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  • And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, which is tall and well-formed and pale of hue: and let us also make monkeys, which resembleth us not in any wise, but are short and ill-formed and hairy.

    Tony Hendra: Not The Bible -- The Ultimate and Eternal Parody 2009

  • El Curtubi, concerning the traditions of the folk of the story of the Bedouin maid and Ibn Menah (Meyyah) of the sons of her uncle and what hangs thereby of the mention of the Khalif El Aamír bi-ahkam-illah, so that their traditions (or tales) upon the garden became like unto El Bettál158 and the Thousand Nights and what resembleth them.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “I found her with her master; and she resembleth thee.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “That which is pressed from white grapes and kept eighty days or more after fermentation: it resembleth not water and indeed there is nothing on the surface of the earth like unto it.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth she, “What is it in thy wife that resembleth me?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Answered Dalilah, O my daughter, I have seen this day a young man who resembleth Calamity

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Brief, she resembleth thee in all her attributes, and on her fingers are seal rings like thy seal rings and her trinkets are as thy trinkets.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The chief eunuch glanced at the nurse and knew her but, seeing a damsel following her, whose charms confounded the reason, he said in his mind, As for the old woman, she is the nurse; but as for the girl who is with her there is none in our land resembleth her in favour or approacheth her in fairness save the Princess Hayat al-Nufus, who is secluded and never goeth out.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Again, there is sometimes in a Commonwealth a disease which resembleth the pleurisy; and that is when the treasury of the

    Leviathan 2007

  • And this kind of public ministers resembleth the nerves and tendons that move the several limbs of a body natural.

    Leviathan 2007

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