afrit
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
It was not that the old afrit, the uncle of the Em�r, had beaten him, nor that his back was sore, but that the Em�r himself had refused his services, which so appalled him.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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
Vathek, too much cast down to express the indignation excited by such a discourse, ordered the afrit to remove Carathis from his presence, and continued immersed in thoughts which his companions durst not disturb.
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
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