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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales

FROM DRAWINGS IN COLORS BY MAXFIELD PARRISH

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, Smith, Nora Archibald, and Parrish, Maxfield
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It will be sufficient to break off a branch and carry it to plant in your garden
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The Fisherman and the Genie
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The smoke ascended to the clouds, and extending itself along the sea and upon the shore formed a great mist
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The Young King of the Black Isles
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When he came to this part of his narrative the young king could not restrain his tears
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And she proceeded to burn perfume and repeat spells until the sea foamed and was agitated
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At the same time the earth, trembling, opened just before the magician, and uncovered a stone, laid horizontally, with a brass ring fixed into the middle
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And when the boat came to me I found in it a man of brass, with a tablet of lead upon his breast, engraven with names and talismans
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At the approach of evening I opened the first closet and, entering it, found a mansion like paradise
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And when they had ascended that mountain they saw a city than which eyes had not beheld any greater
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The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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Cassim ... was so alarmed at the danger he was in that the more he endeavoured to remember the word Sesame the more his memory was confounded
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The History of Codadad and His Brothers
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As it drew near we saw ten or twelve armed pirates appear on the deck
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The spot where she left me was encompassed on all sides by mountains that seemed to reach above the clouds, and so steep that there was no possibility of getting out of the valley
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Having finished his repast, he returned to his porch, where he lay and fell asleep, snoring louder than thunder

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The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales, Project Gutenberg eBook #20916

CONTENTS THE ARABIAN NIGHTS