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His success derives from his faith, from his idealism, and from his powers of imagination that enable him to hear the Daughter of the Voice and to dream of Afrites.
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Baron as the lamp and ring of Eastern tales enslaved the Afrites.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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It will try to place some world of Afrites and shadowy giants behind the constellations, which it finds too distinct and constant to be its companions or supporters; and it will assign to itself vague and infinite tasks, for which it is doubtless better equipped than for those which the earth now sets before it.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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There was no light save the light shed abroad by the flashes of the blade, and in these they beheld the air suffocated with Afrites and Genii in a red and brown and white heat, followers of Karaz.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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How? are the Afrites jealous, that they send thee to jibe me? '
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Wullahy! all Afrites, male and female, are in the service of Shagpat, my light, my eyes, my sun!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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How? are the Afrites jealous, that they send thee to jibe me? '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Shagpat but one hair remaining on him; yet was that the Identical; and it arose, and was a serpent in his head, and from its jaws issued a river of fiery serpents: these and a host of Afrites besieged Shibli Bagarag; and now, to defend himself, he unloosed the twin Genii, Karavejis and
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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There was no light save the light shed abroad by the flashes of the blade, and in these they beheld the air suffocated with Afrites and Genii in a red and brown and white heat, followers of Karaz.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Shagpat but one hair remaining on him; yet was that the Identical; and it arose, and was a serpent in his head, and from its jaws issued a river of fiery serpents: these and a host of Afrites besieged Shibli Bagarag; and now, to defend himself, he unloosed the twin Genii, Karavejis and
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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