabian Nights, Noah's Ark and even a showboat named the Original Floating Opera II.
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He is best remembered for his unexpurgated versions of the Arabian Nights, The Kama Sutra, The Perfumed Garden, and other works of Arabian erotology.
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It is likewise the subject of one of the smaller tales in Lane's _Arabian Nights_; but here I must remark, that the Eastern version is decidedly more ingenious than the later ones, inasmuch as it exculpates the keeper of the deposit from the "laches" of which in the other cases she was decidedly guilty.
Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
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I'm currently in the midst of an old children's book, Max Voegeli's The Wonderful Lamp (1955) which is a great take on the tales from the Arabian Nights swirled together into an original story.
Friday Book Club
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These days, thanks to a string of surprise box-office hits based on old fables drawn from the _Katha-Sarit-Sagar_ compendium -- the "Ocean of the Streams of Story", longer than the Arabian Nights and equally as fantasticated -- Sisodia was no longer based exclusively in his tiny office on Bombay's Readymoney Terrace, but had apartments in London and New York, and Oscars in his toilets.
The Satanic Verses
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It brings boyhood dreams of wonders of the Arabian Nights.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accounts of Jesuit missionaries, the fabulous tales of the Arabian Nights, and the idyllic images on commodities all worked in concord to instill in the national consciousness the idea that China was different, intriguing, and wonderful.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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Finally, to while away the dull hours of the day, she invented narratives that explained the various elements in a porcelain design: “I have woven about it and halloed around it an Arabian Nights romance of astonishing plot and fancy.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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From information in The Arabian Nights, marid seem to be the strongest form of jinn, followed by afrit, and then the rest of the jinn.
The Tail Section » Season 4 Lineup and The Possible End of the Series!
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In the story of Seyf el-Mulook in the Arabian Nights the jinnee tells the captive daughter of the King of India, When I was born, the astrologers declared that the destruction of my soul would be effected by the hand of one of the sons of the human kings.
Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
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Arabian c. (_see_ Mocha) _Arabian Nights, The_, 31
All About Coffee
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This singular ambition was realized in the remarkable building that now loomed before me, whose design was characterized by a discordant—if not utterly bizarre—juxtaposition of architectural embellishments, from medieval battlements, to Corinthian columns, to Oriental minarets, to the sort of elaborately scrolled buttresses characteristic of the Italian baroque—the entire, unparalleled combination giving to the whole an air of Arabian Nights fantasticalness, as though the building had sprung full-blown from the teeming reveries of an inordinately imaginative child.
Nevermore
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Rimsky-Korsakov's phenomenal skill as an orchestral colourist shines out nowhere better than in the voluptuous, Arabian Nights-inspired Scheherazade, an all-time concert favourite and one that has charmed thousands of pairs of innocent ears into the earthly delights of classical music speaking as one ensnared by it early.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Russian Easter Festival Overture – review
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Stories that outrivalled the Arabian Nights clouded the realm of reason.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Smart, surrealistic fairy tales steepen in Arabian Nights lore and the gnarled fables of Hans Christian Andersen.
October 2007
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Fantasy on the other hand is as old as humanity (Homer is fantasy by any definition you care) and epics are also as old as humanity, so it's a different story there and no wonder there is a lot of old enjoyable fantasy out there, maybe not about elves, but fantasy nonetheless (check Arabian Nights, Melmoth the Wanderer, Manuscript Found in Saragossa - just to give some books that I still enjoy and are several hundred or more years old).
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