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Sinbad the Sailor   /sˈɪnbˌæd ðə sˈeɪlər/   Listen
Sinbad the Sailor

noun
1.
In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.  Synonym: Sinbad.






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"Sinbad the sailor" Quotes from Famous Books



... help. Descending a tree, he climbed along one of the lower branches, from the end of which he had easily dropped down on the bully's back. There he clung, like the old man of the sea who clung to the back of Sinbad the sailor. But, as I have said, Blackall was a very powerful fellow, and after he had got over his terror at this sudden assault, he used every means to get rid of his assailant. He could not shake him off; and Gregson did not flinch from all the pinches and blows behind ...
— Ernest Bracebridge - School Days • William H. G. Kingston

... flows past; yet I cannot tell how it moves me. I suspect that the old desires and longings of my servant-ridden childhood—when in the solitary imprisonment of my room I pored over the Arabian Nights, and shared with Sinbad the Sailor his adventures in many a strange land—are not yet dead within me, but are roused at the sight of any empty boat ...
— Glimpses of Bengal • Sir Rabindranath Tagore



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