Use arab in a sentence
Sentences ending with arab
- I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab. [6]
- Oh, come now, you may be a Gipsy, but that doesn't mean that you're an Egyptian or an Arab. [11]
- Davis and I were riding side by side, right after the Arab. [5]
- Always, when he was not on the point of crying over a holy place, he was on the point of killing an Arab. [5]
- I gave it up then, and my heart sank within me, because of course they would come up to scold the Arab. [5]
- Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
- But a neighbor stirred up the Colonel, now that the House had its eye upon him, and the great speculator furled his tent like the Arab. [5]
- You are behaving like a street arab. [5]
- As I approached her, she glanced down at the Arab. [11]
- An instant after he drew back, and turned to the Arab. [11]
Short sentences using arab
- The young Arab drew back. [11]
Sentences containing arab two or more times
- What had roused their suspicion he did not know: probably a hesitation concerning some Arab custom or the pronunciation of some Arab word--the timbre of the Arab voice was rougher and heavier. [11]
- Somauli policemen patrolled the streets; Somauli, Arab, and Turkish guides impeded the way; Arabs in plain white, Arab sheikhs in blue and white, and gold, lounged languidly about, or drank their coffee in the shade of the bazaars. [11]
- We suffered torture no pen can describe from the hungry appeals for bucksheesh that gleamed from Arab eyes and poured incessantly from Arab lips. [5]
- But last of all his eye rested upon his bobtailed Arab, the shameless thing in an Arab country, where every horse rears his tail as a peacock spreads his feathers, as a marching Albanian lifts his foot. [11]
More example sentences with the word arab in them
- Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. [5]
- Occasionally an Arab would throw back his head and cry: "Allahu Akbar! [11]
- After the occurrence with the Arab, the other event was certainly much less prominent, and here, after many years, I can see that the act was less in her than it would have been in others. [11]
- The Arab threatened with a knife. [11]
- With my laborer, who is an Arab, it is different. [10]
- The shipwreck of which the Arab spoke has overtaken him. [10]
- At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
- In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
- I may as well mention here that on our whole trip we saw no Bedouins, and had no more use for an Arab guard than we could have had for patent leather boots and white kid gloves. [5]
- His chief object was to inspire the Arab with confidence, since he was probably the only man outside Selamlik's palace who knew the thing as yet. [11]
- Shot after shot was fired at him, lances were thrown, and once an Arab barred his way suddenly. [11]
- And you, Gibbus--this very day there has been an Arab again to see Joanna; and if they were to suspect that you had been with your master--for you look strangely.--No, man; your devotion merits a better reward. [10]
- El Azhar----The Arab University at Cairo. [11]
- The Arab pointed to the map, and the Copt approached cautiously. [11]
- He was about to take leave but the Mukaukas was so buried in pillows, and kept his eyes so closely shut, that no one could detect whether he were sleeping or waking; so the Arab, not wishing to disturb him, withdrew without speaking. [10]
- Generally he inclined to leniency; but breaking into a house was punishable with death, and in this instance it was but right to show no mercy, out of deference to the Arab merchant. [10]
- Now they waited there like fabled monsters of Arab story ready for the magician's touch, tractable, reckless, will-less--organized lifelessness full of a strange semblance of life. [8]
- The rocks by the wayside still threw long shadows on the sandy desert-road, when a party of Arab horsemen came from Fostat to meet the travellers, shouting the latest news to the prisoner's escort. [10]
- The business of the other Arab, a noble-looking and wiry Bedouin from the South, had been with Ebn Ezra Bey, and each hid his business from his friend. [11]
- Then we lost the gleam of the knife, and the Arab shivered, and toppled over. [11]
- As one of the gentlemen was remarking on the muttered anger of the disappointed Arab, Mrs. Falchion. [11]
- Before him stood the Arab physician, Sharif Bey, who had been in his father's house and his own for a lifetime. [11]
- The toe of the Arab leading the horse touched his head, then a hoof was on him--between the shoulders, pressing-pressing down, the iron crushing into the flesh--down--down--down, till his eyes seemed to fill with blood. [11]
- The Copt and the Arab had spread the report that Fielding brought death to the villages by moving the little flags on his map. [11]
- Moreover, I asked the Arab cub in good English if it was not so, and he answered in good Arabic that it was. [5]
- Macnamara, late of the 7th Hussars, swung his Arab sword as though it were the regulation blade and he in sword practice at Aldershot, and catching the blade of his desert foe, saved his own neck and gave the chance of a fair hand-to-hand combat. [11]
- Michel?--when Seti saw that he was no Arab and was afraid to die, then he told the truth to Selamlik Pasha. [11]
- It was a tall Arab, as swarthy as an Indian; young-say thirty years of age. [5]
- As Hiram had supposed, the better class of the household were still sitting with their friends, and they had been joined by the guide and by the Arab merchant's head man: Rustem the Masdakite, as well as his secretary and interpreter. [10]
- I've got a suit of fine chain-armour which I bought of an Arab down by Darfur. [11]
- The Arab looked straight before him with a steady, commanding gaze; the youth, too, looked up and forwards, but turned from time to time to survey the crowd of mourners. [10]
- The father and son had already heard of this marvellous piece of work, which had formed part of the plunder taken by the Arab conquerors of the Persian Empire at the sack of the "White Tower"--the royal palace of Madam, the capital of the Sassanidze. [10]
- Then, amid a shower of missiles, he shot the Arab who had first spread the report about the map and the flags. [11]
- Confident in her sense of innocence, she had looked forward calmly to her fate building her hopes on the much lauded justice of the Arab judges. [10]
- With an Arab salute, he said: "I am, as you know, my brother, a friend of our master the Khedive, and I carry his ring on my finger. [11]
- Not Seti's strong right arm alone and his naboot were at work, but the bobtailed Arab, like an iron-handed razor toothed shrew, struck and bit his way, his eyes bloodred like Seti's. [11]
- As he presently returned alone the Arab saw him pick up a handkerchief that the young lady had left on the table, and hastily press it to his lips as he went towards the barge. [10]
- Tales I have read, but a few, and John Milton, and Chaucer, and Bacon, and Montaigne, and Arab poets also, whose books my uncle sent me. [11]
- After nightfall we reached our tents, just outside of the nasty Arab village of Jonesborough. [5]
- One pair of protecting arms more or less could not matter to the nuns, while the captive Narses might very probably perish before he could be rescued without his interest with the Arab general. [10]
- In the appointed place, when Seti saw how the bimbashi wept-- for he had been to Paris and had no Arab blood in him; how he wrung his hands--for had not absinthe weakened his nerves in the cafes of St. [11]
- They imposed another pirate upon us at Nazareth--another invincible Arab guard. [5]
- On the side open to the street he transacted business with his customers, who, when the affair promised to be lengthy, were invited by the Arab to seat themselves with him on his little platform. [10]
- He had only one Arab friend--little Mahommed Nafar the shoemaker. [11]
- The Arab at once recognized his foe of the previous evening; but they soon came to a friendly understanding--Paula confessing her folly in holding a single and kindly-disposed man answerable for the crimes of a whole nation. [10]
- When Orion went on to tell him that he was intending to travel for a short time, and had, in fact, come to take leave of him, the Arab was much annoyed. [10]
- The great majority of these poor creatures were already ruined by such competition, and Amru, seeing the Arab leather-workers, weavers, ropemakers, and the rest, threatened with the same fate, had determined to set himself firmly to restrict all this monastic work. [10]
- About the centre of the room, laying palm to palm again and yet again, touching lips and forehead and breast, speaking with slow, leisurely, voices, were two Arab sheikhs from the far Soudan. [11]
- The best account of the empire of Songhay is to be found in the pages of Barth, the German traveler, who had access to what seemed to him a credible Arab history. [4]
- At the door of the court-yard she looked out and about for the Arab, but in vain. [10]
- In the course of the afternoon Orion paid his visit to the Arab governor. [10]
- He was out of spirits, indeed out of temper, as he entered the Arab general's dwelling. [10]
- On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon. [2]
- Damascus has plenty of clear, pure water in it, though, and this is enough, of itself, to make an Arab think it beautiful and blessed. [5]
- He was probably of Arab origin. [10]
- However, there was no choice, and she succeeded in proving that she had never quitted Memphis nor the house of Rufinus at the time when the Arab warriors met their death between Athribis and Doomiat. [10]
- There, on a narrow wall dividing two great tanks, were three people-- Mrs. Falchion, Amshar, and the rejected Arab guide. [11]
- Presently the Sheikh-el-beled mounted the mastaba by the house, the holy men beside him, and pointing to the Arab youth, spoke loudly: "This sister of scorpions and crocodiles has earned a thousand deaths. [11]
- Of all the motives which could prompt him to aid the nuns, revenge was that which the Arab could best understand. [10]
- With plenty of money the shoemaker might be induced to negotiate with Arab merchants coming from Dongola or Berber into Omdurman to get camels, and arrange an escape down the desert to Wady Halfa; but where was the money to come from? [11]
- One of the messengers was a young Arab from the other side of the river, who handed to Philippus a letter from the merchant Haschim. [10]
- Perhaps the old merchant's stalwart headman had died of his wounds, and his father wished to send him--Orion--across the Nile to the Arab viceroy to obtain forgiveness for the murder of a Moslem, actually within the precincts of the governor's house. [10]
- Now, Mahommed Seti loved a horse as well as a Bagarra Arab, and he had come to love Fielding's waler Bashi-Bazouk as a Farshoot dog loves his master. [11]
- With a back like a door, and arms as long and strong as a gorilla's, with no moral character to speak of, and an imperturbable selfishness, even an ignorant Arab like Seti may go far. [11]
- Over to the left, on the opposite side of the harbour, were wide bungalows shining in the sun, and flanking the side of the ancient aqueduct, the gigantic tomb of an Arab sheikh. [11]
- There was a knock at the door, and Mahommed Hassan entered, supporting an Arab, down whose haggard face blood trickled from a wound in the head, while an arm hung limp at his side. [11]
- This aim he kept constantly in view; his spirit hungered for peaceful days in which he might act on the resolution he had formed in church and fulfil the task set before him by the Arab governor. [10]
- A prisoner has just been brought in for having attacked an Arab horseman in a riot in the market square. [10]
- The Gippies thought it a miraculous feat, and that he had done it in scorn of the Arab foe. [11]
- Orion's son, too, inherited the office of Mukaukas, when he came to man's estate, from his father who was appointed to it, but under a new Arab title, shortly after his marriage. [10]
- Presently he saw in the grasp of an infuriated crowd the Arab youth he had met in the desert, near the Pyramid of Maydoum. [11]
- This they explained in fear and trembling, and they then learnt that the Arab government had that very evening taken possession of the residence. [10]
- When Morocco is in a state of war, Arab couriers carry letters through the country and charge a liberal postage. [5]
- Even now some hundreds of laborers might be seen, in spite of the scorching heat, toiling under Arab overseers to demolish a vast ruin of the date of the Ptolemies. [10]
- Within a few hours of the young Egyptian's departure, they received a letter from the youth they had given up for lost, written in trembling characters, in which he implored them to effect his deliverance through Amru, the Arab governor of Egypt. [10]
- Back yonder, an hour's journey from here, we passed through an Arab village of stone dry-goods boxes (they look like that,) where Noah's tomb lies under lock and key. [5]
- He sat in his saddle like a plainsman; he listened like a hillsman; he endured like an Arab water-carrier. [11]
- The Arab and his men took their meal in what had been the great hall of the temple--none of them drinking wine excepting the captain of the caravan, who was no Moslem but belonged to the Parsee sect of the Masdakites. [10]
- This man before him had the duplicity or evasion of the Oriental; delicately in proportion to his great ability, yet it was there--though in less degree than in any Arab he had ever known. [11]
- From dying fires here and there Arab sentries sprang to their feet with rifles and lances. [11]
- Then it struck her that Hiram was now on the further side of the Nile, within the jurisdiction of the Arab ruler, and that the merchant could perhaps intercede for him, if she were to tell him all she knew. [10]
- At Ibrahim's words he turned his head from the rank steam, and fingered his pistol in the loose folds of his Arab trousers. [11]
- As David entered, he passed Sharif Bey, and something in the look on the Arab physician's face--a secret malignancy and triumph--struck him strangely. [11]
- For the rest, he flourished the salutations and language of the Arab as though they were his own, and he spoke Arabic as perfectly as he did French and English. [11]
- Nearing the spot, he brought his step to a deliberate slowness, and appeared not to notice the stately Arab till almost upon him. [11]
- Mrs. Falchion would have gone with him, but Amshar caught her about the waist, and saved her from the fall which would have killed her as certainly as it killed the Arab lying at the bottom of the tank. [11]
- Those Arab devils have come again, with an interpreter and a writer. [10]
- The Mukaukas George had set out--a quite unheard of event--for an excursion on the river in his barge, with his son and the ladies of the house just as he was hoping to secure an audience for the Arab. [10]
- Immediately the Arab had gone, Dicky's face flushed with excitement, in the reaction from his lately assumed composure. [11]
- The Arab meanwhile had concluded his examination; still he was not perfectly satisfied. [10]
- By midnight Benjamin had already been informed of Orion's visit to Fostat, and to the Arab general. [10]
- The Arab drank greedily, and, when he had finished, gave a long sigh of satisfaction. [11]
- The shoemaker was friendly to him for a great kindness done in the days when they both lived in Khartoum and ere the Arab deserted to the camp of the Mahdi. [11]
- Orion breathed more freely, and the question arose among the judges as to whether the young Arab might have failed in precision, or an exchange had in fact been effected. [10]
- Music follows their footsteps: Hamlet and Esther; Caractacus and Iphigenia; Napoleon and Hermione; The Man in the Iron Mask and Sappho; Garibaldi and Boadicea; an Arab sheikh and Joan of Arc; Mahomet and Casablanca; Cleopatra and Hannibal--a resurrected world. [11]
- In the first flush of irritation, I said let the Arab and his exploits go to the mischief. [5]
- Had he not flogged an Arab to death with his own hand, the day before Fielding's and Dicky's arrival, and had he not tried to get this same Arab's daughter into his harem--this Selamlik Pasha! [11]
- But by flickering fires under the palm- trees were groups of men talking and gesticulating; and now and then an Arab galloped through the street, the point of his long lance shining. [11]
- We got so far ahead of the tents that we had to camp in an Arab village, and sleep on the ground. [5]
- Seeing that Mrs. Falchion made no effort to dislodge Amshar from her skirts, the Arab presently leaped forward. [11]
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