djin

Historical Examples

• Blank verse is like the Djin in the Arabian Nights; it is either the most terrible of masters, or the most powerful of slaves.

  Books and Characters

  Lytton Strachey

• My djin had fastened up his little cart under a tree, and together we clambered the steep path on the slippery red soil.

  Madame Chrysantheme

  Pierre Loti

• If in the raw morning hours a donkey brays, the men are very much perturbed, for they know that the poor beast has seen a djin.

  Morocco

  S.L. Bensusan

• The djin, however, was not thus to be propitiated, and the gold of the Pharaohs was never found.

  The Treasury of Ancient Egypt

  Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

• My djin had fastened his little cart under a tree, and together we climbed the steep path on the slippery red soil.

  Madame Chrysantheme Complete

  Pierre Loti