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Ali

noun

United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942). Synonyms: Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Muhammad Ali.

The fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects.

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Ali Baba

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina

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"Ali" Quotes from Famous Books

... preparation for the Carnival, a thousand plans for getting the better of pickpockets and other crooks passed through Philo Gubb's mind. He finally decided to disguise himself as Ali Baba. He had a slight recollection that Ali Baba had something to do with forty thieves. ...

— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler

... reproached me severely for caring less than one ought to do for the Merry Wives of Windsor. Had he Imagination? In its high literary and poetic form he rose to few conspicuous flights—such, for example, as Burke's descent of Hyder Ali upon the Carnatic—in vast and fantastic conceptions such as arose from time to time in the brain of Napoleon, he had no part or lot. But in force of moral and political imagination, in bold, excursive range, in the faculty of illuminating practical and objective calculations with lofty ...

— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

... relieve Arcot, a British force of three thousand men was cut to pieces by Hyder Ali. Baird, then a young captain in the 73rd, was left for dead on the field. He was afterwards, with forty-nine other officers, kept in prison at Seringapatam, and treated with Oriental barbarity and treachery by Hyder Ali and his son Tippoo Sahib, Sultans of Mysore. Twenty-three of the prisoners died ...

— Poems: New and Old • Henry Newbolt

... the journey to Joannina, the capital then of the famous Ali Pasha, was rendered unpleasant by the wetness of the weather; still it was impossible to pass through a country so picturesque in its features, and rendered romantic by the traditions of robberies and conflicts, without receiving impressions of that kind of imagery which constitutes the ...

— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt

... not hurried thyself Ali!' said one of the latter, speaking in Turkish. 'Hassan and I were about to ...

— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges

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