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- noun Alternative form of
Qarmatian .
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Examples
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"Your master," said the intrepid Carmathian to the messenger, "is at the head of thirty thousand soldiers: three such men as these are wanting in his host:" at the same instant, turning to three of his companions, he commanded the first to plunge a dagger into his breast, the second to leap into the
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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"Your master," said the intrepid Carmathian to the messenger, "is at the head of thirty thousand soldiers: three such men as these are wanting in his host:" at the same instant, turning to three of his companions, he commanded the first to plunge a dagger into his breast, the second to leap into the
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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“Your master,” said the intrepid Carmathian to the messenger, “is at the head of thirty thousand soldiers: three such men as these are wanting in his host: “at the same instant, turning to three of his companions, he commanded the first to plunge a dagger into his breast, the second to leap into the Tigris, and the third to cast himself headlong down a precipice.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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