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It is pretty to see the wonderful sense of balance these girls display in carrying their water-pots, which they seldom touch with their hand, and it is surprising also what great weights even young girls are able to support, for a "balass" filled with water is often a load too heavy for her to raise to her head without the assistance of another.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

Like all the poor, they are always obliging to each other, and I recently witnessed a pathetic sight at one of these village watering-places, when an old woman, too infirm to carry her "balass" herself, was with difficulty struggling down the bank and leading a blind man, who bore her burden for her.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

They observed it narrowly and espied therein a young lady, as she were the full moon overhanging the horizon-edge, with pendants in her ears of costly balass-rubies and a collar of precious stones about her throat.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So they took their pleasure in its streets and alleys, till they came to the Palace of Gold and entering passed through seven vestibules, when they drew near to a building, whose walls were of royal balass rubies and its pavement of emerald and jacinth.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Notables, some were of balass-ruby and some of carnelian, others of coral or Comorin aloes-wood and yet others of ebony or silver or gold; and each had his own idol, after the measure of his competence; whilst the idols of the common soldiers and of the people were some of granite, some of wood, some of pottery and some of mud; and all were of various hues yellow and red; green, black and white.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Now to this chain were attached ten balls and nine crescents, and each crescent had in its midst a bezel of ruby, and each ball a bezel of balass: the value of the chain was three thousand diners and each of the balls was priced at twenty thousand dirhams, so that the dress she wore was worth in all a great sum of money.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

If you are a poet, and you make good verses, it is likely enough that some queen will stuff your mouth with balass rubies.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

In another she stood by the edge of the Nile, in converse with a native woman who bore a _balass_ on her head; and even the tiny picture was sufficiently large to bring out the contrast between the slim, fair English girl in her white gown and

Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes

If you are a poet, and you make good verses, it is likely enough that some queen will stuff your mouth with balass rubies.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

Hispaniola, and the taking therefrom porcelain, many bales of rich silk and rosaries of gold beads, a balass-ruby, twenty wedges of silver, and

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903