"Fatimah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my life have I seen her before this day!" And I recounted to her the whole affair and begged of her to cover me, informing her that my private parts were clean unconcealed. She laughed and cried out to the women of the lodging-house, saying, "Ho, Fatimah! Ho, Khadijah! Ho, Harifah! Ho, Saninah!" Whereupon all those who were in the place of women and neighbours flocked to me and fell a-mocking me and saying, "O pimp,[FN57] what hadst thou to do with gallantry?" Then one of them came and looked in my face and laughed, and another ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... splendid; an epithet of Fatimah, the daughter of the Apostle "the bright blooming." Fatimah is an old Arab name of good omen, "the weaner:" in Egypt it becomes Fattumah (an incrementative "great weaner"); and so Aminah, Khadijah and Nafisah ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... not obey the unbeliever; and when he would have sent for negroes out of the Soudan he was warned that a Jew might not hold a slave. But the conspiracy failed again. Two black female slaves from Soos, named Fatimah and Habeebah, were bought in the name of the Governor and assigned to ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine |
