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  • Her portrait is wroughten on the tunic that was in the bundle given thee by Solomon, prophet of

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Here he made them sit and set before them a scarlet tray-cloth of goodly workmanship and unique handiwork, wroughten in gold with figures of breaker and broken, lover and beloved, asker and asked, whereon he ranged precious vessels of porcelain and crystal, full of the costliest confections, fruits and flowers, and brought them a flagon of old Greek wine.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He spread it out and saw on the lining386 of the back, the portraiture wroughten in gold of a girl and marvellous was her loveliness; and no sooner had he set eyes on the figure than his reason fled his head and he became Jinn-mad for love thereof, so that he fell down in a swoon and presently recovering, began to weep and lament, beating his face and breast and kissing her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then Masrur looked at the breast of her shift and behold, thereon lay wroughten in red gold this verse,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then we waited awhile and presently returning thither, found that the sun had wroughten on the grape-juice and it was become wine.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For that was he vexed and wrathful, and he would not it had so chanced for all his host's halls, were they of wroughten gold!

    The Romance of Morien Jessie Laidlay Weston 1889

  • Before it was a bridge, the length whereof was an hundred and fifty cubits and its breadth fifty cubits, and it was [wroughten] of the rib of a fish; whilst at the other end of the bridge were many warriors [84] of the Jinn, gruesome and terrible of aspect, and all of them bore in their hands javelins of steel that flashed in the sun like winter lightning.

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • But the most marvellous of all was that he saw in the palace an upper hall [477] and [478] a belvedere [479] with four-and-twenty oriels, all wroughten of emeralds and rubies and other jewels, and of one of these oriels the lattice-work was by his desire left unfinished, [480] so the Sultan should fail of its completion.

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • Lady Bedrulbudour, and when he came up and did off her veil, she fell to gazing upon the bride's beauty and grace and looked at the pavilion, the which was all wroughten [497] of gold and jewels and therein were golden lustres, all embossed with emeralds and rubies; and she said in herself,

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • Al-Aziz ordered him a costly robe of honour and expended monies galore, giving unto each who had wroughten after the measure of his work.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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