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  • Under the bosom of her shift the garths of Eden are

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then they went out and questioned the gardeners if they had seen the King, and they answered, “No;” whereat they were sore concerned and searched all the garths till the end of the day, when they returned in tears.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When I entered her city with the caravan, I went forth and wandered about the garths till I came to a flower garden abounding in trees, whose keeper was a venerable old man, a Shaykh stricken in years.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Moreover she ensorcelled the city with all its streets and garths, and she turned by her gramarye the four islands into four mountains around the tarn whereof thou questionest me; and the citizens, who were of four different faiths, Moslem, Nazarene, Jew and Magian, she transformed by her enchantments into fishes; the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They fared on all that night till the morning morrowed when lo! they found themselves in a green and smiling country, full of trees spireing and birds quiring and garths fruit-growing and palaces highshowing and waters a-flowing and odoriferous flowers a-blowing.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I landed more like a corpse than a live man and throwing myself down on the beach, lay there awhile, till I began to revive and recover spirits, when I walked about the island and found it as it were one of the garths and gardens of Paradise.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The gardens of Alameda knew her step: the garths of olives knew and bowed.

    Ulysses 2003

  • It clung to the lovely buildings, lurked in the darkness of the apple garths and pear groves.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • Moreover, she ensorceled the city with all its streets and garths, and she turned by her gramarye the four islands into four mountains around the tarn whereof thou questionest me.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • So I landed more like a corpse than a live man, and throwing myself down on the beach, lay there awhile till I began to revive and recover spirits, when I walked about the island, and found it as it were one of the garths and gardens of Paradise.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

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