Khalif's

Asked if King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalif's pro-U.S. government could survive the challenge to its rule, Rice said: "I wouldn't want to be in the business of predictions in this very volatile environment."

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But the arrival of these reinforcements added new fuel to the old feuds of the Beni-Modhar, and the Yemenis or Beni-Kahttan; and a desperate civil war raged till 746, when the Khalif's lieutenant, the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

And Abou-Zeid was obliged to lay the jar filled with fat, and the sack of flour, on the Khalif's back.

The Buried Temple Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

Khalif's letter, and he read it, then tore it in pieces and putting it in his mouth, chewed it and threw it away.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

The Khalif's mind was troubled at her doings and his breast contracted and he could not restrain his impatience to know the meaning of all this.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

'O my lady,' replied the old woman, 'the time of the Khalif's return is at hand; but do thou send for a carpenter and bid him make a figure of wood in the shape of a corpse.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

Khalif's approach, spread straw in the vestibules, and when the

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

We abode thus awhile, till she said to me, one day, 'It befits not that we continue in the Khalif's palace: for none ever came hither but thou, and thou wonst not in but by the grace of the Lady Zubeideh.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

Muin, 'this fellow hath never seen the Khalif nor his Vizier: but he is a gallows-bird, a crafty imp who, happening upon a blank [FN#115] sheet in the Khalif's handwriting, hath written his own desire in it.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

When he came up and saw the crowd and turmoil, he enquired what was the matter and was told how it stood with Noureddin Ali, whereupon he hastened to go in to the Sultan and saluting him, acquainted him with his errand and the Khalif's determination, in case of any foul play having befallen Noureddin, to destroy whosoever should have been the cause of it.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879