"The silly newspapers call him a 'remarkable man, a personality.'
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker
On the plain round Genje are seven districts of Infidel villages, where cotton, silk and rice are cultivated; here are rich Moghs (ancient Persians, worshippers of fire) and beautiful youth of both sexes; the horse-shoes of Genje are not less famous than the silk.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi
“The silly newspapers call him a ‘remarkable man, a personality.’
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker
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