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  • That Rajah's descendants now live in Nur Pur, sixteen miles east of us, and are reduced to poverty.

    Daughters of India 1908

  • Presently the Wazir came into the King; and finding him troubled because of the horse, thought to do away his concern and said to him, “O King, give me the stallion and I will cure him,” The King consented and caused carry the horse to the stable wherein Nur al-Din lay chained; but, when he missed his brother, he cried out with an exceeding great cry and neighed, so that he affrighted all the folk.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Mr. Nur is among a band of property developers in Somalia who are catering to displaced people — getting into the real-estate business when most are getting out.

    From Somalia's Chaos, Housing Market Is Born Abdinasir Mohamed 2010

  • "Barbara!" called Nur-el-Din from the dressing table.

    Okewood of the Secret Service Valentine Williams 1914

  • It belonged to Emperor Shah Jahangir, who had the diamond inscribed with his wife's name "Nur Jahan."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The mosque, Masjid al-Farah, was created by a Sufi order called Nur Ashki Jerrahi, currently led by a woman, which means the order of light and love.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Gülen's movement is also referred to as Nur (Light), derived from the movement inspired by Said Nursi, an Islamic thinker in Turkey who died in 1960.

    Institute for War & Peace Reporting: 2009

  • Their mother had given birth to a girl called Nur, a few days earlier, but she made it seem just like any other day, washing the dishes in a big plastic tub with one arm, her newborn whose eyebrows were decorated in thick kohl, in the other.

    The Jakarta Post Breaking News 2009

  • On 29 December 2008 President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned after parliament refused to back his sacking of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, more popularly known as Nur Adde.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • Well, for me taking more than 10 subjects such as Nur Amalina Che Bakri who scored 17 1As in 2004 and Azali Azlan, 21 As in 2007 is rather a personal challenge than to break a record in the country.

    Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Reshuffling in the education system 2009

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