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... after public prayers; go to the Mosque and pray; then mount thine ass, and ask for the Habbaniyah[FN528] quarter; and, when there, look out for the mansion of Al-Nakib[FN529] Barakat, popularly known as Abu Shamah the Syndic; for I live there: so do not delay as I shall be expecting thee." I rejoiced with still greater joy at this; and took leave of her and returned to my Khan, where I passed a sleepless night. Hardly was I assured that morning had dawned when I rose, changed ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... had wandered a good way from the village—a place little frequented by visitors, where I had a lodging in the house of the syndic—when I was overtaken by one of the sudden fogs which so frequently render those upper regions dangerous. There was no path to guide me back to my temporary home, but, a hundred yards or so beneath where I had been sitting, lay that which led down to one of the best known villages of the canton, ...

— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald