26 Metaphors for arabs

The Arab, or Moorish kingdoms along the African coast of the Indian ocean, are branches from the same original stem, and the early Mahometan missionaries were both zealous and successful in propagating Islaemism among the most distant pagan colonies of their countrymen.

The Jazirat-ul-Arab is the area bounded by the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the waters of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

As long as they get a fight they don't mind who it's for; but if the idiots had only sense enough to understand, they would know that the Arab is their hereditary enemy, and we their hereditary friends.

The regular Army consists of less than thirty thousand men, but every Arab is an expert irregular horseman, and the Berbers make good foot-soldiers.

In every street Arab is a possible Sir Gibbie; and MacDonald has seen the possible and shown us what Christianity may make out of a street Arab.

I suppose an Arab feels the same sensation when a Westerner lords it over him on highly moral grounds.

Hardly an Arab in the country was not the Colony's debtor for disinterested help, direct or indirect, at some time in some way.

Who is this Arab, here?" "No Arab, sir!

This Arab was the chief Ibn Hamis, of whom Harris had spoken.

The Arabs, in the days of romance, were a collection of tribes and families whose tents and villages were spread along the Red Sea, between Egypt and the Indian Ocean.

The Arabs were naturally cock-a-hoop.

" A Turkish pamphleteer wrote that "the Arabs have been a misfortune to Turkey," and that "a Turkish conqueror's war-horse is better than the Prophet of any other nation."

The Arabs have never been creative artists, nor are the Berbers known to have been so.

"Your Arabs are loyal hot-heads; some of your Syrians are dogs whom anyone can hire.

" The Arabs were the first Asiatics who spared women in war; the Hebrews had not risen to that chivalrous stage of civilization.

The Arabs are fine, fierce-looking men.

The Arabs of the open country, and who deposit their grain in and trade with these villages, are Oulad Sidi Sheikh, Oulad Sidi Abeed, and Hammania.

The Arabs are the least prepossessing of all the inhabitants of Aden, and it will be long before any confidence can be placed in them.

The Arabs, now, are differentfanatics, too, but with a new sort of fanaticismnew to them, I meanthe kind that made the French revolutionists destroy everything their ancestors had set value on.

The Arabs are believers in Fate, and the Arabs are in the right.'

In this department, Islam repaid part of its debt to Christianity, for the Arabs became the intellectual leaders of the middle ages.

The Arabs are a miserable race, half naked.

So with gunpowder, of which the Arabs were transmitters, not inventors.

The Arabs who invaded Northern Africa about 650, were all natives of Asia, belonging to various provinces of Arabia, and were divided into Ismaelites, Amalekites, Koushites, &c.

It is well known that the Arabs, especially after their conversion to Mahometanism, were great colonizers or conquerors; even the now half-christian kingdom of Abyssinia was an early colony and conquest of the pagan Arabs, and its inhabitants are consequently white Moors in the most extended Portuguese sense.

26 Metaphors for  arabs