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Und jede Pein Wird einst ein Stachel Der Wollust sein.
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Neuwied, München: 1895; Wird die Sozialdemokratie den Frauen Wort halten?
Johanna L��wenherz. 2009
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Then Wird Khan asked, “Is there any resource or device for our King, whereby to ward off from himself and his kingdom this sore calamity?”
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Wird Khan returned his salutation and bade him be seated.
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To us it is much like “padding” when Nuzhat al-Zamán (vol.ii. 156 etc.) fags her hapless hearers with a discourse covering sixteen mortal pages; when the Wazir Dandan (vol.ii. 195, etc.) reports at length the cold speeches of the five high-bosomed maids and the Lady of Calamities and when Wird Khan, in presence of his papa (Nights cmxiv-xvi.) discharges his patristic exercitations and heterogeneous knowledge.
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As for King Wird Khan, he returned to the paths of righteousness, abandoning his evil ways and repenting to Allah with sincere penitence; and he gave up womanising altogether and applied himself wholly to the ordering of the affairs of his realm and the governance of his people in the fear of Allah.
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Then he sealed the scroll and gave it to a messenger, who journeyed with it till he came to the capital of Wird Khan and delivered it to him.
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Rejoined Wird Khan, “But who shall tell the King of this that he may send for thee and invite thee to him?”
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“Wird” = the twenty-five last chapters of the Koran which are repeated, one or more at a time, after the end of the
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Wird Khan said to his Wazir, Indeed, I have left my whilome inclination to women and have altogether renounced my infatuation for them, but how shall I do to punish them in retaliation of their misdeeds?
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