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So having determined upon this he called the Sworder and bade him strike off Kanmakan's head upon the spot and forthright, when lo! up came Rumzan's nurse and said to him, "O auspicious
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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So having determined upon this he called the Sworder and bade him strike off Kanmakan’s head upon the spot and forthright, when lo! up came Rumzan’s nurse and said to him, “O auspicious King, what purposest thou?”
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Hereupon the Sworder stepped forward and bound the Sage
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So the Sworder came forward after they were seated on the leather of blood; 634 then drawing his blade, struck off one head after another until he had smitten the neck of the tenth; and I alone remained.
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Rashid said to Masrur the Sworder, “Dost thou laugh to make mock of me or hath madness seized thee?”
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They brought us into thy presence, and thou gayest an order to smite the necks of the ten; yet did I not make myself known to thee and remained silent before the Sworder, purely of my great generosity and courtesy which led me to share with them in their death.
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Caliph, who called Masrur his Sworder, and said to him, “Go straightway and fall upon the house of Abu al-Kasim al-Sandalani and bring me him and the young lady.”
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So they fetched the Sworder and he said, “0 King of the Age, I have smitten off his head even as thou badest me.”
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His servants found him murdered in his palace, and beside him the ring of Keluka the Sworder.
Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968
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This black upon his heels might have been the grinning, faithful executioner of some Khedive or Caliph -- he might have been the very Masrur, the Sworder of Vengeance of Al
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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