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  • Quoth the young man, Indeed, when they put to sea with me, meseemed it was a dream and I knew not whither they were wending with me.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Wherewith I raised my eyes to her and saw a rosy palm in a saffron sleeve, meseemed it was the full moon rising splendid in the cloudy

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I cast at him in my turn, a flame of fire, and smote him; but his shaft126 overcame my fire and he cried out at me so terrible a cry that meseemed the skies were fallen flat upon me, and the mountains trembled at his voice.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Highest and thanked Him for His favours and exceeding mercies, and my heart revived in me after utter despair, till meseemed as if all

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As soon as he sighted me sitting at the house-door, he dismounted and coming up to me embraced me and saluted me; and meseemed I embraced the world and all therein.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now as my eyes fell on her, I was captivated by her and my vitals trembled and meseemed my heart flew forth of my breast; so I stood before her and I accosted her with this verse,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When I saw this meseemed the house was all of gold and she said to me, ‘O my son, think not that this is of thy father’s good.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And by Allah, meseemed the doors and the walls and all that was in the house answered and sang with him, for the beauty of his voice, so that I fancied my very limbs and clothes replied to him, and I abode amazed and unable to speak or move, for the trouble of my heart.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Heaven,135 and they calling and signing, 136 ‘Come hither to us’; and meseemed there was below me a lake of water.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And the said witch was clad full fair, and had laid by her sloth and stupid pride, as meseemed; and her limbs were grown rounder and sleeker, and her skin fairer, so that to them that knew her not she might well seem to be a goodly woman.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

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