Note 457
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
The Bres. Edit. says, "would have knocked him into Al-Yaman," (Southern Arabia), something like our slang phrase "into the middle of next week."
…iversion to the city and the servant followed with a quarter-staff [FN#456] of almond-wood so heavy that if he struck a camel therewith the beast would never rise again. [FN#457] When the people of Damascus saw Ajib's beauty and brilliancy and perfect grace and symmetry (for he was a marvel of comeliness and winning loveliness, softer than the cool breeze of the North, sweeter than limpid waters to a man in drowth, and pleasan…
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