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  • The Story Girl sparkled through several tales that ranged from the afrites and jinns of

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • The Story Girl sparkled through several tales that ranged from the afrites and jinns of Eastern myth, through the piping days of chivalry, down to the homely anecdotes of Carlisle workaday folks.

    The Story Girl 1908

  • So may have looked afrites or the shapes metamorphosed from the vapour of the fisherman's vase.

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

  • His two body servants were also afrites of the same sly Aladdin.

    A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

  • In the England of that, period original or unknown ideas were a smoking brimstone to the nose, dread Arabian afrites, invisible in the air, jumping out of vases, armed for the slaughter of the venerable and the cherished, the ivy-clad and celestially haloed.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • In the England of that, period original or unknown ideas were a smoking brimstone to the nose, dread Arabian afrites, invisible in the air, jumping out of vases, armed for the slaughter of the venerable and the cherished, the ivy-clad and celestially haloed.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • In the England of that, period original or unknown ideas were a smoking brimstone to the nose, dread Arabian afrites, invisible in the air, jumping out of vases, armed for the slaughter of the venerable and the cherished, the ivy-clad and celestially haloed.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

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