Word: arabization
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Serious riots broke out yesterday at Alexandria between the hostile natives and Europeans, during which about twenty persons were killed. Among the wounded are the English consul, the Greek consul and the Italian consul. The immediate cause was the stabbing of an Arab by a Maltese...
...sale of pictures at Williams & Everett's yesterday Schreyer's "Arab Scouts" brought $2675; Camphausen's "Bismarck and Napoleon...
Roman, Greek, Arab, breathing with one soul...
...Goth and the Arab, different in character and mission, alike in magnificence and energy, they came from the north and the south, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." - Ruskin's Stones of Venice...
...cosmopolitan and consequently migratory nature, that the beginning of a vacation causes scarcely a perceptible stir. The recitation-rooms become suddenly deserted, a few loads of trunks leave town, and a body of men, equal to a good-sized Western village, have departed with the stealth of an Arab encampment. An ubiquitous individual of the spirit-world could hardly be more interestingly employed than in following the men to their different homes and amusements, and observing what becomes of them, - we had almost said what they become; for a college man, marked and catalogued according to college standards, becomes often...