lote-tree

Shaitan cast down from the sky, making a grab for a branch of the highest Thing, the lote-tree of the uttermost end that stands beneath the Throne, Shaitan missing, plummeting, splat.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Just as he, the businessman, felt when he first saw the archangel: thought he was cracked, wanted to throw himself down from a rock, from a high rock, from a rock on which there grew a stunted lote-tree, a rock as high as the roof of the world.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

P: But they were froward, so We sent on them the flood of 'Iram, and in exchange for their two gardens gave them two gardens bearing bitter fruit, the tamarisk and here and there a lote-tree.

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

It is hoped that ye will be nurtured in the shade of the lote-tree of Divine Grace, and practice that which God desireth.

A Traveler’s Narrative 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

"Hanút:" this custom has become almost obsolete: the corpse is now sprinkled with a mixture of water, camphor diluted and the dried and pounded leaves of various trees, especially the "Nabk" (lote-tree or Zizyphus lotus).

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

O Yâkob, if you believe not in Mahomet, you cannot be near this lote-tree.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Haussa; that is, the _nebek_ or fruit of the sider or lote-tree.

Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828

Now, oh Yâkob! this is not the lote-tree in the seventh heaven, near the presence of Rubbee (God), and which Gabriel, nor our lord Mahomet, dare not pass beyond.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

[178] Mahomet is described, in the 53d chapter of the Koran, as having seen the Angel Gabriel "by the lote-tree, beyond which there is no passing: near it is the Garden of Eternal Abode."

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

"To the lote-tree springing by ALLA'S throne [178]" Whose flowers have a soul in every leaf.

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815