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Example sentences for "shiek"

Lexicographically close words:
sheykhs; shibboleth; shibboleths; shid; shied; shield; shielded; shielding; shields; shieling
  1. In a few days, an invitation was sent to them to visit the shiek of Bornou, at Kouka.

  2. Three days afterwards, they arrived at Kouka, where the shiek of Bornou resided.

  3. But one day, when he and I were hunting together, a mad camel trampled the Shiek to his death, and with his last breath he gave the Great Elixir into my keeping.

  4. The Shiek had no son, and the flask was really mine.

  5. In 1846 Pow-e-shiek came with his band to visit his old home.

  6. Farther inland the enemy occupied Shiek Muannis, a prominent village which commanded the whole river.

  7. Meanwhile the other two brigades of the Division were to cross the Auja higher up, and occupy Shiek Muannis and the ground round Khurbet Hadra.

  8. As neither the Shiek nor any of the Heathen in Cairo had ever been at Nuernberg, he had nothing for it but to take this version of the garden from Arabic into German, on the word of the interpreter.

  9. In the mean time, as Shiek Kiamel, Overseer of the Gardens and favourite of the Sultan, was diligently stimulating him to begin the work, he required fifty slaves, as necessary for the execution of his enterprise.

  10. This idea appeared to him so happy, that he lost not a moment in imparting it to his favourite, Shiek Kiamel, and pressing him with the strictest injunctions to realise it as speedily as possible.

  11. His hat was knocked off and trampled into the mud by the Shiek (who was the big Arab), and the precious parcel was seized and ruthlessly opened.

  12. Thereupon the Shiek got up and made a long speech, in which he described his grief at being obliged to refuse the request.

  13. The Shiek hesitated, for he was very superstitious.

  14. But there were some scraps of cloth left, and to show that he was liberal and good-natured, the Shiek ordered these manufactured into a handsome necktie, which he presented Woggle-Bug in another long speech.


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