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  • There Peter warmed himself at a fire in the priest's court-yard; the crucifixion took place on a mountain above the town; and Mary looked for the body of her son in the grottoes of the syndic's garden.

    The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

  • So Jaafer went to fetch him: but Cout el Culoub forewent him to the syndic's house and told Ghanim that the

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • After this, she carried them to the bath a second time, and when they came out and had changed their clothes, she took them back to the syndic's house and left them there, whilst she returned to the palace and craving an audience of the Khalif, told him the whole story and how her lord Ghanim and his mother and sister were now in Baghdad.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • 'O my lady,' said the syndic's wife, 'we love the poor and destitute, because of the recompense that God hath promised to such as succour them: as for these, belike the oppressors have done them violence and robbed them of their fortune and laid waste their dwelling-place.'

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • She sat awhile, conversing with them, after which she enquired for the sick youth, and the syndic's wife replied, 'He is in the same state.'

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • When she reached the house, she went in and saluted the syndic's wife, who rose and kissed the ground before her, knowing her.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • There she saw Ghanim's mother and sister, whom the syndic's wife had taken to the bath and clothed afresh, so that the traces of their former condition were now plainly apparent.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

  • Barbara was obliged to wait in the broad, lofty hall of the syndic's house for the maid-servant, who announced her; and the stout man with the big head, who had seized the knocker just before she entered, shared her fate.

    Barbara Blomberg — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • The inquiry what he found lacking here was already rising to Barbara's lips when the syndic's wife came toward her, preceded by her daughter

    Barbara Blomberg — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • While she waited in front of Dr. Hiltner's house and talked with the members of the syndic's family after their return, he had remained concealed in the shadow of a neighbouring dwelling, and did not move until the doctor had gone away with the singer.

    Barbara Blomberg — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867

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