Their most cherished plan was to translate the Koran and the Friday Sermon, to have the Khutba (Prayer for the Caliph) recited in Turkish, and to remove the Arabic texts from the walls of the mosques; the eyes and ears of Turkish Moslems were to be saved from the contamination of an anti-national language; but the campaign against Arabic passed over into an attack upon Islam.

They see the antagonism to all foreign ideas, formerly considered as a virtue by every true Moslim, daily losing ground, and they are filled with consternation by observing in their own ranks the contamination of modernist ideas.

"What right have you to come between me and a woman, an ignorant, immoral creature, whose very presence is contamination?" "Ignorant, illiterateyes; but a braver, truer, more loving spirit never breathed.

We must try to distinguish curable from incurable cases, and we must try to cure the former while we preserve society from the contamination of the latter.

The epistles of Jacob Behmen himself are not farther removed from any contamination with the delights of sense.

Graham turned away, his hand still outstretched, as if it had touched some poisonous thing and might retain a contamination.

Even as Atalanta might have dropped an apple behind her to tempt her pursuer to check his speed, so Miss Hoogencamp left that fish-ball behind her, and between her maiden self and contamination.

but it surely would be a cause of wonder, if, with such leprous members, the sound and respectable body of its professors should escape the suspicion of partaking their contamination.

"I will not dwell upon the persecution I endured from the king, whose passion increased in proportion to my resistanceI will not dwell upon the arts, the infamous arts, used to induce me to comply with his wishesneither will I dwell upon the desperate measure I had determined to resort to, if driven to the last straitnor would I mention the subject at all, except to assure you I escaped contamination where few escaped it.

There is no contamination in the cue or the ten-pin; but there is in the habits and associations of the places where they are found.

Respectabilities shunned him as a contamination.

If plants had souls, they would be pure ones, since they can bear such contamination and not be harmed,nay, since even from such foul food as we give them they can evolve results so beautiful.

Do you not dread the contamination of principle?

If the reader's horror of amalgamation does not allow him to join us at the table, perhaps he will consent to retire to the parlor, whence, without fear of contamination, he may safely view us through the folding doors, and note down our several positions around the board.

My soul sickened at the contamination to which I was exposed by the society of such ruffians, for they were all of the very worst description of London characters, and I did all I could to maintain the distinction between myself and them, which my innocence of all crime gave me a right to observe.

And in whom do you there see typified that virtue which you should shield in your hearts from the contamination of the theatre?

A sense of danger and contamination impelled her to fly, but a gleam of reason in the midst of her distraction enabled her to stand her ground.

Though he were a millionaire I would think his touch contamination.

"Hubshi," would the Brahmin reply and loudly bewail his evil Luck which had put him in the power of the accursed Feringhi Governmenta Government that compelled a Brahmin to breathe the same air as a filthy negro dog, a Woolly One of Africa, barely human and most untouchable, a living Contamination ... and Moussa cast about for a weapon.

The white-man, when he wishes to trade profitably with the Indian, fills the cup, and holds it forthhe says, 'drink, my brother, it is good'the red-man drinks, and the wily white points at his condition, says he is uncivilized, and should go forth from the land, for his presence is contamination!

With candles, if the illumination of the room is maintained at the same degree as in the case of lamps, the contamination of the air is very much worse.

And into the Master Mason's lodgethis holy of holies of the masonic temple, where the solemn truths of death and immortality are inculcatedthe aspirant, on entering, should purify his heart from every contamination, and remember, with a due sense of their symbolic application, those words that once broke upon the astonished ears of the old patriarch, "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

And with this strange light about us, the farewell recurs to me and I wonder that human beings could shut themselves from so beauteous a thing as Nature in their fear of contamination by sin!"

During this time she may not approach or touch a horse, for the Indians believe that such contamination would impoverish or weaken the animal.

She lives in peace 320 Upon the spot where she was born and reared; Without contamination doth she live In quietness, without anxiety: Beside the mountain chapel, sleeps in earth Her new-born infant, fearless as a lamb 325 That, thither driven from some unsheltered place, Rests underneath the little rock-like pile When storms are raging.