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  • Well, Scholar, I have held you too long about these Cadis, and my spirits are almost spent, and so I doubt is your patience; but being we are now within sight of

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Cadis turns, and then how to use them, first as they bee

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Cadis, and then as they be flies, is an Art, and an Art that every one that professes Angling is not capable of.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Cadis, or Case-worms that are to bee found in this Nation in several distinct Counties, & in several little

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Moullahs, the Sheiks, the Cadis and Imams of Schiraz (who seemed not to have met the Santons) arrived, leading by bridles of riband inscribed from the Koran, a train of asses, which were loaded with the choicest fruits the country could boast; having presented their offerings to the Caliph, they petitioned him to honour their city and mosques with his presence.

    The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

  • There are conflicting reports over who has control over the town of Cadis (ph).

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2001 2001

  • The captive Pashas and Cadis marched on foot in the procession.

    The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

  • The Vizier Horam did as he was commanded, and sent for all the Cadis of the city, and examined them concerning Mahoud; but no one could give any account of him.

    Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

  • By calling together all the Cadis in Bagdad, in order to learn by whom the contract had been drawn up, the affair would be in danger of being divulged, without resolving the difficulty.

    Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

  • The country very hilly and the lands not so fertile as those met with near Cadis.

    Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Richard Lee Mason

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