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  • Who sendeth the holy Prophets and garreth the streams to flow and the trees to grow, who vaulted the heavens and spread out the earth like a carpet below

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But now I crave of thy favour that thou give me one of thy castles outlying the rest, that I may abide there the remnant of my life, for as the sayer of bywords saith, ‘Absence from my friend is better and fitter for me’; and, ‘Whatso eye doth not perceive, that garreth not heart to grieve.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “I have never seen the Sultan light at heart all this while till the present night, and his pleasure garreth me hope that the issue for thee with him may be a happy issue.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth he, “O folk, what garreth you weep?” and they told him all that had happened, especially how the two Marids had carried off his brother

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Answered the wolf O thou wily trickster, what garreth thee hope to work my deliverance and thine own, that thou prayest me to grant thee delay?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • What garreth them think of their father at this time and call upon him, albeit it is not of their wont?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They saw him weeping and wailing and said to him, "What is thy case and what garreth thee shed tears?"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Quoth he, "O folk, what garreth you weep?" and they told him all that had happened, especially how the two Marids had carried off his brother Khirad Shah; whereupon the light of his eyes became night and he said, "By the virtue of my faith, I will certainly slay Gharib and all his men and leave not one alive to tell the tale!"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Victorious, the One, Creator of night and day and the sphere revolving alway * Who sendeth the holy Prophets and garreth the streams to flow and the trees to grow, who vaulted the heavens and spread out the earth like a carpet below * Who feedeth the birds in their nests and the wild beasts in the deserts * for He is Allah the All-powerful, the Forgiving, the Long-suffering, the

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • I take half of his good and return him the rest publicly before the folk and dismiss him to his house, in all honour and worship, and he garreth the money returned be carried before him, whilst he blesseth me and all who are with him also bless me.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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