"Koran" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... triki, trikoti. Knitting-needle trikilo. Knob butono. Knock frapi. Knock down disjxeti, dejxeti. Knot ligtubero. Knot (bow) banto. Knot (in wood) lignotubero. Knout skurgxo. Know scii. Know (to be acquainted with) koni. Knuckle artiko. Kopeck kopeko. Koran ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... tribes nor the Negritos read or write. The Moros, too, are very ignorant, only the priests and students being able to read passages from the Koran and make the Arabic characters. The latest Malay immigrants, who had been influenced by Indian culture, introduced a style of writing that is very queer. Three vowels were used,—a, e, and u. The consonants were represented ...
— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert
... that many times the angel Gabriel appeared to him and revealed to him the religion which he afterwards taught his followers. As he himself could not write, he committed to memory all that the angel told him, and had it written in a book. This book is called the "Koran," which means, like our own word Bible, the "Book." The Koran is ...
— Famous Men of the Middle Ages • John H. Haaren
... are all lifeless, they cannot speak: I know, for I have cried aloud to them. The Purna and the Koran are mere words: lifting up the curtain, I have seen. */ ...
— Songs of Kabir • Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)
... new dispersion, than The stammering young ones of the flood's dull ooze, 110 Who failed and fled each other. Why? why, marry, Because no man could understand his neighbour. They are wiser now, and will not separate For nonsense. Nay, it is their brotherhood, Their Shibboleth—their Koran—Talmud—their Cabala—their best brick-work, wherewithal ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
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