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Stories from the Arabian nights (1911)

Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959, Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953, ill · London : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 98

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such speed was the work put in hand,and so large was the number of men employedupon it, that within three days the entire buildingwas completed. On the day following the obsequies began.All was done with the greatest solemnity andsplendour. First came the King attended byhis vizier and all the… … WICKED HALF-BROTHERS horses and bewailing the loss of him who hadled them to victory ; behind these came old menupon black mules, with long robes and flowingbeards ; and after these maidens on white horses,with heads unveiled, bearing in their handsbaskets of precious stones. Now when thesehad…

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