"Kafir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anecdote will show, that in some particulars the African and European women have a great resemblance to each other, and that conjugal infidelity is by no means confined to the latter. A young man, a kafir of considerable affluence, who had recently married a young and handsome wife, applied to a very devout Bushreen or Mussulman priest of his acquaintance, to procure him saphies for his protection during the approaching war. The Bushreen complied with his request, and to render the saphies more ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... his Authority falls short, And his Dominion crumbles at the Base. For he, discerning not the Characters Of Tyranny and Justice, confounds both, Making the World a Desert, and the Fount Of Justice a Serab. Well was it said, "Better just Kafir than Believing Tyrant." ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Salaman and Absal • Omar Khayyam and Ralph Waldo Emerson
... "'Only a crawling kafir,' sayest thou, O heathen! and straightway goest about to stick a fork into a political symbol? Verily, the hapless wretch shall be sacrificed unto Agnee, god of Fire, that a timely warning may enter into thy ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various
... Light Horse had a few bad hours on March 22nd at the hands of the Boers, they and their colonial comrades were soon able to return the same with interest. On March 23rd Babington moved forward through Kafir Kraal, the enemy falling back before him. Next morning the British again advanced, and as the New Zealanders and Bushmen, who formed the vanguard under Colonel Gray, emerged from a pass they saw upon the plain in front of them the Boer force with all ...
— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle
... I would like to have a lover is as follows: So I would understand the experience of being regarded that way. It would be like plowing up the sage-brush to plant kafir-corn and millo-maize, because until such time, there is bound to be a part ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... our journey we outspanned just outside the Kafir kraals, and often entered into them; one of my companions speaking the native, as well as the Dutch languages very fluently. We were always received by both Boers, and Kafirs, very kindly. Sometimes we were accompanied ...
— A Winter Tour in South Africa • Frederick Young
... is the kafir afraid of? What crimes hath he committed, that he would have his pardon granted before he tells his story?" said the ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Frederick Marryat
... a Kafir die, to him is remitted Jehannum If he borrowed in life from a native at sixty per ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling |
