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  • We reached the summit after a day’s march of nine hours and three quarters, and rested upon a high plain, called Raml el Morak

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

  • The iambic movement has a ring of gladness about it, the trochaic a wail of sadness: the former resembles a nimble pedestrian, striding apace with an elastic step and a cheerful heart; the latter is like a man toiling along on the desert path, where his foot is ever and anon sliding back in the burning sand (Raml, whence probably the name of the metre).

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Rames (Raml�), o� nous nous rendimes de Jaffe, est une ville sans murailles, mais bonne et marchande, sise dans un canton agr閍ble et fertile.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The most common species -- and in some cases the entire flight seems to be composed of this kind only -- is the Aeschna bonariensis Raml, the prevailing colour of which is pale blue.

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

  • [FN#220] Alluding to the "Takht Raml," table of sand, geomantic table?

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • = (Science of the sand) our geomancy, see vol.iii. 269, and D'Herbelot's sub.v. Raml or Reml.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • It may be a clerical error for "Zaraba Raml" = he struck sand, i.e., made geomantic figures.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The Nights speak of a "Takht Raml" or a board, like a schoolboy's slate, upon which the dots are inked instead of points in sand.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The Local Coordination Committees said Assad's forces killed at least two people in Latakia, including 13-year-old Mohammad Shohan, hit by sniper fire in the Raml al-Filistini slum district, bringing the death toll to 36 in four days.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • A senior Palestinian official condemned the Latakia violence, which the United Nations said had forced between 5,000 and 10,000 Palestinians to flee the Al Raml refugee camp.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

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