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Troth now, the mussulmans may have been mightily amused by the caper; but for my part I should modestly prefer skipping to the simple jig of an Irish bag-pipe.

From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Recherches sur la constitution de la propri�t� territoriale dans le pays mussulmans et subsidiairement en Algeria; par M. Worms. 8vo.

From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by Bartlett, John Russell

"How comes it, then, that you, being mussulmans are plundering this brigantine, on board of which, as we know, is the cadi of Nicosia?"

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de