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Examples

  • If you were only firengi, if you were nothing but an Englishwoman, I would not have returned here tonight, because the Inglezi have no — they have a different sense of what is honourable.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • “You are Inglezi, firengi,” he said: English, a foreigner.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • “You are Inglezi, firengi,” he said: English, a foreigner.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • Tell me, this firengi, this foreigner, has he already bought from you?

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • Tell me, this firengi, this foreigner, has he already bought from you?

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • If you were only firengi, if you were nothing but an Englishwoman, I would not have returned here tonight, because the Inglezi have no — they have a different sense of what is honourable.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • It contained, Abbas informed him with some mystery after one of his prolonged visits to the bazaar, another _firengi_.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Abbas was able to resign himself to this new proof of the eccentricity of his master, the unknown _firengi_ apparently was not.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Let the firengi deal with the firengi,” I suggested, nodding my chin at Holmes in his foreign uniform and hoping fervently that the man we sought, Ellison or no, was indeed British.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • “It appears that while this stranger, this firengi from the north, was concluding his business with the good Mr Bashir, one of Mr Bashir’s colleagues — I assume a son, as he was so embarrassed about the breach of hospitality — took the opportunity to glance through the man’s bags, and happened to see, among other things, a revolver, a sniper’s rifle with an enviable sight, and a monk’s habit.”

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

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