"Abyssinian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... the Bahr el-Ghazal brings it the overflow of the ill-defined basin stretching between Darfur and the Congo; and the Sobat pours in on the right a tribute from the rivers which furrow the southern slopes of the Abyssinian mountains. The first swell passes Khartum by the end of April, and raises the water-level there by about a foot, then it slowly makes its way through Nubia, and dies away in Egypt at the beginning of June. Its waters, infected by half-putrid organic matter from the ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... of genius and labour, his Dictionary of the English Language; the merit of which I contemplate with more and more admiration. BOSWELL. In like manner we have 'Hermes Harris,' 'Pliny Melmoth,' 'Demosthenes Taylor,' 'Persian Jones,' 'Abyssinian Bruce,' 'Microscope Baker,' 'Leonidas Glover,' 'Hesiod Cooke,' and ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell
... had despotically turned out of his estate an Abyssinian officer in his employ named Ambur Khan, and conferred the same on Prince ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell
... reached Goa, as his book tells, in 1622, and was in 1624, at the age of thirty-one, told off as one of the missionaries to be employed in the conversion of the Abyssinians. They were to be converted, from a form of Christianity peculiar to themselves, to orthodox Catholicism. The Abyssinian Emperor Segued was protector of the enterprise, of which we have here ...
— A Voyage to Abyssinia • Jerome Lobo
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