hadji
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At daybreak the hadji goes outside to take a preliminary peep at the weather, and returns with the unwelcome intelligence that it is snowing.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
The hadji would calm his listeners and tell them to get ready, but be still and await the sign.
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
In his wrath and determination to make a lasting impression of each blow given, the hadji emphasizes each visitation with a very audible grunt; and, to speak correctly, so does the horse.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
To return to my relation: the Chinese hadji recovered, and I determined to punish the aggressors, for which purpose I seized an Illanun said to be concerned, but who was innocent.
From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry
Doctor Oudney was of great service to the hadji, who had injured his hand by the bursting of a gun.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
While the prospective hadjis were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bridegroom has to make settlements on the bride, and the bride's father has to keep open house for weeks, besides fees to the hadjis, and gunpowder ad libitum.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette
They fought, they hustled one another around the hadjis, to be the first to give the kiss.
From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Couperus, Louis
"It is only to hadjis," observed Yussuf, "that I give this great proof of my skill."
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick
As the mass of the Javanese regard the native princes as traitors and apostates, the Arab priests and hadjis have come to be recognized as the popular leaders.
From A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
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