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words from Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. ... Then King Shahryar, having sealed the missive and given it is to the Wazir with the...
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Dec 2, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted. ...
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Dec 2, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted. ...
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Dec 3, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted. ...
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Dec 4, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted. ...
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Dec 5, 2004
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i happened to watch a movie "Intolerable Cruelty (2003)" and in it contained a bantering, between a man and a woman. Among which goes: Dismiss your vows, your...
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Dec 6, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted....
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Dec 6, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted....
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Dec 7, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted....
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Dec 8, 2004
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the previous installment of A Modest Proposal with interesting words highlight can now be found at: ...
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Dec 8, 2004
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The following is a section from Arabian Nights (~1500), translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Interesting words or phrases are highlighted....
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Dec 9, 2004
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Word of the day: divulged, "very fear", provaunt, byre, livelong,chaff. ... THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS KNOW, O my daughter, that there was once a...
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Dec 10, 2004
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Word of the day: raiment, manger, paunch, haply, feign. ... THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS (continued from yesterday) When the bull ceased speaking, the ass...
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Dec 11, 2004
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the highlighted version of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS (ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH) STORY OF KING SHAHRYAR AND HIS BROTHER is at ...
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Dec 11, 2004
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Word of the day: rede, requite, drubbed, stable, whereat, ramped, rascal, repent, officiousness, saw. ... THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS (continued from...
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Dec 12, 2004
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Word of the day: solicitude, terrace, counterfeit crank, break wind, whisked and frisked. ... THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS (continued from yesterday) And...
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Dec 13, 2004
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Word of the day: vouchsafe, importune, repaired, ablution,Chanticleer,clarionest** ... THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS (continued from yesterday) Whereupon...
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Dec 14, 2004
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word of the day: lackwit, dame, partlets, strait, mulberry, basting, tattle. "Then by Allah," quoth the cock, "is our master a lackwit and a man scanty of...
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Dec 15, 2004
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word of the day: hearken, desolate, delectable, ail,gree. Hereupon the Wazir, being weary of lamenting and contending, persuading and dissuading her, all to no...
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Dec 16, 2004
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The Tale of the Bull and the Ass, with interesting words and phrases highlighted: http://xahlee.org/p/arabian_nights/an2.html Xah xah@... ...
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Dec 16, 2004
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word of the day: withal, noontide, thereat, extempore, skein, anon, buffet, fain. IT hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was a fisherman well...
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Dec 17, 2004
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word of the day: doff, haled, potsherds, verily, fie,dinars,pitchfork, lowering. The fisherman, when he had looked at the dead ass, got it free of the toils...
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Dec 18, 2004
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word of the day: gainsay, cucurbit, wherefore, retribution, hehest. Now when the fisherman saw the Ifrit, his side muscles quivered, his teeth chattered, his...
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Dec 19, 2004
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word of the day: contumacious, boon, sooth, saw, wrought, weal, wights, hap, compass, frowardness. The fisherman, hearing the words of the Ifrit, said, "O...
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Dec 21, 2004
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word of the day: stoppered, boon, limbo, cozened, abased, spurn, supplication, cunning,weal, tyrannous, covenant. Quoth the fisherman: "How didst thou fit into...
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Dec 23, 2004
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word of the day: piddle,covenant, respite, stalked,tarn, varicolored, Godspeed, clove, asunder. The fisherman accepted his promises on both conditions, not to ...
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Dec 23, 2004
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word of the day: conformation, bondmaiden, baste, kohl, enchase, tasseled, convenant, apparition. The fisherman, much marveling at what had happened to him...
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Dec 23, 2004
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word of the day: tarn, convenant, ere, fie, privily. After this the young lady upset the frying pan and went forth by the way she came in and the kitchen wall...
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Dec 25, 2004
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word of the day: wold, bivouac,emir, nabob, chamberlain, ill at ease, haply. They fared on till they had climbed the mountain and descended unto a great desert...
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Dec 26, 2004
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word of the day: swart,rapped, mustered, wayfarer, aught, victual,stalk, vestibule, saloon, dais, fount, diaphanous. Presently, drawing near the dark object,...
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