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  • Allah, O accursed, haddest thou taken aught from me, I would carry thee before the Chief of Police!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nor haddest thou seen the Crow with ill-omened croak a-crying.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now when they saw her and noted her loveliness, they kissed the ground between her hands, marvelling at the fairness of her favour and the significance which showed her inner gifts, and said to her, By Allah, O daughter of the Sovran Supreme, this is indeed a mighty matter: and haddest thou heard tell of this mortal among women thou haddest marvelled at him all thy days.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • By my faith, O dog of Wazirs, haddest thou not counselled me to burn him, I had slaughtered him; for it is he who hath stolen my god and fled; and there is no help but I take brood-wreak of him!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And finishing his poetry he said to Abu al-Hasan, “Hadst thou Dealt more kindly with me thou haddest forewarned me of these things ere I came hither, that I might have made up my mind and taken patience to support what hath befallen me.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “O Moslem, I conjure thee by thy faith and by that wherein thou believest, inform me whence thou haddest this kerchief;” and Nur al-Din replied, “Tis the handiwork of my lady mother,” — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Indeed, haddest thou not repeated those words to me, I had surely slit thy weasand.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For beleeve mee friend, if thou haddest not falne, but quietly gone to sleepe in the house, that sleepe had beene thy last in this world, and with thy money, thou hadst lost thy life likewise.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Halaon made him come before him, and seyde to hym: Why, quoth be, haddest thow not taken with the mo sowdyoures, and men y nowe, for

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And then Halaon made him come before him, and said to him, Why, quoth he, haddest thou not taken with thee more soldiers and men enough, for a little quantity of treasure, for to defend thee and thy country, that art so abundant of treasure and so high in all worship?

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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