Word: mahomet
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...know it, was talking of annexing imaginary virtues, the monk was talking of disannexing real faults. This is the prelude to the Good Life which, says the good Abbe, is heavenly. A true account and touchstone of that heavenly state he finds in a saying of Mahomet: "Above all things I like perfumes, and above all things I like women, but I like prayer even more...
Sneered El Excelsior of Mexico City: "In one word, as if by witchcraft. . . . Governor Tejeda becomes as crafty a boss as ever was produced by the Asiatic continent . . . absolute sovereign over all property in Veracruz, a stupendous miracle which would have made Mahomet the prophet envious...
...swimming into sight again miles away, had most of Europe agog. It was staying up too long! Evidently it could not come down! There was said to be oxygen supply for only ten hours, and here it was 15 hours already. Piccard and Kipfer must be floating, like Mahomet in his coffin, dead in the middle...
...guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...
...Mahomet is described as an Arabian Lion, roaring, like the Lions of Wichita, Kan., in behalf of municipal improvements rather than God. The conquests of Alexander sprang from his original necessity to surpass the celebrity of his father, Philip of Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal...