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  • The doctor took out his notebook, and made a memorandum as Lawrence flung his arms round the tender-hearted old woman's neck; the professor walked to the window; and Mr Burne whisked out the yellow handkerchief he had worn round his fez, and over which he had made his only joke, that he was so yellow and red, he looked like a fezzan, and blew his nose till the room echoed.

    Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Old Hopley's on the look-out for me, and if I was to shoot that there bird, he'd swear it was a fezzan. "

    Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870

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