Zuleika
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mohammad Ali gave her calls a ringtone that was a verse from a popular Afghan song that recalls the story of Yusuf and Zuleika.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2014
He is thrown into prison, and Zuleika waits 36 years for him to be freed.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2014
This seems a bit like the kind of “realism” that leads flirts like Henry James’ Daisy Miller or Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson to meet bad ends for their reckless and loose ways.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2012
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm A mad fantasy, subtitled "An Oxford love story", this is a satire on the sheltered world of Oxford colleges a century ago.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010
Ne'er more to see her was his lot; The Genii guards that haunted spot, And close where his Zuleika lay, The chieftain lingers to this day.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander
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