Arabian Nights love

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  • noun a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century

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Examples

  • _Arabian Nights_, where imagination and picture painting runs riot.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • The two tales from _The Arabian Nights_ are among the best in that collection and are perhaps the ones most frequently referred to in general literature and in conversation.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • When we celebrate our May-day festival it looks, after dark, like a scene out of the _Arabian Nights_; and when, added to this, we have beautiful music and fine singing, and the young folks are enjoying the dance, it is really very pleasant.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

  • Then, their lessons prepared, they would draw up in a little group to listen to a story, possibly from the _Arabian Nights_, or would gather about the piano in the parlor where Henry would sing to them the popular songs of that day.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • (_Arabian Nights_, Note 22.cap. iii.), "a fact that has been completely established by the researches of Dr. Meyer of Konigsberg, who discovered in the works of an old Hindostanee physician a passage in which tobacco is distinctly stated to have been introduced into India by the Frank nations in the year 1609."

    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 Various

  • Each stands independently of any other; you might suppose yourself in a strange city of the _Arabian Nights_ where a great population lived in houses crowded together, but invisibly, so that each person fancied himself in isolation.

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

  • He handed it to Margaret, who felt as if she had been listening to the last chapter of a long story from _The Arabian Nights_.

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • It was a sort of Arabian spell, like that which turned princes and princesses into marble statues in the _Arabian Nights_.

    The New Jerusalem 1905

  • In the story of Kamaralzaman in the _Arabian Nights_ El-Sett

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • "Allah has specially created an angel in Heaven," it is said in the _Arabian Nights_, "who has no other occupation than to sing the praises of the Creator for giving a beard to men and long hair to women."

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

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