The soul of Lady Marabout rose elastic at the bare prospect--it would be a great triumph for a chaperone as for a general to conquer a valuable position with a handful of boy recruits.
Cecil's impetuosity invariably knocked Lady Marabout down at one blow, as a ball knocks down the pegs at lawn billiards.
Carruthers, as he went out to follow Goodwood to the Marabout box.
Lady Maraboutplayed a tattoo--slightly perplexed tattoo--with her spoon in her Sevres saucer.
Lady Marabout bowed her head under a grief, before which the worries so great before, the schemes but so lately so precious, the small triumphs just now so all-absorbing, shrank away into their due insignificance.
The Ostrich and Marabout feathers, and those of the Heron, are keenly appreciated by many fair ones, whose beauty the feathers are supposed to greatly enhance.
You would assuredly take the maraboutfor the greatest fool that Africa ever produced; but if three or four thousand marabouts, well entertained at your expense, were to repeat to you the same story, what would you do?
A few hundred yards away I noticed a line of huge Marabout storks.
It was not even certain, if the marabout were threatened and thought himself in danger, that he might not cause the sisters to disappear.
It is best," the marabout said slowly, "that the two sisters go together.
Tell him to steal the child and hide it, making a bargain with the marabout that he shall have it safely back, if he will let thee and thy sister go; otherwise he shall never see it again.
I was telling your friend that the marabout himself has a European wife--who is said to be a great beauty.
The dark eyes blazed above the mask, though still the marabout did not move.
Nevertheless, he did not see how the marabout could manage to play him false, if he wanted to get his boy and hide the truth about himself.
Did--the maraboutseem bent on making this bordj the rendezvous?
Great marabout hangs out there--kind of Mussulman pope of the desert.
The marabout had gone out to meet his son, who had been away from school on a pilgrimage, and returning at dark, to avoid the great heat of the day, had been bitten by a viper.
The young man sat down opposite the door of that inner room from which the marabout had come to greet him the other day, but he did not turn his back fully upon the door behind which were the watchers.
The marabouthimself has told me this, though he does not know that I have sent for thee, and that thou art with me now.
Their dear friend, the good, wise, polite maraboutassures them that rumours of that sort are nonsense.
Already the news had reached the marabout of Temacin, and flashed on to Touggourt.
Domini saw the marabout stop and Batouch bend down, then lift himself up and suddenly move back as if in surprise.
The Arab who was with the marabout seemed also surprised.
The Marabout immediately seized one of the pistols, and, on my giving the signal, took a deliberate aim at me.
The interpreter went out, and soon brought in a dozen old men, among whom were a Marabout and several talebs, whom the bash-aga appeared to hold in great deference.
I had the pleasure of astounding my audience, but the Marabout continued to offer me a systematic opposition, by which his neighbors were visibly annoyed; the poor fellow did not suspect, though, what I had in store for him.
Each lent an attentive ear to these stories, and regarded me with a species of veneration; the Marabout alone displayed a degree of skepticism, and asserted that the spectators had been duped by what he called a vision.
One of them, for instance, ordered a gun to be loaded and fired at him from a short distance, but in vain did the flint produce a shower of sparks; the Marabout pronounced some cabalistic words, and the gun did not explode.
The Marabout began laughing with an incredulous air.
The Marabout quickly put his hand in his waist belt, to assure himself of the truth, and was quite stupefied at finding the five- franc piece.
The Arabs lost all confidence in Marabout "miracles," and thus a dangerous smoldering flame of disaffection to the French was entirely smothered.
Some among them began telling their beads with a vivacity evidencing a certain agitation of mind; but the Marabout frowned without saying a word, and I saw he was spelling over some evil design.
The mystery was simple enough; the gun did not go off because the Marabout had skillfully stopped up the vent.
The Marabout went up to it, dipped his finger in the blood, and, raising it to his mouth, convinced himself of the reality.
The pistols were handed me; I called attention to the fact that the vents were clear, and the Marabout put in a fair charge of powder and drove the wad home.
It often happens that a Marabout shrine will be visited by Moor and Jew, each investing the departed saint with his own peculiar sanctity.
This isle, on the verge of the ocean, contains some little forts and a mosque, and its marabout shrines sparkle in the sun.
The French Government invited Robert-Houdin to go to Algeria and perform before the Arabs in order to show them that a French wizard was greater than a Marabout fakir.
The crowning event of Houdin's life was his embassy to Algeria to counteract the influence of the Maraboutpriests over the ignorant Arabs.
He was a most picturesque figure, for his fancy ran to original headdresses, and at the moment he affected a wonderful upstanding structure made of marabout wings.
FUNDI Fundi, as I have suggested, was built very much on the lines of the marabout stork.
In the tops of the trees roosted tall marabout storks like dissipated, hairless old club-men in well-groomed, correct evening dress.
The marabout and the thaleb strung them together as sayings and legends, the noble (djieud) as traditions, and the common people as proverbs.
Previous to attempting an enterprise of this kind each tribe places itself under the protection of a particular marabout to whom it is in the habit of applying in difficult circumstances.
I was talking one day with a maraboutof the tribe of the Oulad-Sidi-Schik about the horses of his country, and pretended to question some of the opinions he had expressed.
Footnote 85: A small square chapel surmounted by a dome, in which a marabout has usually been interred.
Each lent an attentive ear to these stories, and regarded me with a species of veneration; the Marabout alone displayed a degree of scepticism, and asserted that the spectators had been duped by what he called a vision.
The Marabout quickly put his hand in his waist-belt, to assure himself of the truth, and was quite stupefied at finding the five-franc piece.
The Condor steamed away to the west, and engaged alone and unsupported the Marabout Fort.
The Decoy went of her own accord, and the other gunboats and the Cygnet also moved off to aid in pounding the Marabout Fort.
St. Paul was to a proconsul what a marabout is to our civil Governor of Algeria.
Judge Sharp strove to look decorously concerned, but spite of himself a quiet smile would tremble at the corners of the mouth, as he looked at the two marabout feathers flattened and crushed beneath the impromptu wreath.
Better be thanking heaven that I took you from that miserable poor-house, than fly in the face of Providence in this manner, crushing Leghorn flats and marabout feathers that cost me mints of money, as if they were city property.
Then, as if determined on securing the beautiful marabout feathers, he pulled a large mouthful of them clean out by the roots.
In the centre is an inscription forbidding to the pious admirers of the marabout the use of the fountain while a drop remains in the Hamadouch.
Then the folks of Kalaa would die of thirst were it not for the foresight of a marabout of celebrity, whom chance or miracle caused to discover a hidden spring at the bottom of the rock.
She fanned herself softly with a wide pink satin fan, tipped with marabout feathers, and slowly sipped her tea.
You noticed her the other evening at Government House, arrayed in an extraordinary pea-green, with yellowmarabout feathers on the train?
The marabout tombs, the koubas and the mosques are all Mussulman shrines of the same rank so far as their being holy, sanctified places is concerned.
An excursion to visit the marabout in his humble dwelling, some kilometres away under another little clump of palm-trees, was an almost weekly occurrence.
The marabout is caricatured a little, too, in the name given to a fat-bellied copper coffee-pot frequently met with in the Mediterranean countries.
The marabout in whose honour all this came about was then left in peace to sleep his long sleep undisturbed until the same orgie should be repeated the following year.
A visit to the marabout at El Hamel, fifteen kilometres from Bou-Saada, is one of the things to do.
A marabout is generally in charge of these koubas, as he is with the proper tombs of other holy men.
A marabout who was in the camp induced them to seek refuge in a cave, and hardly had my father entered it with his troops when the treacherousmarabout betrayed his hiding-place to the enemy.
At this moment a loud noise was heard, and the assassins led by the marabout entered Joliette's dungeon.
When he passed the marabout he cried aloud in French: "You old fool, you, what are you staring at?
The marabout was delighted at the effect of his words, and uttering a cry he sprang from his perch and disappeared in the crowd.
The marabout was right, they said, and the crowd demanded the lives of the unfortunates.
We left Captain Joliette at the moment when the savages commanded by the marabout entered his cell, and a voice had called to him: "Do not die, captain!
A strange rumor next reached me that a marabout was preaching immediate massacre, and I knew not whether Captain Joliette was alive or dead.
As the maraboutstork mainly lives on carrion scraps, there was, the doctor considered, questionable taste in Darwin's visits.
It transpired that the giant egg was that of a marabout stork which had nested in a tree a few miles away.
But, if thou dancest not, the city shall know whether Ben-Abid is a truth-teller, and whether the blessings of the great marabout can rest upon such a woman as thou art.
Next day I rode on horseback to Tamacine, asked to see the marabout and told him all the story.
And thou hast said that the hedgehog's foot, blessed by the great marabout of Tamacine, would avail naught against the deadly sickness of a dancing-girl.
Mohammed El Aïd Ben Ali Tidjani, marabout of Tamacine, is a great man in the Sahara Desert.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marabout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anchorite; ascetic; hermit; invalid; outcast; pariah; recluse; solitary
