herie

He was of a rare and valuable breed, known as "herie," or coursers, because they are so much swifter than ordinary camels.

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Not another family of the tribe possessed a herie.

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The splendid tent of the emir, which first submitted to the blast, passed close to me, flying along with the velocity of the herie, while every other was either levelled to the ground or carried up into the air, and whirled about in mad gyration.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

The last day of our repose, as I was smoking my pipe, with my camels kneeling down around me, I perceived a herie [a swift dromedary] coming from the direction of Cairo, at a very swift pace; it passed by me like

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

Emir which first submitted to the blast, passed close to me, flying along with the velocity of the herie, while every other was either levelled to the ground or carried up into the air, and whirled about in mad gyration.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

You shalt not herie them, and thou shalt not worship hem.

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth ... 1813

But the present case is much stronger; for herie the trust - term for raising this maintenance and portion is come into pos - session, so that at present, the maintenance-money may be raised out of the annual profits; it is like a rent granted out of a reversion to commence presently, in which case, though the

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735] 1790

The last day of our repose, as I was smoking my pipe, with my camels kneeling down around me, I perceived a herie [1] coming from the direction of Cairo, at a very swift pace; it passed by me like a flash of lightning, but still I had sufficient time to recognise in its rider the Maribout who had prophesied evil if my camel was employed to carry the Koran on the pilgrimage of the year before.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820