grains!' And drag him here perforce, but without doing him a harm." And they replied, "It is well."...
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soon as he had secured a lodging, he presented himself before the Sultan, who entreated him with hi...
of them, and all flocked round him saying: "We will play a game wherein none shall join save he can...
Allah, he is a pretty fellow!" and at the cry Badr al-Din awoke and found himself lying at a city g...
his beauty and loveliness and his face that shone like the new moon, their hearts inclined to him a...
the meanest of mankind. Save thy dirhams and deem them the sovereignest salve for the wounds of the...
his mule and stayed not till he reached the Wazir's palace. There he dismounted and went in to the ...
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN ALI AND HIS SON BADR AL-DIN HASAN KNOW, O Commander of the Faithful, that in tim...
afraid lest my mother should swinge me on account of the apple, so for fear of her I went with my b...
THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES THEY relate, O King of the Age and Lord of the Time and of these days...
fright you nor shake your steadfast sprite nor turn you back from the faith which is right.' Their ...
ELDEST THE ELDEST LADY'S TALE VERILY a strange tale is mine and 'tis this: Yon two black bitches ...
saffron and blazing with light from branched candelabra of gold and lamps fed with costly oils, whi...
not to thy youthtide's suggestions, and question us no questions." Then they slept and I with them,...
Magnet hight, on whose summit is a horseman of yellow laton seated on a horse also of brass and bea...