of yore

• “Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that in times of yore the land of Egypt was ruled by a Sultan endowed with justice and generosity, one who loved the pious poor and companied with the”

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• “Full and lovely in contour rose of yore the small breasts of me.”

  Psalms of the Sisters

• “There lived once in the days of yore and the good old times long gone before, in the land of Khorasan, a merchant called Majd al-Dín, who had great wealth and many slaves and servants, white and black, young and old; but he had not been blessed with a child until he reached the age of threescore, when Almighty Allah vouchsafed him a son, whom he named Alí Shár.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Know, O thou Ifrit, that in days of yore and in ages long gone before, a King called Yunan reigned over the city of Fars of the land of the Roum. 78 He was a powerful ruler and a wealthy, who had armies and guards and allies of all nations of men; but his body was afflicted with a leprosy which leaches and men of science failed to heal.”

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• “Shone of yore this body as shield of gold well-polishèd.”

  Psalms of the Sisters

• “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in times of yore and in years and ages long gone before, there lived in Damascus a merchant among the merchants, a wealthy man who had a son like the moon on the night of his fulness80 and withal sweet of speech, who was named”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Therein it is related (but Allah is All knowing of His hidden things and All ruling and All honoured and All giving and All gracious and All merciful 1) that, in tide of yore and in time long gone before, there was a King of the Kings of the Banu Sásán in the”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “It hath reached me, O august King, that in days of yore and in times and ages long gone before, during the Caliphate of Harun al-Rashid, there was a merchant who named his son Abú al-Hasan174 Ali bin Táhir; and the same was great of goods and grace, while his son was fair of form and face and held in favour by all folk.”

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• “Well, go unhitch an 'git astraddle of yore animal.”

  Northern Georgia sketches,

• ““What is that?” asked he, and she said, It hath reached me that there lived, in times of yore and years and ages long gone before, a merchant of Cairo25 named Shams al-Din, who was of the best and truest spoken of the traders of the city; and he had eunuchs and servants and negro-slaves and handmaids and Mame lukes and great store of money.”

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