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  • “Welcome and hail to one with generous gifts engraced!”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • King Azadbakht, and seeing him as he were the moon, a model of beauty and loveliness, bright of face and engraced with grace, asked him, "Who is thy father, and how camest thou with these banditti?"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Deign grant thy favours; since 'tis time I were engraced, v. 148.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Welcome and hail to one with generous gifts engraced!"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • So he went away and returned after a little, bringing a damsel in richest raiment robed, a maid spear-straight of stature and five feet tall; budding of bosom with eyes large and black as by Kohl traced, and dewy lips sweeter than syrup or the sherbet one sips, a virginette smooth cheeked and shapely faced, whose slender waist with massive hips was engraced; a form more pleasing than branchlet waving upon the top-most trees, and a voice softer and gentler than the morning breeze, even as saith one of those who have described her,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Deign grant thy favours; since ’tis time I were engraced, v. Describe me!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Deign grant thy favours; since ’tis time I were engraced;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he went away and returned after a little, bringing a damsel in richest raiment robed, a maid spear-straight of stature and five feet tall; budding of bosom with eyes large and black as by Kohl traced, and dewy lips sweeter than syrup or the sherbet one sips, a virginette smooth cheeked and shapely faced, whose slender waist with massive hips was engraced; a form more pleasing than branchlet waving upon the top-most trees, and a voice softer and gentler than the morning breeze, even as saith one of those who have described her,

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Said I to Slim-waist who the wine engraced * Brought in musk-scented bowl and a superfine,

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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