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A belief precisely similar prevailed throughout Christendom, previous to the year 1260 of our own era: the reference being to the two mystic periods in the eleventh chapter of the Apocalypse.
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An anecdote of this personage is given in Mr Lane's works, i. 153.
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It is hareem etiquette to address mothers by the names of their children.
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Marriages of slaves from the khalif's hareem occur more than once in the Thousand and One Nights.
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The higher classes are not free from this reproach if we are to believe the story told by Mrs Damer, that Nezleh Hanum punished a female slave who had offended her by the daily amputation of a joint of one of her fingers!
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A Spanish proverb of former days, defines "Castilian faith and Moorish works" as the ingredients of a good Christian.
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