"Waistcloth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... till he brought it to land, when, behold, there was another ape in it, with front teeth wide apart, [FN187] Kohl-darkened eyes and hands stained with Henna-dyes; and he was laughing and wore a tattered waistcloth about his middle. Quoth Khalifah, "Praised be Allah who hath changed the fish of the river into apes!" [FN188] then, going up to the first ape, who was still tied to the tree, he said to him, "See, O unlucky, how fulsome ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton |
