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

Note 206
The Second Kalandar’s Tale.

The exigencies of the "Saj'a," or rhymed prose, disjoint this and many similar passages.

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…; her colour lively bright; her face gleamed like dawn through curly tresses which gloomed like night, and above the snows of her bosom glittered teeth of a pearly white.[FN#206] As the poet said of one like her:—

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