felek

Upon this reflection the doctor began to be alarmed at what he had said at the outset of his speech; and, with all the terrors of the felek before him, he seemed quite reconciled to the loss of his five tomauns.

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For our own sakes, we were obliged to start fair, and we laid on until he roared sufficiently; and then, having ably made him increase his offer until he had bid up to any price we wished, we gradually ceased beating his feet, and only broke our sticks over the felek.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

Before I was a naib, and when I was called upon to lay the bastinado on some wretched culprit, many is the time that my compassion has been moved by a direct appeal to my purse; and then, instead of beating the sufferer’s feet, I struck the felek upon which they rested.

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He was ordered to receive the bastinado, and, by way of distinction, a small carpet was spread for him to lie upon: I and another were the operators, whilst two more held the felek.

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Bring the _felek_, [28] said he to his officers, ‘and lay on till his nails drop off.

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He said that if once he were brought to the felek to receive the bastinado, he knew that he could not survive it; for so universal a terrorist had he been when operating upon the feet of others, that now he felt he should be treated without the least mercy; and he therefore swore upon the Korân, that he would undergo every misery rather than be tied to the stake.

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Ali, go on with the story and remember my injunction; the felek and ferashes are at hand. "

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

Ali, go on with the story, and remember my injunction; the felek and ferashes are at hand. "

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820