afrit
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She was ultimately carried by an afrit to the abyss of Eblis, in punishment of her many crimes.—W.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
The expedition of the afrit in fetching Carathis is characteristic of this order of dives.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
Immediately a cloud descended, which, gradually dissipating, discovered Carathis on the back of an afrit,* who grievously complained of his burden.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
And would you fight against the weapons of the djinn and afrit, O Guémama?
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack
It will appear below that it has been a terrible afrit, a demon which promised service but which became a master.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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