Rubʿ al Khali

There is a particular focus in the magazine on attacking the United States, which al Qaeda calls a top target.

And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!

Others again put the varnish on and rub it off in places to resemble the wear of age.

But indeed, it was useless to rub her eyes, the dwarfs did not vanish, and so she was obliged to believe that they were real.

She would put her paws on his shoulders, and rub his face, and purr in a most contented manner.

When the exact sense was lost, the suffix -al seemed to be adjectival, and the word dismal became at last an adjective.