"Oman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Badawi, Tale of, ii. Hariri (Al ) Abu Zayd's lament for his impotency. Final Note to vol. viii Harun al-Rashid and the Arab girl, vii. Harun al-Rashid and the Slave-Girl and the Imam Abu Yusuf, iv. Harun al-Rashid with the Damsel and Abu Nowas, iv. Harun al-Rashid and Abu Hasan the Merchant of Oman, ix. Harun al-Rashid and the three girls, v. Harun al-Rashid and the two girls, v. Harun al-Rashid and the three poets, v. Harun al-Rashid and Zubaydah in the Bath, v. Hashish-Eater, Bakun's tale of the, ii. Hasan of Bassorah and the King's daughter of the Jinn, vii. Hasan, King Mohammed bin Sabaik ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... Rashdall and the Rev. Andrew Clark for most kindly reading through my chapters, and for several suggestions, and Professor Oman for special help in the Appendix on ...
— The Oxford Degree Ceremony • Joseph Wells
... Europe, and from Africa as far west as the Golden Coast. Whether this story were true or not, the effects were certain. Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. The plague was forgotten, in this ...
— The Last Man • Mary Shelley
... dies, gwineter git me anudder one; A big fat yaller one, jes lak de yudder one. I'll hate mighty bad, w'en she's been gone. Hain't no better 'oman never nowhars ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... coast of Oman, in South Arabia, which on the north is washed by the waters of the Persian Gulf, and on the south by the Sea of Oman, abounds with fish; and, as the natives have but few canoes, they generally substitute a single inflated skin, or sometimes ...
— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne |
