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The cultured patriot with the Cambridge accent, luminous eyes and magnetic smile who spent 13 of his 60 years in British jails has become the Orient's unoriental, supercharged public executive.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I believe in Allah and his Prophet, and in nothing else," was his sturdy creed; he rejected alchemy, jinnis and magicians, and truly he had a most unoriental distaste for tales of wonder.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A great many of the poems, however, do not owe their inspiration to the Orient, and many are completely unoriental.

From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.

So fond does Rückert seem to have been of this form, that he employs it even for a poem on such an unoriental subject as Easter, p.

From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.

A melody which made him doubt his ears, The cause being past his guessing or unriddling; A pipe, too, and a drum, and shortly after— A most unoriental roar of laughter.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley