taleb

The taleb is a man of about fifty, extremely clever, and a pretty good scholar, and had formerly kept a school.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Phillips told him all about my mission, and that I was a great taleb.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Nafzawi divided his book into twenty one-chapters “in order to make it easier reading for the taleb (student).”

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

I received a visit from a Moorish taleb, to whom I read some portions of my journal, as also the Arabic Testament:

Travels in Morocco 2003

Nafzawi divided his book into twenty one-chapters "in order to make it easier reading for the taleb (student)."

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

There was the roof of the Zaouïa mosque, with its low, white domes grouped round the minaret, as somewhere below the youngest boys of the school grouped round the taleb, or teacher.

The Golden Silence 1901

Nafzawi divided his book into twenty one-chapters "in order to make it easier reading for the taleb (student)."

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

"America -- Chicago," with the full belief that the _taleb_ must have heard of the bustling city upon Lake Michigan.

Miss Caprice George Rathborne 1896

There is a distorted reflection of the story in M. Rene Basset's recently published "Contes Populaires BerbÞres," No. xxix., which is to this effect: A taleb proclaims, "Who will sell himself for 100 mitqals?"

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

The taleb repeats certain words, upon which the earth opens, and he sends down the slave for "the candlestick, the reed, and the box."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855