"Abb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'l-Abbs al-Mubarrad,[FN198] "I set out one day with a company to Al-Brid on an occasion and, coming to the monastery of Hirakl,[FN199] we alighted in its shade. Presently a man came out to us and said, 'There are madmen in the monastery,[FN200] and amongst them one ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... of the wreckers, have been the ships cast away along that rugged coast-line which starts southward from the grim promontory of St. Abb's Head, and runs, cruelly rock-girt or stretched in open bay of yellow sand, away past Berwick and down by Holy Island. Many have been the disasters, pitiful on occasion the loss of life. But never, since history began, ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang
... he saw in the comet "carbon, or an oxide of carbon, as the source of the bright luminous bands," and the Abb Moigno asks whether this comet may not be, after all, "un ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... by Michael Scot, afterwards passed through many hands, and was greatly dilated. In its last form by the abb Blanchet, it constituted the well known and agreeable tale of the dean of Badajoz. This reverend divine comes to a sorcerer, and intreats a specimen of his art. The magician replies that he had met with so many specimens of ...
— Lives of the Necromancers • William Godwin
... left of golden hair, one must feel sorry that she was not born and married nearer to holy ground. My husband prays you to remember him, and I ask your daughters to remember both of us. Our boy rides his pony and studies under his abb, and keeps a pair of ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe
... the spectral horseman who rides up the hill on bright hot days to seek a friend buried more than a hundred years ago;—the legend of the Habitation Dillon, whose proprietor was one night mysteriously summoned from a banquet to disappear forever;—the legend of l'Abb Piot, who cursed the sea with the curse of perpetual unrest;—the legend of Aime Derivry of Robert, captured by Barbary pirates, and sold to become a Sultana-Valid-(she never existed, though you can find an alleged ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn |
