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  • I repeated to him the story I had told the sailors,54 but acquainted him with nothing of that which had befallen me in the city and the cavern, lest there should be any of the islandry in the ship.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I repeated to him the story I had told the sailors, but acquainted him with nothing of that which had befallen me in the city and the cavern, lest there should be any of the islandry in the ship.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • This flaw, which in England would poison all domestic affection, was not looked upon in a serious light by the islandry.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • I repeated to him the story I had told the sailors, [FN#54] but acquainted him with nothing of that which had befallen me in the city and the cavern, lest there should be any of the islandry in the ship.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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