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to an excited jabber of nonsense
We were listening to an excited jabber of nonsense in the hotel—for instance, one of the negro servants said you went away of your own free will—and wondering what on earth we could do, when this genii of an Arab came to me in a mysterious way, and led me straight on your track.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

the Asur el Jedid or New
Other schools have sprung up, and the result is, that the young men and women of Syria are now talking about the "Asur el Jedid," or "New Age of Syria," by which they mean an age of education and light and advancement.
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup

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