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  • Jew boys what you call Abati, but I call rotten sneaks, for if they get their thieving fingers into those canisters of picric salts, thinking they're jam, as I found them trying to do yesterday, something may happen in Egypt that'll make the Pharaohs turn in their graves and the

    Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The main facts are that these people who picked me up outside their gates are called Abati, live in a town called Mur, and allege themselves to be descended from a tribe of Abyssinian Jews who were driven out and migrated to this place four or five centuries ago.

    Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "Surely the Abati are a people of rogues," she said.

    Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Another village, called Abati, presents itself on the right-hand, imbosomed in a grove of fruit trees; but the stranger, desirous to proceed, advances along the valley until, after having ascended a rising ground, he beholds stretched out at his feet the fine plain of Esdraëlon covered with the richest pasture. [

    Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814

  • Officials were still struggling to determine who the freed prisoners were, Mr. Abati said, but the attack shared characteristics with previous assaults by Boko Haram.

    Gunmen Free 119 From Nigeria Prison Drew Hinshaw 2012

  • Mr. Abati said the sect may have been attempting to free two recently-arrested leaders, although neither at the time was at the prison.

    Gunmen Free 119 From Nigeria Prison Drew Hinshaw 2012

  • At least four Shell executives were present when the report was handed over, according to Mr. Abati.

    In Nigeria, a Big Oil Toll Alexis Flynn 2011

  • "We don't have any information on the prisoners who were freed," added Mr. Abati.

    Gunmen Free 119 From Nigeria Prison Drew Hinshaw 2012

  • Mr. Jonathan "made it clear that the government would take appropriate steps to make sure issues raised in the report would be addressed," said government spokesman Ruben Abati.

    In Nigeria, a Big Oil Toll Alexis Flynn 2011

  • About 20 gunmen stormed the prison in Koton-Karifi, a town just south of Nigeria's federal capital, Abuja, according to President Goodluck Jonathan's spokesman, Rueben Abati.

    Gunmen Free 119 From Nigeria Prison Drew Hinshaw 2012

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