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This book introduces us to Abdullah, a modest carpet-seller in the Arabian-like city of Zanzib.
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This book introduces us to Abdullah, a modest carpet-seller in the Arabian-like city of Zanzib.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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At left, a carpet-seller at the Tolkuchka bazaar in the capital, Ashgabat.
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Alternating light and dark, Flecker tells the story of the rise of Hassan, a Bagdad carpet-seller, to the right-hand of the Caliph, and then his self-betrayal.
I am the Eye in the (Martian) Sky lproven 2005
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There was a carpet-seller who, when he had done, would treat me like a guest, seat me by him on the divan, give me wine and talk to me.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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When the carpet-seller sent for me again, I was thankful it was no one worse.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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Sardis, — and possibly Democrates knew on what vessel the carpet-seller had taken flight.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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His head was very befogged, but he could not expel one idea from it — that Themistocles had revealed that day a priceless secret, that the statesman and Glaucon and he himself were the only men who shared it, and that it was believed that Glaucon had visited the Babylonish carpet-seller.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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A Babylonish carpet-seller has rooms opposite Phormio.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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The Babylonish carpet-seller and Hiram had vanished, despite all search, but everybody praised Democrates for saving the state from a fearful peril.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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