Shaykh

So they delayed not to repair thither and to salute him, and he and those who were with him rose to them and seated them and made much of them, because of the Wazir, whom they saw to be a man in years and of reverend aspect; and viewing the youths Aziz and Taj al-Muluk in his company, they said to one another, “Doubtless our Shaykh is the father of these two youths.”

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Shaykh is one of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island.

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Shaykhah, the fem. of Shaykh, is a she-chief, even the head of the dancing-girls will be entitled

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So he said to the Gardener, “O Shaykh, is this garden thine own or dost thou hire it?”

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Easterns are inordinately fond of the practice and the wild Arabs often sit up till dawn, talking over the affairs of the tribe, indeed a Shaykh is expected to do so.

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A learned Indian Shaykh has mistaken the Arabic word

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386 The verses are very mal-a-propos, like many occurring in The Nights, for the maligned Shaykh is proof against all the seductions of the pretty boy and falls in love with a woman after the fashion of Don

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338 Here the Shaykh is mistaken: he should have said, The Sun in old

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Al – Mutawakkil which I knew for that which the damsel had entered; but the Shaykh was at a loss for a device.

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So they delayed not to repair thither and to salute him, and he and those who were with him rose to them and seated them and made much of them, because of the Wazir, whom they saw to be a man in years and of reverend aspect; and viewing the youths Aziz and Taj al-Muluk in his company, they said to one another, "Doubtless our Shaykh is the father of these two youths."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855