Sabba

It happened that the only books in the house were two volumes of Voltaire, and these were taken from the younger pair one dreary Sunday by their stern parents as not proper "Sabba'-day" reading.

The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

The Greeks had clepsydræ and the Romans gnomons, portable and ring-shaped, besides large standing town-dials as at Aquileja and San Sabba near Trieste.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

By ignoring the truth that cleanliness is next to godliness they paved the way for such saints as Simon Stylites and Sabba who, like the lowest Hindu orders of ascetics, made filth a concominant and an evidence of piety: even now English Catholic girls are at times forbidden by

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Both Sabba and Shanku have been detained by police.

Militants turn wedding bells into mourning in Kashmir 2007

And barely ten days before I'd been unbuttoning in that Singapore chop-house, bursting with best meat and drink, and running a lascivious eye over Madame Sabba!

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

For a moment I couldn't make out anything in the gloom, and then I saw that the palki was stopped in a mean-looking street, between dark and shuttered buildings - but of the palki men and Madame Sabba there wasn't a sign.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Between groans, I told him how my palki had been set on by four of them - I didn't say anything about Madame Sabba - and he stopped grinning and looked murderous.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

'D'ye thenk ah'm goin' to cuik till ye on the Sabba 'Day?

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

It made my blood run cold, and my hair stand on eend, to see a company of soldiers marchin 'through the streets last Sabba' day, to the tune of 'Hail Columby;' and then to think of balls and theatres on the

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

This bust belonged to Sabba da Castiglione, who was very proud of it.

Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905