Alnaschar

He is the Alnaschar of the Englished Galland and Richardson.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It is, to be sure, something like the feast which the Barmecide served up to Alnaschar; and we cannot expect to get fat upon such diet.

Redgauntlet 2008

Addison introduced into the Spectator (No. 535, Nov. 13) the Story of Alnaschar (= Al – Nashshár, the Sawyer) and says that his remarks on Hope “may serve as a moral to an Arabian tale which I find translated into French by Monsieur Galland.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful young creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful day-dreams ere now!

Vanity Fair 2006

I — when I have achieved a — psha! what an Alnaschar I am because I have made five pounds by my poems, and am engaged to write half a dozen articles for a newspaper.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Unluckily, on leaving the house, he forgot to lock the door, and the neighbours, finding the place empty, informed the police, who next morning arrested Alnaschar as a thief.

Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005

The Greek slave, supposing that all had passed as usual, shortly arrived with the basin of salt, but when she beheld Alnaschar with the sabre in his hand she let the basin fall and turned to fly.

Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005

The mirage of this fortune hung before successive members of the Jenkin family until her death in 1825, when it dissolved and left the latest Alnaschar face to face with bankruptcy.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Alnaschar he was indeed; beholding about him a world all changed, a world filled with telpherage wires; and seeing not only himself and family but all his friends enriched.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Zanzibar folded in a pocket-handkerchief, and with which he was about to buy ivory and slaves, and make his fortune in the famed land of Unyamwezi, had disappeared with the great eminent hopes he had built on them, like those of Alnaschar the unfortunate owner of crockery in the Arabian tale.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004