The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 413
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

The Hindus (as the Katha shows) compare this swimming gait with an elephant's roll.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

…rst bridal dress which was of scarlet satin; and Hasan had a view of her which dazzled his sight and dazed his wits, as she moved to and fro, swaying with graceful gait; [FN#413] and she turned the heads of all the guests, women as well as men, for she was even as saith the surpassing poet:—

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