carrier-pigeons

To improve upon nature by draining a malarial swamp is permitted him; to improve upon nature's methods and breed swifter carrier-pigeons and finer horses than she has ever bred is also permitted; but to improve upon nature in the breeding of the human, that is a sacrilege which cannot be condoned!

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

D. 1322 speaks of carrier-pigeons in Syria as a well-known mode Of intercourse between lord and lord.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Her father182 had also been governor of the carrier-pigeons to the Caliph with a solde of one thousand dinars a month.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then he went up and took all the clothes and the carrier-pigeons and, opening the gate made off to the barrack of the Forty, where he found Hasan Shuman the Pestilence who said to him, “How hast thou fared?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Now when Ali entered with the clothes and the carrier-pigeons, Hasan Shuman gave the hall-keeper the price of forty pigeons and he bought them and cooked them amongst the men.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And if thou have a mind to marry Zaynab, bring with thee also the forty carrier-pigeons.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Verily, my father was governor of the carrier-pigeons to thee and I know how to rear the birds; and my husband was town-captain of Baghdad.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Rejoined Dalilah, “For the sake of Allah intercede with him to give me back the carrier-pigeons and what not, and thou wilt lay me under great obligation.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He is known chiefly for his eccentricities, such as cutting the throats of all his carrier-pigeons, making a man dine off marrow and sugar and having snow sent to him at Meccah, a distance of 700 miles.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Winnie the maid, flitted in and out like carrier-pigeons.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004