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Examples
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Lane and his "Sheykh" (i. 617) have tried and failed.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The president was reminded by Sheykh Jafar Shajuni, who implicitly compared him to a television set and the Supreme Leader to its owner, that Khamenei wished to "fix and keep" him rather than replace him.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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The president was reminded by Sheykh Jafar Shajuni, who implicitly compared him to a television set and the Supreme Leader to its owner, that Khamenei wished to "fix and keep" him rather than replace him.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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The president was reminded by Sheykh Jafar Shajuni, who implicitly compared him to a television set and the Supreme Leader to its owner, that Khamenei wished to "fix and keep" him rather than replace him.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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The president was reminded by Sheykh Jafar Shajuni, who implicitly compared him to a television set and the Supreme Leader to its owner, that Khamenei wished to "fix and keep" him rather than replace him.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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"A nice resting place," said Jack Ryder appreciatively of the tomb of the Sheykh-el-Gauchy.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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Mokattam hills behind it, to that hilltop on which stood the little ancient mosque of the Sheykh-el-Gauchy, where the sunset spaces flowed round them like a sea of light and the world dropped into miniature at their feet.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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O Sheykh of the Efrits, said the fisherman, do I act kindly towards thee, and dost thou recompense me with baseness?
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We will call upon the Sheykh to-morrow and cry off the bargain, because your Honour caught a touch of fever from the land to-day.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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He gave the Sheykh the belt, but kept the money. '
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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