"Mullah" Quotes from Famous Books
... from the Spanish main, Full young and early caged came o'er, With bright wings, to the bleak domain Of Mullah's shore. ... — English Songs and Ballads • Various
... that of a man overwhelmed with the physical. He raves now with lust, now with disgust—two aspects of the same mood. He turns from love to hatred with a change of front as swift as a drunkard's. He is the Mad Mullah of all the sex-antagonism that has ever troubled men since they began to think of woman as a temptress. He was the most enthusiastic modern exponent of the point-of-view of that Adam who explained: "The woman tempted ... — Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... the rebellion of the so-called "mad'' mullah (Hajji Mahommed Abdullah) began on the borders of British Somaliland. An Abyssinian expedition was, at Great Britain's request, sent against the mullah, but without much effect. In the spring and summer of 1901 a fresh expedition from Harrar was undertaken against the mullah, ... — Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |