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In the Sunan (book of Hadith) of Abu Dawood on the authority of Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم is reported to have said:

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  • My mother's not afraid of you Jest a line on a postal--ud bring the Old Man on a special. —  The Fighting Shepherdess
  • When I scrambled off the top of the old-fashioned coach, and before I had time to shake the alkali dust from my clothes, or moisten my dry and cracked lips, a typical western bully approached me roaring the verses of a song with which he evidently intended to terrify me He blowed into Lanigan swinging a gun A new one A blue one A colt’s forty-one An’ swearing Declaring Red Rivers ’ud run Down Alkali Valley An’ oceans of gore ud wash sudden death On the sage brush shore An’ he shot a big hole He got no further with the song. —  The Black Wolf Pack
  • Thereafter Kanauj declined in importance, though still the capital of a Rajput dynasty, and the final sack by Shihab-ud-Din in A.D. 1194 reduced it to desolation and insignificance for ever. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • They make prayers to their club once a year, so that it may not cause them serious injury when they strike themselves with it The Jalalias are named after their founder, Jalal-ud-din of Bokhara, and have a horse-whip as their badge, with which they sometimes strike themselves on the hands and feet. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • And mother's bound to hear us; she sleeps so lightly when I'm out DAPHNE Gaping violently._] Oh-h-h-h JIMMIE Clapping her hand over DAPHNE'S mouth._] Manners FULKERSON Depositing his overcoat and hat upon the fauteuil-stool._] One 'ud 'magine th' working-man'sh th' on'y pershon who ever does day'sh work! —  The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts
 

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