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" Lord, you know," the enchanter will say, " that this god, when he gets no offerings, always sends bad weather and spoils our seasons. So we pray you to give us such and such a number of black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we... "
Some Heroes of Travel: Or, Chapters from the History of Geographical ... - Page 14
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 408 pages
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning ..., Volume 1; Volume 155

Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pages
...they also can perform it.9 black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of incense, and such a quantity of lignalocs, and " — so much of this, so much of that, and so much of t'other, according to their fancy...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volume 1

Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pages
...such and such a number of black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of...may be induced to protect us and all that is ours." The Bacsi say these things to the Barons entrusted with the Stewardship, who stand round the Great...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volume 1

Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pages
...such and such a number of black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of...may be induced to protect us and all that is ours." The Bacsi say these things to the Barons entrusted with the Stewardship, who stand round the Great...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volume 1

Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pages
...such and such a number of black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of...may be induced to protect us and all that is ours." The Bacsi say these things to the Barons entrusted with the Stewardship, who stand round the Great...
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Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 10

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai - 1876 - 704 pages
...such and such a number of black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of...may be induced to protect us and all that is ours." The Bacsi say these thing to the Barons entrusted with the Stewardship, who stand round the Great Kaan,...
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Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 368 pages
...us such and such a number of black-faced sheep," (naming any number they please). "And we beg also, good my Lord, that we may have such a quantity of...a quantity of lign-aloes, and — so much of this or so much of that, according to the measure of their cupidity or the probability of their expectations...
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Anecdotes on Bible texts. The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Romans

J L. Nye - 1882 - 138 pages
...in a kindly manner. If your doctor were to give you a prescription, and you were to say, ' There is so much of this, so much of that, and so much of the other ' — suppose there are five ingredients — ' I will take away a little of the first, and...
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The Buddhism of Tibet: Or Lamaism, with Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and ...

Laurence Austine Waddell - 1895 - 704 pages
...also that we may have such a quantity of incense, etc., etc., that we may perform a solemn service and great sacrifice to our idols, and that so they may be induced to protect us and all that is ours." The great kaan then orders the barons to give everything the Bacsi hard asked for. And when they have...
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St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, Volume 23

Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1896 - 572 pages
...such and such a number of black-faced sheep,' ' naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of...— so much of this, so much of that, and so much of t' other, according to their fancy — "that we may perform a solemn service and a great sacrifice...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 23, Part 2

Mary Mapes Dodge - 1896 - 548 pages
...such and such a number of black-faced sheep," naming whatever number they please. " And we beg also, good my lord, that we may have such a quantity of...— so much of this, so much of that, and so much of t' other, according to their fancy — "that we may perform a solemn service and a great sacrifice...
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