Sheitan
Americannoun
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My darling, ambition is the mirage of the literary desert you are anxious to traverse; it is the Bahr Sheitan, the Satan's water, which will ever recede and mock your thirsty, toil-spent soul.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
But were you Sheitan himself, it would be nothing to me.
From With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
“De Grec is one ver clevaire rogue, and would sheet Sheitan himself.”
From Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
Then by the will of Sheitan the accursed; but there will be fighting— am I not an Arab, do I not know?
From The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 4 by Gilbert Parker
He ran down to the river like a man possessed of the Sheitan himself.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Joseph Conrad
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