"ABB" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'l-Abbs al-Mubarrad,[FN198] "I set out one day with a company to Al-Brid on an occasion and, coming to the monastery of Hirakl,[FN199] we alighted in its shade. Presently a man came out to us and said, 'There are madmen in the monastery,[FN200] and amongst them one ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... of the wreckers, have been the ships cast away along that rugged coast-line which starts southward from the grim promontory of St. Abb's Head, and runs, cruelly rock-girt or stretched in open bay of yellow sand, away past Berwick and down by Holy Island. Many have been the disasters, pitiful on occasion the loss of life. But never, since history began, ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang |
