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Examples
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He remembered some papers crossing his desk at the shop, wondering if they could do anything about the musician and the poet,
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When he reached the eighteenth year of his age, tender down468 sprouted, on his side face fresh with youth, from a mole upon one rosy cheek and a second beauty spot, like a grain of ambergris adorned the other; and he won the wits and eyes of every wight who looked on him, even as saith the poet,
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So he embraced her and she embraced him, and he kissed her and she kissed him; then they lay down on the bed of pleasure voluptuous, repeating the words of the poet,
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When she draweth nigh she seduceth and when she turneth her back461 she slayeth; she ravisheth heart and view and she looketh even as saith of her the poet,
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Omniscient; for, by Allah, right well quoth the poet,
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Of a truth Allah had united in her every charm: her shape would shame the branch of waving tree and the rose before her cheeks craved lenity; and the honey dew of her lips of wine made jeer, however old and clear, and she gladdened heart and beholder with joyous cheer, even as saith of her the poet,
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Now each of the youths was passing fair to look upon, and in the bath they were even as saith the poet,
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I entered the sanctuary, and indeed that night was a joy to the sprite and a solace to the sight even as saith the poet,
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Anis al-Jalis, he heard her weeping and singing with a soft sweet voice these lines of the poet,
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When Zau al-Makan had made an end of his versifying he wept and wept with him all the troops; then he came to the grave and threw himself upon it wild with woe, and the Wazir repeated the words of the poet,
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