uman

• “It's not in 'uman nature to veel bad for vishes, and vishes veel not anyting, so ve vill keel the vishes and eat im to-night.”

  Janey Canuck in the West

• “I don't mind saws an' knives hung round the cabin, 'he ses to the fust mate,' but when a chap has a 'uman' and alongside 'is plate, studying it while folks is at their food, it's more than a Christian man can stand.”

  Many Cargoes

• “This goblet bright that goes round the room * Nor Chosroës held neither Nu'uman's line.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “Nu'uman's bloom, the anemone; so she took the cup from her sister and turning to the Songstress, said to her, "O Tohfah, sing to me on this.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “The merge with royal Nu'uman's [FN#334] bloom is dight, *”

  Arabian nights. English

• “Yamani stuff, passed it twice round her waist, then she tucked up her trousers and displayed two calves of alabaster carrying a mound of crystal, smooth and rounded, and a stomach which exhaled musk from its dimples, as it were a bed of Nu'uman's anemones; and breasts like double pomegranates.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “[FN#521] I have explained "Nu'uman's flower" as the anemone which in Grecised Arabic is "Anúmiyá.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “W'y, Willum, it seems to me that if you go on improvin 'things at this rate there won't be no use in a short time for' uman 'ands at all.”

  The Iron Horse

• “Blame not the mole that dwelleth on his cheek * For Nu'uman's bloom aye shows spot negro-hued. ”

  Arabian nights. English

• “Chamberlain heard the story he knew it to be sooth, and its manifest truth appeared to him and he was certified that he was become King Omar bin al-Nu'uman's son in law, so he said to himself, "'Twill be my fate to be made viceroy of some province." [”

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