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  • Also, selu wrote a great post on story. eta: La nouvelle «Miss USA» est originaire du sud du Liban: Un village du sud du Liban, région fief du Hezbollah, est en liesse depuis le 16 mai 2010: une fille du pays, une fille du village de Srifa a été élue « Miss USA ».

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  • Indeed, O my lady, I fear lest the Prince of True Believers hear of her and break the law and slay her husband and take love-liesse with her. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he kissed the letter and laid it between his eyes; then, calling to mind that which had betided him with her of the sweets of love-liesse, he poured forth his tears whilst he recited these couplets,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he arose and putting off his clothes sat down on the bed and sought love-liesse and they fell to toying with each other.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “O my son, sit thou beside the Dervish when I am gone out and sport with him and provoke him to love-liesse and if he seek of thee lewdness, I who will be watching you from the window overlooking the saloon will come down to him and kill him.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He replied, “O my lady, never lacked love-liesse between folk319; so cut thou not off from me hope of this and whatsoever thou seekest of me of money and raiment and ornaments and what not else, I will give thee.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he recalled the days of love-liesse dear and union with his slave-girl without peer, and he shed bitter tears and recited these couplets,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Presently Aladdin bade the handmaids spread the table before him, and he and the Lady Badr al-Budur took seat thereat and fell to eating and drinking, in all joy and gladness, till they had their sufficiency, when, removing to the chamber of wine and cup converse, they sat there and caroused in fair companionship and each kissed other with all love liesse.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • Better death end a lover's woes than that a weary life He live, rejected and forlorn, forbidden from liesse.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

  • She blest me with the sweets of all her glorious charms, What while her converse filled my spirit with liesse.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

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