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  • At a table in one corner two men -- one tall, darkfaced, coatless, with unbuttoned vest, leather wrist-guards, and a heavy gun loosely buckled about his slim waist; the other thick-set, heavy, red-faced

    The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • Now Dimsdale noticed that, nearer still, just below the Sefi, on the shore, sat a singing-girl, an a'l'meh, with a darkfaced Arab beside her, a kemengeh in his lap.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • With a howl he leaped toward one of the men, a darkfaced nobleman named Berrowag.

    Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Now Dimsdale noticed that, nearer still, just below the Sefi, on the shore, sat a singing-girl, an a'l'meh, with a darkfaced Arab beside her, a kemengeh in his lap.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Now Dimsdale noticed that, nearer still, just below the Sefi, on the shore, sat a singing-girl, an a'l'meh, with a darkfaced Arab beside her, a kemengeh in his lap.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897

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