Word: arabian
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...Reining in his white Arabian horse, he gazed for a moment tranquilly upon the troop of French soldiers, who stood rigidly at attention to receive him. With a swift and surprisingly graceful movement he swung off his horse and strode over a pile of stones and past a half dead fire to where General Ibos, Commander of the French Moroccan division, stood waiting. With a bow entirely courteous but neither hurried nor deferential, the fallen Sultan placed himself at General Ibos' disposal. After ten minutes of discussion as to the disposition of the captives' wives and personal suite...
...Arabian Nights and a portion of the spirit of Mohammed's fierce armies coming in contact with the dreary military regime of hand-salutes and travelling mess-kitchen and courses in tactics. Abd-el-Krim himself was responsible for no small part of this drama. Instead of merely dismissing unsatisfactory subordinates, he blew them from the mouths of cannons; he offered rewards for people's heads; generally he behaved as an Oriental chieftain should, and was not at all ridiculous, because he was successful as well. He is in the hands of his enemies now. Even though...
...While the Sultan stolidly watched an exhibition of Arabian trick riding at the fair, the Franco-Spanish war against Abd-El-Krim, who also claims to be Sultan of Morocco, continued less than 50 miles away...
Last week another, Dr. Robert Eisler, working in his musty study in the Palais Royal at Paris, was collating an Old Russian (Slavonic) text of Josephus† with fragments that referred in Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Arabian to the times of Jesus. By collation he has worked out this visualization...
Anonymity is a convenient shelter from which to shoot ink-venomed arrows at the broad target of worldly foibles. Unfortunately this system, so advantageous to the attacker, has come under the ban common to all unsportsmanlike conduct. Ever since the Arabian nights, the public has regarded invisibility as an unfair weapon...