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“But I think it touches our honour that Tristan and his people pretend to confound our Scottish bonnets with these pilfering vagabonds — torques and turbands, as they call them,” said Lindesay.

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Then she began to dance, and Ibrahim beheld motions he had never in his life seen their like, for she showed such wondrous skill and marvellous invention, that she made men forget the dancing of bubbles in wine-cups and called to mind the inclining of the turbands from head326-tops: even as saith of her the poet327,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then they laid by their turbands and outer clothes and sat talking and chatting and inducing one another to discourse, while they all kept their eyes fixed on Nur al-Din and gazed on his beauteous form.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The host entered and we followed him; 214 when he called for a bundle of clothes and muslins for turbands, and gave us each a suit and a piece; so we dressed and turbanded ourselves and sat us down.

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Moslems also glory in white turbands, but I should be tedious, were

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

They still boast with Ibn Abbas, cousin of Mohammed, that they have kerchiefs (not turbands) for crowns, tents for houses, loops for walls, swords for scarves and poems for registers or written laws.

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The prophecy was fulfilled in the days of Yazid, when the people of Al-Madinah filled their assembly with slippers and turbands to show that on account of his abominations they had cast off their allegiance as a garment.

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It is only when wandering by starlight through the northern outskirts of the town that citizens may be seen with light complexions and delicate limbs, coarse turbands, and Egyptian woollen robes, speaking disguise and the purpose of disguise.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Egyptians, as their red Tarbushes, white turbands, and black

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

But I believe she thought as little of her own gown at the moment as of the India turbands and cummerbands.

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