The low building is shaded by tall sky-reaching old pines, whose odor pleasantly permeated the air as we wandered about the grounds among the choice flowers and the carefully tended undergrowth, half expecting to come upon the Talking Bird and Singing Tree of the arabian fable.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Saying this, he struck her with a courbash, a terrible arabian whip, which cuts even the hide of a camel.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
As in the arabian language this means a lion, the Bedouins became frightened yet more, but Chamis burst out laughing and said: "I know that lion."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz