FN#203] The Fellah had a natural fear of being seen in fine gear, which all would have supposed to be stolen goods; and Alaeddin was justified in taking it perforce, because necessitas non habet legem.
Herewith he arose and, issuing from the pavilion door, walked till he met on the way a Fellah to whom he said, "O man, take my attire and give me thy garments.
For his story had gone abroad, and it was said that he was mad--none but a madman would throw away his life for a fellah woman.
What should he know of that love which springs once in every woman's heart, be she fellah or Pharaoh's daughter?
Among them was Seti, now married to Ahassa, the fellahmaid for whom the grindstone had fallen on Ebn Haroun's head.
And then El-Bedrawee and his fellah kinsman, and all the crew blessed me and the Captain, and the cawass said it was time to sail.
We now know the name of our ruler,' said a fellah who had just heard of it, 'he is Mawas Pasha.
Among the poor fellah women it may be true enough, but not nearly as much as in Germany; and I have now seen a considerable number of Levantine ladies looking very handsome, or at least comely, till fifty.
A Fellah wedding is very like the German Bauern hochzeit firing of guns and display of household goods, only on a camel instead of a cart.
Cawass battant, Fellah rampant, and Fellaha pleurant would be the proper blazon.
Of course he got tired, and on the way home I told him to jump up behind me en croupe after the Fellah fashion.
All that honour to the money of the Jew,' said an old fellah to me with a tone of scorn which I could not but echo in my heart.
The corn is now full-sized here, but still green; in twenty days will be harvest, and I am to go to the harvest-home to a fellah friend of mine in a village a mile or two off.
God is merciful) said fellah Omar, 'I have one left from fifty-four.
He is the son of some fellah of Lower Egypt, sent to study at Pisa, and has not lost the Arab gentility and elegance by a Frenghi education.
The tent or hut of a Turkman is always surrounded by three or four others, in which the Fellah families live who cultivate his land.
The oppressions of the government on one side, and those of the Bedouins on the other, have reduced the Fellah of the Haouran to a state little better than that of the wandering Arab.
Lizzie'll think herself much, havin' a town fellah stoppin' at their place.
Unlest you'd ruther marry a town fellah and give up your job out here.
As Monkey passing, Tiger was into a stone-hole an' jump out on the fellah an' catch him.
Just then that cravin' fellah Mr. Annancy was passing an' see Rabbit with his load.
Now that little smart fellah Toad says to the King that he doesn't fix up his business yet, an' will he grant him a little time.
That little bit a fellah Toad can't manage me, so I must have plenty of time to eat some grass.
When Fire see all the clothes he say to Breeze:--"See that fellah Annancy yard.
When that ugly fellah Mr. John Crow hear it he study between himself an' get a carriage with his pair of horses an' his coachman, an' the carpet in the carriage was a gold carpet.
An' when you yerry that fellah Mr. Donkey bawl, you must bawl too.
When we nearly get to the place we blow, make the fellahknow that man a come.
Danged if I know how an old fellah in his bed-room muddles away money at that rate.
I can lick a big fellah to pot as limp as a rag, by George!
It's enough to make a fellah sware, or cry a'most.
He then cried with a loud voice, "Bring in purses of gold, and let also the fellah and rods for the bastinado be brought in.
I am by birth (as my dress denotes) a fellah of this country, but I was not always so poor as I am now.
A most curious case was that of a Fellah woman who was delivered at Alexandria of a bicephalic monster of apparently eight months' pregnancy.
If a fellah was passed by the doctor a gendarme gripped him and pummelled him all the way to the standard, where he was measured.
Suddenly he leapt from behind the buffalo upon the fellah and smothered his mouth in the white cloth he had brought.
I have some Berberine servants, two fellah boatmen, an Egyptian gardener, an Arab cook, and a Circassian maid.
The gagged fellah had managed to free his mouth, and though his feet were bound also and he could not loose them, he gave a loud call for help.
Near by the fellah worked in his onion-field; and on the khiassas loaded with feddan at the shore, just out of the current, and tied up for the night, sat the riverine folk eating their dourha and drinking black coffee.
Even this was not unaccompanied by danger, for the Mahommedan mind could not at first tolerate the idea of a lady going unveiled; only fellah women, domestic cattle, bared their faces to the world.
It was impossible to open it without thefellah on the water-wheel seeing him.
Now, it was a peculiar thing that Ibrahim's pronunciation grew worse every time; which goes to show that a combination of Soudanese and fellah doesn't make a really clever villain.
For my soul is with you for Egypt, O friend of thefellah and saviour of the land.
Then he sat down where the fellah had sat, and the sakkia droned its mystic music over the river, the desert, and the plain.
I saw a fellah yesterday who has worked nine months on the corvee--six months for the Government and three for a Pasha, the friend of the Government.
I seem to hear some Fellah speaking to me from the door of his clay hut.
FN#472] The Fellah will use in fighting anything in preference to his fists and a stone tied up in a kerchief or a rag makes no mean weapon for head-breaking.
And when the Fellah entered the hut she served to them the platter which contained their supper, and they ate the whole thereof, she sitting by intent upon their action and expecting their death.
After this he carried off the early meal for his master and faring to the field set it before him and when the Fellah looked upon it he cried, "O Boy, by Allah this bread is white and 'tis clean unlike the foregone.
Say, it makes my eyes water sometimes to see the fellah slogging away.
I know that, Prince Pasha of Egypt as thou art, thou art as bound to me as any fellah that agrees to tend my door or row my boat.
Though I am in truth a Turk, and those who serve and rob me here are Turks, yet the fellah is the same as he was five thousand years ago.
And, if riches could be got, as this pale Frank proposed, by less extortion from the fellah and less kourbash, so much the happier for all.
Yet there was in the eyes of Kaid a watchfulness unseen by any save a fellah who squatted in a corner eating sweetmeats, and a hidden singer waiting until she should be called before the Prince Pasha.
To them the disguise was very repugnant, for the Arabs looked down with supreme contempt upon the fellah population of Egypt.
Well, I'se been doing it now for ovah a month an' Ah habent seen no nice fellah yet; in fact, Ah habent seen a fellah of any kind.
Oh dear yes--living in Tavistock Square--fellah made money, somehow.
But then I'm the sort of fellah nobody ever tells things to.
Some other fellah might come along and pick you up when I wasn't looking; and I don't want to miss yah.
Higginson's a splendid fellah for his place, yah know, Miss Cayley,' Lord Southminster said to me one evening as we were approaching Aden.
Hang it all, what does it mattah who a fellah is if he can give yah good shooting?
I remembah Torricelli--he's the fellah who used to paint all his women crooked.
The black fellah discovahed I was a cousin of Harold's, so he came to call upon me at the club, of which some Johnnies heah made me an honorary membah.
Sometimes a fellah feels lonely, and would like to have a nice young woman, to tell her how lonely he feels.
I look at them girls and feel as the fellah did when he missed catchin' the trout.
Various circumstances have combined to render the actual condition of the Egyptian fellah extremely precarious.
Among the prominent fellah officers was a certain Ali Fehmi, who was a favourite of the Khedive, and in command of the Guards at the Palace.
His father was a fellah possessing a few acres of land, and working it himself.
Osman was a Circassian, and felt hurt at receiving orders from a fellah officer.
Those recruited from the Soudan were men possessed of considerable endurance and warlike qualities, but those taken from the other districts, that is, the ordinary fellah or agricultural class, had no taste for war.
The majority of them were of Egyptian orfellah origin, whilst the others were of Turkish or Circassian extraction.
The latter, as belonging to the same race as the reigning family, naturally constituted the dominant caste; when there was a campaign in the Soudan, or any other unpleasant duty to be taken in hand, the fellah officers were selected for it.
The fellah subaltern, captain, or colonel had seldom been able to acquire the prestige or authority necessary for maintaining discipline during peace and for effective leading in the presence of the enemy.
This was no hardship to the poorfellah who had spent his life in agricultural labour.
He is the equivalent of the Bedawi of to-day, who still hovers on the Egyptian borders, and between whom and the fellah there is perpetual feud.
There, too, the Osiris of the fellah would work for the Osiris of the wealthy, whose necessary task would thus be performed vicariously.
De fellah in dat rowboat wif de pipe is Honnerbull Tawm Patterson, en he's done took me by de han' mo' times dan Ah kin count.
Ef you-all thinks Ah'm er ignorampus, den Ah 'lows Ah ain't defellah you wants tuh hiah.
Ring the gong where the fellahis who lets down the door.
And when we hear the second fellah hit the floor and start breakin' up the home we can pull the string and let down the trap-door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fellah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: countryman; hind; peasant; peon; provincial
