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A brief image flashes through my mind: me, standing by the piano in the auditorium, singing “O Waly, Waly” for Mr. Elton.
Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 2010
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We halted for the night, a little way beyond Dar el Waly, at
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Firmaans, but Yemak soon obliged me to give up this idea; he began cursing and swearing in Turkish, and then calling an old cripple, to whom he had given the title of Waly, or police-officer, he ordered him to tie my hands, to put me in prison, and to bring my slave and baggage into his presence.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Waly (والي) or governor of Souakin, and has therefore the right to send a representative here; a right which has never been disputed by the
Travels in Nubia 2004
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Shaykh Waly al-Din the Kadiri, from his sire and Shaykh Zayn al-Din the Kadiri, from his sire and Shaykh Sharafil al-Din the Kadiri, from his sire and Shaykh Mohammed al-Hattak the Kadiri, from his sire and Shaykh Abd al-Aziz — Allah sanctify his honoured
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Perhaps the phenomenon can be explained by the fact that we believe we are reading Po Chü-i and instead we are reading the wonderful counterfeiter Arthur Waly?
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Since that young farmer lay still with me. see also Butcher's Boy There is a Tavern in the Town Waly Waly (Jamie Douglas) Water is Wide tune transcribed by Karen Myers from singing of Isla Cameron
Died for Love 1969
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The text of the song _Waly, waly_, I take from Ramsay's _Tea-Table Miscellany_.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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_Waly, waly_, is not a ballad at all, and is only included because it has become confused with _Jamie Douglas_.
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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I have printed the song _Waly, waly_ not because it can be considered a ballad, but simply because it is so closely interwoven with _Jamie
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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