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  • When this was done he said to his pages and slaves, “I purpose going forth a-pleasuring outside the city on the road to Kalyub-town, 373 and I shall lie three nights abroad; so let none of you follow me, for there is something straiteneth my breast.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then they walked from place to place, till they came to the Tigris and saw an old man sitting in a boat; so they went up to him and saluting him, said, “O Shaykh, we desire thee of thy kindness and favour to carry us a-pleasuring down the river, in this thy boat, and take this dinar to thy hire.” —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thereupon quoth the old man, laughing, O my son, art thou going a-pleasuring to

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The old woman ceased not to lead the Princess a-pleasuring about the garden, till they reached the place where the Prince lay ambushed, when, behold she said, “O Thou whose bounties are hidden, vouchsafe us assurance from that we fear!”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when they said to the old man, “We desire thee to carry us a-pleasuring in this thy boat and take this dinar;” he answered,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Moreover, I made proclamation, ‘Whoso goeth a-pleasuring on the Tigris by night, I will strike off his head, without ruth or delay;’ and on such wise have I done this whole year past, during which time I have heard no news of the lady neither happened upon any trace of her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As they were talking, behold, up came Taj al-Din, and his son looked at him and said, O father mine, the sons of the merchants have invited me to wend a-pleasuring with them in such a garden.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The young merchants invited him saying, “O my lord Nur al-Din, we wish thee to go this day a-pleasuring with us in such a garden.”

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  • Know that I rode out one day, a-pleasuring, and my ride brought me to a place where I smelt the reek of food.

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  • We encounter a herd of classical dolphins out a-pleasuring.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

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