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The Arab sheykh whose people cultivated it was as ready to pay tribute to the Spaniard as to the Corsair.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

"This Christian," shrieked the good sheykh, running as hard as he could, "looks as if he rather wanted to kill me than to be killed himself."

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

They stopped the tribute, and called in the aid of Salim, the neighbouring Arab sheykh, whose clansmen would make the city safe on the land side.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

Another time it was a devout Moslem sheykh who begged 'Ali to give him a Christian slave to kill, as he did not feel that he had offered any sufficiently pleasing sacrifice to the prophet Mohammed.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

(Then that ‘Efrit, the half of whom was in the pillar, said to the sheykh ‘Abd-Es-Samad, while those around him listened,) And thereupon I entered the body of the idol, by reason of my ignorance, and the paucity of my sense, and my solicitude respecting the affair of Suleyman, and recited this couplet: —As for me, I am not in fear of him; for I am acquainted with everything.

Nights 566-578. The Story of the City of Brass. 1909

The soldiers proceeded, with the sheykh Abd-Es-Samad before them shewing them the way, until all the first day had passed, and the second, and the third.

Nights 566-578. The Story of the City of Brass. 1909

When the sheykh, continued Shahrazad, observed the tears of the calf, his heart sympathized with him, and he said to the herdsman, Let this calf remain with the cattle.

Nights 1-3. The Story of the First Sheykh and the Gazelle. 1909

Then he feasted him with fish, and ordered the divers to bring up from the sea some of the bottles of Suleyman; and they brought up for them twelve bottles; wherewith the Emir Musa was delighted, and the sheykh ‘Abd-Es-Samad also, and the soldiers, on account of the accomplishment of the affair of the Prince of the Faithful.

Nights 566-578. The Story of the City of Brass. 1909

THEN said the sheykh, Know, O ‘Efrit, that this gazelle is the daughter of my paternal uncle, and she is of my flesh and my blood.

Nights 1-3. The Story of the First Sheykh and the Gazelle. 1909

The second sheykh, the owner of the two hounds, then advanced, and said to the Jinni, If I relate to thee the story of myself and these hounds, and thou find it to be in like manner wonderful, wilt thou remit to me, also, a third of thy claim to the blood of this merchant?

Nights 1-3. The Story of the First Sheykh and the Gazelle. 1909