"Oates" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... In Reverend Shape. The allusion throughout this prologue is to Titus Oates. After his abominable perjuries this wretch was lodged at Whitehall, assigned L1200 a year and a special ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn
... story, he speaks of 'a large flock of birds like swallows'. The Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani dictionaries give no other word than 'ababil' for swallow. The word 'partadil' (purtadeel) occurs in none of them. According to Oates, Fauna of British India (London, 1890), the 'ababil' is the common swallow, Hirundo rustica; and the 'mosque-swallow' ('masjid-ababil'), otherwise called 'Sykes's striated swallow', is the H. erythropygia, ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman |
