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He sent this word to the sergeant by Yusef the drunken ghaffir: "Give me to another sunset and sunrise, and what I have is thine -- three black donkeys of Assiout rented to old Abdullah the sarraf."
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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England at the front door, do the bowab and the sarraf go out to take air on the housetops, and watch the sun set on the Pyramids and make a rainbow of the desert?
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Oh, the price!" murmured Dicky, and he seemed to study the sleepy sarraf who pored over his accounts in the garden.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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I've put the barber in prison, and given the sarraf twenty lashes for certifying that the death of the son of the Mamour was el aadah -- the ordinary.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Copt, the sarraf of the village, who could read English fairly.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Kingsley Bey's response to the appeal was a letter to the lady, brought by a sarraf, a mamour and six slaves, beautifully mounted and armed, saying that he had been deeply moved by her appeal, and as a proof of the effect of her letter, she might free the six slaves of his embassy.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Kingsley Bey's response to the appeal was a letter to the lady, brought by a sarraf, a mamour and six slaves, beautifully mounted and armed, saying that he had been deeply moved by her appeal, and as a proof of the effect of her letter, she might free the six slaves of his embassy.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Oh, the price!" murmured Dicky, and he seemed to study the sleepy sarraf who pored over his accounts in the garden.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897
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I've put the barber in prison, and given the sarraf twenty lashes for certifying that the death of the son of the Mamour was el aadah -- the ordinary.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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England at the front door, do the bowab and the sarraf go out to take air on the housetops, and watch the sun set on the Pyramids and make
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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