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  • The marabout's hut had lots of powders, leaves, ect...a bundle of horse hair.

    In the direction of my daydreams 2007

  • The marabout's hut had lots of powders, leaves, ect...a bundle of horse hair.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • We skirt the precipice of Azrou-n'hour, crowned with its marabout's tomb.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

  • What he feared most was gunpowder; and though he was ignorant of the marabout's secret ambitions and warlike preparations, he thought it not improbable that a store of gunpowder might be kept in the Zaouïa.

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • Not a soul in the marabout's house could read English, except the marabout himself; and it was seldom he honoured her with a visit.

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • He was almost ready to believe in the extraordinary virtue of the earth which had the honour of covering the marabout's remains.

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • To ask for his own future happiness, in spite of obstacles which would prove the marabout's power, was the most intelligent thing to do; but somehow the desire clamouring loudest at the moment was for Victoria, and the rest might go ungranted.

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • The marabout's dark hands clenched themselves, and he took a step forward, but stopped and stood still, tall and rigid, within arm's-length of the Englishman.

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • The woman on the roof was sick to death of his riches, his honours, his importance, for she was the marabout's wife; and in these days she loved him as little as she loved the orange garden he had given her, and all the things that were hers because she was his.

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • It was the marabout's own private oasis, and brought him in a large income every year.

    The Golden Silence 1901

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