"Bismillah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gave him the dirham and the danik, and he went away. And when morning dawned, I went to the station but found him not; so I enquired for him and was told, He cometh thither only on Sabbaths.' Accordingly, when Saturday came, I betook me to the market and finding him there, said to him, Bismillah, do me the favour to come and work for me.' Said he, Upon the conditions thou wottest;' and I answered Yes!' Then carrying him to my house I stood to watch him where he could not see me; and he took a handful of puddled ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... Charybdis, With limestone which ribb'd is; A touch from a pebble might seam her; Made a curtsey to Scylla, As the Turks say, "Bismillah," 'Twas a very close shave for ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various |
