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He listens fascinated for a thousand-and-one nights until finally he lets her live as his wife and foregoes his murderous ways.

Arab Spring influence closes out Edinburgh Festival Reuters 2011

And I'm sure as soon as I turn around and look at my wall of books in my library that I've forgotten a thousand-and-one other absolute favorites.

James Rollins discusses the truth behind The Map of Bones and also answers many questions relating to his life and work in general.. 2010

Here in dim and desperate forms, under the ban of our base culture, stormed at by silly magistrates, sneered at by silly schoolmasters -- here is the old popular literature still popular; here is the unmistakable voluminousness, the thousand-and-one tales of Dick Deadshot, like the thousand-and-one tales of Robin Hood.

Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009

He listens fascinated for a thousand-and-one nights until finally he lets her live as his wife and foregoes his murderous ways.

Arab Spring influence closes out Edinburgh Festival Reuters 2011

Any of these and a thousand-and-one other '' crises '' could be used as an excuse for BHO to invoke an Obomination Sedition Act, which, in turn, could be used as an excuse to '' postpone '' elections in 2010 or 2012 for '' security reasons. ''

Terry Krepel: Robert Ringer's Voice of Insanity 2010

However, Eddington and company still had to traipse to the ends of the Earth, camp on a desert island and account for the thousand-and-one factors of error which confounded their photographs of the solar eclipse.

Physics Envy on a Cold Day « Imaginary Potential 2008

It comes also from practical prescriptions that accumulate with experience: working temperature and pressure parameters, the settings for machines and instruments used, process timings, material strengths, clearance distances for assemblies—the thousand-and-one small pieces of knowledge that comprise the “cookery” of the art.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

In a thousand cases out of a thousand-and-one, saying "I'm sorry" is a moral act that's both difficult and necessary.

The enactment of moral experience 2009

Why focus on the bumper cars when there are a thousand-and-one follies, jollies and lick-em lollies to choose from?

Sexy feet | My[confined]Space 2009

Pink triumphs in all its shades, alongside the intense red of rubies, the orange shades of mandarin garnets, the lavender tones of amethysts, the thousand-and-one blues of the aquamarine?

Diary of a Spring Night in Rome by Cartier with Monica Bellucci 2007