618 examples of arabia in sentences

The best preparation is brought from Arabia, and, next to that, from Italy.

When our friends were on board the "Arabia" the other day, and she and the "Europa" pitched into each other,as if, on that happy week, all the continents were to kiss and join hands all round,how great the relief to the passengers on each, if, through every night of their passage, collision had been prevented by this simple expedient!

One boat would have screamed, "Europa, Europa, Europa," from night to morning,and the other, "Arabia, Arabia, Arabia,"and neither would have been mistaken, as one unfortunately was, for a light-house.

One boat would have screamed, "Europa, Europa, Europa," from night to morning,and the other, "Arabia, Arabia, Arabia,"and neither would have been mistaken, as one unfortunately was, for a light-house.

Melchior, the King of Arabia and Nubia, offers frankincense; and Balthasar, King of Saba,"the land of spices and all manner of precious gums,"offers myrrh.

This wise and glorious Bird, that has been sent to us by the King, is called Phoenix; he dwells far off in Arabia, on a treethere is no other that resembles it on Earth, as in like manner there is no second Phoenix.

"My first bit of Arabia," said she.

If that's gold, the whole of Arabia would be here after it!

Here was peaceeternal kayfblessed resthere indeed lay a scene that gave full explanation of the ancient name "Arabia Felix.

These two, if no others, understood the soul of Arabia.

ARABIA FELIX, the W. coast of Arabia, contains YEMEN and EL HEJAZ (q. v.), and is subject to Turkey.

ARABIA FELIX, the W. coast of Arabia, contains YEMEN and EL HEJAZ (q. v.), and is subject to Turkey.

SABÆANS, a trading people who before the days of Solomon and for long after inhabited South Arabia, on the shores of the Bed Sea, and who worshipped the sun and moon with other kindred deities; also a religious sect on the Lower Euphrates, with Jewish, Moslem, and Christian rites as well as pagan, called Christians of St. John; the term Sabæanism designates the worship of the former.

Having laden thousands of camels with canvas sacks filled with goods, and the jewels and specie on mules, five hundred slaves from the steppes of Kapchak, from Zang, and from Rum, completely armed, men used to the sword, mounted on horses of Arabia, of Tartary, and of Irak, accompanied [the caravan].

It consists in kneeling down and sitting back on one's heels, a posture the very reverse of easy, at least, so it appears to us good Christians, accustomed to the use of chairs &c. Arabia Felix, the south-west province of the peninsula.

Ni'man, also Nu'man, the name of an ancient king of Hirat, in Arabia.

" The coffee and pipe are always presented to visitors in Turkey, Arabia, and Persia, and they are considered as indispensable in good manners.

The kazis and muftis are the judges in Turkey, Arabia, Persia and Hindustan, of all civil and religious causes; they likewise marry, divorce, &c.

A kind of litter for travelling in Persia and Arabia; two of them are slung across a camel or a mule; those for camels carry four persons.

[404] A famous garden in Arabia Felix; it is also applied to the garden in Paradise, in which all good Mahometans, according to their belief, are to revel after death.

[405] 'Umman is the name of the southern part of Yaman or Arabia Felix; the country which lies between the mouth of the Persian Gulf and the mouth of the Red Sea; the sea which washes this coast is called the sea of 'Umman in Persia and Arabia, as the Red Sea is called the sea of Kulzum.

[405] 'Umman is the name of the southern part of Yaman or Arabia Felix; the country which lies between the mouth of the Persian Gulf and the mouth of the Red Sea; the sea which washes this coast is called the sea of 'Umman in Persia and Arabia, as the Red Sea is called the sea of Kulzum.

[406] A mode of punishment used in former times in Persia, India, and Arabia, against great enemies or atrocious delinquents.

The scent of new-mown hay laden with falling dew comes floating up from the valley with an intoxicating sweetness, a sweetness to which the far-famed perfume of Arabia is not to be compared.

In Arabia and Palestine to-day, as in the past, a man's prosperity or misfortune is universally regarded as the evidence of divine approval or disapproval.

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