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Selim is an amazing contact to have (great guy) and we get to reminsce about teachers from 5th grade.
Archive 2009-06-01 alexis 2009
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Selim is an amazing contact to have (great guy) and we get to reminsce about teachers from 5th grade.
The Fire Land: triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho alexis 2009
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Selim is a nickname for an unidentified contemporary at Westminster.
Letter 68 1793
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Suleyman's only surviving son, often known as Selim the Sot for his love of drinking, was not an active ruler.
1561 2001
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I had engaged an Iraqi ground engineer with "A" and "C" licences called Selim, but I didn't trust him much and anyway he wasn't licensed for complete overhauls; I should have to do that myself.
ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951
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Henriette's horse, but did not appreciate the name, and declared he should be called Selim, for she knew she had read of some great man who had a horse by that name, and who ever heard of one named
Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna
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They slackened the pace and Chase called Selim up from behind.
The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Most gracious Lord and master, 'replied the Vizier, near the great Mosque lives a man called Selim the learned, who knows every language under the sun.
The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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If you can, I will give you a robe of honour; but if you fail, I will order you to receive twelve strokes on your cheeks, and five-and-twenty on the soles of your feet, because you have been falsely called Selim the learned. '
The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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In boyhood I longed to be an Arab of the desert and have a beautiful mare, and call her Selim or Benjamin or
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 Mark Twain 1872
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