word of the day: kohl, hammam, apparel. I enjoyed their company till the time came for rest, and our heads were all warm with wine, when they said, “O our...
word of the day: perforce, contraire, charge, injunction. With her I spent a most goodly night, and, to be brief, O my mistress, I remained with them in all...
word of the day: nowise,rills,wimpling, terrene, sprite, litanies, parcel. When I saw her weeping I said, “By Allah, I will never open that fortieth door,...
word of the day:morrow... Then I went out of the place and locked the door as it was before. When it was the morrow I opened the second door, and entering...
word of the day: saffron, censers, lign. Then I unlocked the door of the fourth chamber, and therein found a grand saloon with forty smaller chambers giving...
Here's some more info about the plants and animal names in the text. [ • pietra dura = marbe inlaid with designs in precious or semi-precious stonework....
word of the day: manger, husk,cozened,hammered,neigh, sojourn. Presently, O my lady, I espied a noble steed, black as the murks of night when murkiest,...
the following concludes the third kalandar's tale. Finding them reject me thus, I foresaw that matters would go hard with me, and I remembered the many...
Words of animal's sounds while reading about the horse that neighed, i thought of words that characterize animal's cries. Here's a list: horses neigh, donkeys...
word of the day: sisters-german,mantilla,reed, bouillon. 9. THE ELDEST LADY'S TALE VERILY a strange tale is mine and 'tis this: Yon two black bitches are my ...
word of the day: weal, levant, in the lurch, redouble. I entreated her with all kindliness and she abode with me a whole year, during which our thoughts and...
word of the day: in the offing, threaded, dispersed, thoroughfare. I took my two sisters and we went a-voyaging some days and nights, but the master was...
word of the day: purfled, diadem, parget, bosses, chryselephantine. As for myself, I went up to the castle, which was strongly fortified, and, entering the...
word of the day:whither,coverlet,chink,oratory Then I would have gone forth, but knowing not the gate, I lost my way, so I returned to the alcove whither the...
word of the day: magians, rote, redouble, transfigure. “Hearing is obeying! Know, O handmaid of Allah, that this city was the capital of my father who is the...
word of the day:metamorphose, Ulema. “One day while they were as wont, behold, they heard a loud and terrible sound and a crier crying out with a voice like...
word of the day: Now as we sat talking, my sisters asked me, “And what wilt thou do with this handsome young man?” and I answered, “I purpose to make him...
word of the day: loll, wrought,Marid. As soon as the sun had risen I spread my garments to dry in its rays, and ate of the fruits of the island and drank of...
word of the day: truce, gibe, wight, losel, brave. 10. THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES Arabian Nights, Sir Richard Burton, ~1850 THEY relate, O King of the Age...
word of the day: wherewithal, hanker, riverward, worsted,mantilla. When the Caliph heard his verses, he said to Ja'afar, “See this poor man and note his...
word of the day: dotage. Then they set up the gallows and made Ja'afar and the others stand underneath in readiness for execution, but whilst every eye was...
word of the day:larded, ethnology, cant. i'm quite pissed to realize that the version i've been studying of Sir Richard Francis Burton's Arabian Nights is...
word of the day: bastinado So the Caliph was certified that the young man was the murderer, whereat he wondered and asked him: “What was the cause of thy...
word of the day: wittol,ducats, swinge. “So I left my house and betaking me to my shop, sat there buying and selling. And about midday, behold, a great ugly...
word of the day: beset, crock, craft, cunning. “When I heard what my child said, I knew that the slave was he who had foully slandered my wife, the daughter...
word of the day: wee, fie. Presently in came a messenger from the Caliph and said to him: “The Commander of the Faithful is in the most violent rage that can...
word of the day: glade, pith When feeding is done, the apes relax. In a sunny glade in an otherwise deeply shaded forest, six chimpanzees sack out after the...
word of the day: scamper, quarry. “Rhhooff!” Suddenly the peaceful moment is shattered by a hunting bark from a hundred yards away. Everyone lurches awake,...
word of the day: dapple Wild chimpanzees in the dappled forest teaching and learning, playing, communicating with invented signals, doctoring themselves, using...
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