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Examples
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The wild ideas concerning Khalít and Malít (vol.v. 319) are again Guebre.
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And the Guebre swore to him by the Fire and the Light that he had no longer any cause to fear him.
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But Hasan consented not to this: so the accursed Guebre arose and prostrating himself to the fire, bade his pages throw him flat on his face.
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Then the Guebre bade his servants light him a fire and Hasan said, “What wilt thou do with it?”
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Chosroë per excellentiam, is also applied to the godly Guebre of whom every Eastern dictionary gives details.
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Next year the accursed Guebre again made his appearance, having with him a handsome young Moslem, as he were the moon, bound hand and foot and tormented with grievous tortures, and alighted with him below the palace-walls.
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It was borrowed from the highly imaginative faith of the Guebre, the Zoroastrian.
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Believer was adopted by the Persian to conceal his being a fire-worshipper, Magian or “Guebre.”
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Even to the present day missionaries have a good word for the Guebre and the Buddhist, the Brahmanist and the Confucian, but none for the Moslem: Dr. Livingstone, for one instance of many, evidently preferred the Fetichist, whom he could convert, to the
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The name of this accursed was Bahrám the Guebre, and he was wont, every year, to take a Moslem and cut his throat for his own purposes.
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