 | Joseph Dacre Carlyle - Arabic poetry - 1796 - 280 pages
...more; being surprized by your sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered him to be killed and served up to you last night for supper*." Hatem immediately ordered the finest horses to be brought, and begged the * The Arabians prefer the flesh of horses to any other... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1821 - 554 pages
...1 being surprised by yonr sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered him to be killed and served up to you last night for supper."...to present them to his master. The prince, as the Jnstory says, could not but admire this mark of Hatem's generosity ; and owned, that he truly merited... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English literature - 1822 - 288 pages
...being surprised by your sudden arrival,, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered him to be killed and served up to you last night for supper."...the history says, could not but admire this mark of Hatem's ' generosity ; and owned, that he truly merited the title of the most liberal among men.' "... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children's stories, English - 1836 - 382 pages
...; being surprised by your sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered him to be killed and served up to you last night for supper."...the history says, could not but admire this mark of Hatem's generosity ; and owned, that he truly merited the title of the most liberal among men.'" Notwithstanding... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children's stories, English - 1836 - 394 pages
...; being surprised by your sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered him to be killed and served up to you last night for supper."...brought, and begged the ambassador to present them to 22 his master. The prince, as the history says, could not but admire this mark of Hatem's generosity... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Arabic poetry - 1881 - 566 pages
...Arabians prefer the flesh of horses to any other food. ) Hatim immediate!; ordered the finest horses to be brought, and begged the ambassador to present them to his master. The Emperor could not but admire this mark of Hatim's generosity, and confessed that he truly deserved... | |
 | William Alexander Clouston - Arabic poetry - 1881 - 564 pages
...by your sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered that particular horse to be killed, and served up to you last night for supper." (The Arabians prefer the flesh of horses to any other food. ) Hatim immediately ordered the finest... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 466 pages
...surprised by your sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered that very horse to be killed and served up to you last night for supper." [The Arabs prefer horse-flesh to other food.] Hatim immediately ordered the finest horses to be brought,... | |
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you had yesterday apprized me of your errand, I should instantly have complied with the emperor's request ; but the horse he asks is now no more ; being surprised by your sudden arrival, and having nothing else to regale you with, I ordered him to be... 