The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.

The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.

a billionfold dilution

Not such his evening, who with shining face Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed And bored with elbow-points through both his sides, Out scolds the ranting actor on the stage.