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Example sentences for "adan"

Lexicographically close words:
adage; adages; adal; adamant; adamantine; adapt; adaptability; adaptable; adaptation; adaptational
  1. His other play, Le jeu Adan or Le jeu de la Feuillee (c.

  2. The ikameh differs from the adan in adding "The time for prayer is come" twice after "come to security.

  3. I have letters from Monterey," he said, as Reinaldo and Adan ran down the steps to help him alight.

  4. Adan walked at Chonita's side, more faithful than her shadow.

  5. Adan sighed and did as he was bidden, consoling himself with a cigarito.

  6. I liked Adan Menendez; there was something manly and sure about him,--the latter a restful if not a fascinating quality.

  7. Chonita, with a faint flush on her cheek, gave Adan her hand to kiss.

  8. So Sa'adan sent ten slaves, who returned with great plenty of wine, and they ate and drank and were mirthful and merry.

  9. Gharib, and Sa'adan answered, "Yes, I have a cistern full of old wine.

  10. Thereupon Sa'adan cried to his slaves, saying, "Take this fatted calf and roast him quickly.

  11. So Gharib and his company and Princess Fakhr Taj and her maidens all rose and went forth, whilst Sa'adan commanded his slaves and slave- girls to slaughter and cook and make ready the morning-meal and bring it to them among the trees.

  12. His father's name was Hindi who peopled Hind and named it, and he left this son after him, whom he called Sa'adan the Ghul.

  13. But Adan Centurion's heart failed him; to cut out the old Sea-wolf from under one of his own batteries was more than he had the stomach for, and he accordingly sailed away.

  14. This he did, and hardly had he done so when there appeared upon the scene fifteen galleys commanded by Adan Centurion and John Doria.

  15. Roldan, and even Adan sprang to his feet and marched westward with some enthusiasm.

  16. After a little, however, the passage suddenly widened, and it was Adan who uttered the first exclamation of surprise.

  17. Adan slid to the ground and the mustang sprang lightly forward.

  18. My name is Roldan Castanada of the Rancho Los Palos Verdes, and this is my friend Adan Pardo of the Rancho Buena Vista.

  19. Adan shook his blood through his veins, and obeyed.

  20. Adan was leaning against a pillar, moody and bored.

  21. Roldan sprang to his feet, pulling Adan with him.

  22. Roldan and Adan ate enough beans, rice, cold chicken, tongue, and dulces to make up for their prolonged fast, and finished with a cup of chocolate and a bunch of grapes.

  23. Adan gasped but cinched his saddle; the boys sprang upon the now tractable mustangs and plunged into the forest below.

  24. Adan scrambled to his feet and saddled the mustang.

  25. When Adan saw the procession start in his direction he sat down on a stone to rest, and when it reached him he obeyed orders and sprang on the mustang's back as Roldan slipped off.

  26. Once Adan suggested through his stiff lips and unruly teeth that they turn back and take refuge in some dense grove above; but Roldan shook his head peremptorily.

  27. Roldan and Adan followed close, knowing that a feast alone would satisfy appetite after the temascal.

  28. The Gerad Adan was powerful, being the head of a tribe of cultivators, not split up, like the Bedouins, into independent clans, and he thus exercises a direct influence upon the conterminous races.

  29. They had been sent to settle with Adan the weighty matter of Blood-money.

  30. The Abaskul also lies scattered over the Harar hills, and owns the Gerad Adan as its chief.

  31. The Gerad Adan and his ragged tail leading, we skirted the eastern side of Wilensi, and our heavily laden camels descended with pain the rough and stony slope of the wide Kloof dividing it from the Marar Prairie.

  32. The Gerad Adan had counselled me not to provoke these men; so, contrary to the advice of my two companions, I returned a polite answer, purporting that we would expect them till eight o'clock the next morning.

  33. Passing Gafra we ascertained from the Midgans that the Gerad Adan had sent for my books and stored them in his own cottage.

  34. I was assured that Adan would not drink water before mounting to meet us: but, fear is reciprocal, there was evidently bad blood between them, and already a knowledge of Somali customs caused me to suspect the result of our mission.

  35. In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

  36. Now this was the host of the Mountain- Ghul whom Gharib had despatched to Jamrkan's aid, and Sa'adan himself rode in their van.

  37. Jamrkan and Sa'adan sallied forth and offered him battle, and there were slain of the Moslems much folk, so the True Believers retired into the city and shut the gates and manned the walls.

  38. So an hundred horse set upon Sa'adan with swords and spears, and he met them with a heart firmer than flint, proclaiming the unity of the Requiting King, whom no one thing diverteth from other thing.

  39. And there rushed upon him a Champion of the Infidels, as he were a flame of fire, and drove at him, but Sa'adan charged home at him and dealt him with his club a blow which broke his ribs and cast him lifeless to the earth.

  40. Jamrkan and Sa'adan and all their fighting-men sallied forth into the field of fight whilst the kettle-drums beat to battle and the horses neighed.

  41. So Sa'adan and his sons mounted and set out, amid twenty-thousand horse for Oman.

  42. Then he made at Jaland who threw himself down from the throne and fled; whilst Sa'adan fell on the bystanders and killed twenty of the King's chief officers, and all the rest took to flight.

  43. FN#361] When we heard where he was, we came to Adan in search of him, and when we foregathered with him there, he told us that he was trading in stuffs with the monies and buying goods upon goods.

  44. Meanwhile, the Jew, when the people of Adan released him from prison, set out homewards and fared on nor ceased faring till he came within three days' journey of the city.

  45. But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

  46. Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

  47. I should say Adan is a very shrewd man and knows how to look after his money, even though he no longer possesses a dhow of his own.

  48. Then the French Hakim sent for Adan and asked, "What's this story you have been telling concerning these piratical Arabs?

  49. Many years ago a rich Arab, making the holy pilgrimage from Khartoum to Mecca, was accompanied by Adan in the capacity of servant.

  50. Well, Adan had no grain aboard his dhow, and would have been only too glad to get out of the position he found himself in by paying thirty riales had he had them.

  51. Adan returned to Djibouti, calling in at Zeila on his way to report the occurrence.

  52. By which order and threats, I am sure, Adan made the wooden door near the old Arab's head, when he is lying down, the most irresistible spot in the world to bang.

  53. Adan felt very sore and was under the impression that his story was not believed.

  54. When Adan walked out of his door he was in a compound, one side of which was walled in by his own house and half the Arab's house.

  55. As next-door neighbour he has a blind Arab, who lodged a complaint that Adan made a door through his compound.

  56. Adan Abdallah was born somewhere in the Soudan, and belongs to the class formed from mixed tribes belonging to that country, and known in North and East Africa as Soudanese.


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