Caaba
Britishnoun
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Then, ere the mighty trampling ceased, Mohammed entered the Caaba—that Caaba in which he had been spat upon and covered with mud thrown by derisive hands.
From The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson
"Because," replied the intrepid chief, "the cattle is my own; the Caaba belongs to the gods, and they will defend their house from injury and sacrilege."
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
A sixth Caaba was built by the children of Kahtan, into whose tribe, say the Arabs, Ismail was married.
From The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson
The Caaba has a double roof, supported internally by three octangular pillars of aloes wood, between which, on a bar of iron, hangs a row of silver lamps.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
From the Caaba the call was given to all who could be appealed to through religion, through the interests of commerce, or through desire for blood-revenge in consequence of the battles of Bedr and Ohod.
From The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson
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