- a variation of Alkoran.
Alcoran
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I'll leave him his Alcoran, that's revenue enough for him; every page of it is gold and diamonds.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
How grossly are they mistaken to suppose slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran!
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
And in the Alcoran; You did not kill them, but God kill'd them; when thou threwest the Darts, it was not thou that threwest them, but God.
From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn
"I had rather," he says, "believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
On one side of these was represented the head of the reigning caliph, and on the other appeared his name, with some passages from the Alcoran.
From History of the Moors of Spain by Florian, M.
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