"Salaam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... river Atbara is about 450 yards in average width, and from twenty-five to thirty feet deep during the rainy season. It brings down the entire drainage of Eastern Abyssinia, receiving as affluents into its main stream the great rivers Taccazy (or Settite), in addition to the Salaam and Angrab. The junction of the Atbara in lat. 17 degrees 37 minutes N. is thus, in a direct line from Alexandria, about 840 geographical miles of latitude, and, including the westerly bend of the Nile, its bed will be about ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... obsequious waiters, with spotless napkins thrown over their arms, and making a profound salaam, and hemming deferentially, whenever they uttered ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... to depart, before further harm was done. Twemlow perceived that he had tumbled into a difficult position, and the only way out of it was to make off. Giving pledges to return in two moons at the latest, he made his salaam to the sensitive young Queen, whose dignity was only surpassed by her grace, and expecting to be shortened by the head, returned with all speed to the great King Golo. Honesty is the best policy—as we ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... Capital: Dar es Salaam note: some government offices have been transferred to Dodoma, which is planned as the new national capital; the National Assembly now meets ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... name: Dar es Salaam geographic coordinates: 6 48 S, 39 17 E time difference: UTC3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) note: legislative offices have been transferred to Dodoma, which is planned as the ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... gentlemen, I preferred the field of science, which was still open to me, and became an engineer. Mr Cutts, whose great acquirements and brilliant genius have raised him to such eminence in the profession"—here Cutts made a grateful salaam—"can bear testimony to the humble share of talent I have laid at the national disposal; and if you, my kinsman, are connected with any of the incipient enterprises in the north, I should be proud of an opportunity of showing you that the genius of ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... science explodes the popular fallacy that chameleons assume, and reflect at will, the color of the substance on which they rest or feed; but, with a profound salaam to savants, it is respectfully submitted that the mental saurian—human thought— certainly takes its changing hues, day by day, from the books through which ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans
... up to his room. He was welcomed by a screech from the parrot and a dignified salaam from James, who was trimming the wick of the oil-lamp. For the last year and a half this room had served as headquarters. Many a financial puzzle had been pieced together within these dull drab walls; many a dream had ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... commissioner was of the race of cavaliers who make salaam before the trail of a skirt without considering ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... on earth can make a man stay with a woman he does not love," she said calmly, "nor take him from one he does. You must know little, or you would know that love is stronger than all law. I give you leave to withdraw. Salaam." ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... English," my guide said, nodding. And making me a most profound salaam, he added: "Why not talk with him? I have duties. ...
— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy
... found that the Maharajah had sent his salaam, together with the information that he was going to give a nach and dinner, to which ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... for my wife and fireside have been for some time past obliterated by the cup of your generosity. If my petition gain admission to the durbar of your enlightened auditory, I will return to give them the salaam of health, and inquire into the situation ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston
... without saying what they said." The pacha, irritated at his disappointment, and little soothed by the remark of Mustapha, without making any answer to it, was about to retire to his harem, when Mustapha, with a low salaam, informed him that the renegade was in attendance to relate his Second Voyage, if he might be permitted to kiss the dust of his presence. "Khoda shefa midehed—God gives relief," replied the pacha, as he resumed his seat: ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat
... Wherever you bid me stay, there I will stay; and I will eat any food you give me." "Take him with you," said the old tiger; "one day you will find him of use." So the boy took the cub and the milk, and made his salaam to the old tigers and went home. His mothers were delighted at his return, though, as they had no eyes, ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Anonymous
... raised his thin, largely-veined brown hands to his closely-cropped head, half making the native salaam, and then, ...
— The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled • George Manville Fenn
... a concise summary of the Nile system, I shall describe twelve months' exploration, during which I examined every individual river that is tributary to the Nile from Abyssinia, including the Atbara, Settite, Royan, Salaam, Angrab, Rahad, Dinder, and the Blue Nile. The interest attached to these portions of Africa differs entirely from that of the White Nile regions, as the whole of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia is capable of development, and is inhabited by races either Mohammedan or Christian; while Central Africa ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... to our speech," he said. "It sounds strangely, indeed—as strange as your answers." He looked at us quizzically. "I wonder where you learned it! Well, all that you can explain to the Afyo Maie." His head bowed and his arms swept out in a wide salaam. "Be pleased to come ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... rose also, and making our salaam to his majesty, which he hardly deigned to acknowledge, we departed ...
— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard
... another salaam, "I am a disgraced man, but if you will take me up there with you, I will fight by your side until both my arms are hacked off. I am weary of these thieves. Ill chance threw me into their company: I will have no more of them. If you will not have me on the rock, give me a gun. I will ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... Guides tell me there is a sending of me. What you call classes? Yes? I teach: you learn. We all learn.... I leave all to you. I will walk a little way off to arbour, and meditate, and then when you have arranged, you will tell Guru, who is your servant. Salaam! Om!" ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... elephant salute crashed out into the jungle silence—the full voiced salaam to a new king. Muztagh ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... as the Sea Rover was, with three boys and a dog, not to mention our supplies and our armament, at last we were afloat with crew and cargo aboard. Hiro was not surprised, and asked no questions. With the salaam with which he announced dinner, he now announced his own departure for his duties at my deserted house; and as he walked he never turned around for curious gaze. Often, often have I, in my readings in ...
— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough
... salaam, said he would do his best, and took his leave, requesting that the boats might be kept at the bank of the river ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... get to El Kurfah guess what Carlos is going to give me!" she confides to Sadie. "A riding camel and Batime. He's one of the best camel drivers in the place, Batime. And I have learned to salaam and say 'Allah il Allah.' Everyone must do that there. And in our garden are dates and oranges growing. Only fancy! There will be five slaves to wait on me, and when we go to the palace I shall wear gold bracelets on my ankles. Won't that seem odd? ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford |
