How To Use Fellah In A Sentence
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The faces of the fellaheen are the faces of Thotmes and Seti.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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[FN#375] In text "Ant 'amilta maskhará (for maskharah) matah (for matà)," idiomatical Fellah-tongue.
Arabian nights. English
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With its Nile-side corniche awash with fellahin peasants and regal women in dark burqua gowns, this is unmistakably the gateway to Nubia and Africa.
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Let's all hope they take their time to elect the new fellah!
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He feels that he hag been well served by Britain, and the fellah on the Nile is as loyal to Great Britain as is the yyot on the Ganges.
The Relation of the United States to the Issues of the War
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The list was a transection of Egyptian society: governors, judges, bankers, merchants, civil servants, policemen, butchers, and fellahin who, indentured to their own government by the Corvée, sent their slaves to the Suez Canal works as substitute laborers.
Three Empires on the Nile
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[6] A fellah is a peasant, one of the labouring class, just above the slave.
Ancient Egypt
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I think of Egypt where, for the first time in its history, a recorded history that goes back nearly ten thousand years, the fellah, the peasant of the Nile, like the ryot on the Ganges, is able to gather in the fruit of his own labours.
The Relation of the United States to the Issues of the War
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This land was worked by the fellahin, who wielded two to three crops each season, usually keeping one-fourth to one-half of the harvest for themselves.
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Recruits to the cause were extracted from the so-called corvee (the conscripted labour force), which was made up by the fellahin (the peasantry), and though serving in the corvee was an unappealing activity, conscription into the army was even worse.
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Egyptian "fellaheen" have submitted passively to a long series of conquerors, albeit this passivity has been occasionally broken by outbursts of volcanic fury presently dying away into passivity once more.
The New World of Islam
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“Bartús” is evidently formed “on the weight” of “Bartút;” and his metonym is a caricature, a chaff fit for Fellahe.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Wal, Tom he lay there a waitin '; and he waited and waited and waited, till he' most got asleep; but finally he heard a stirrin 'in the box, as if the fellah was a gettin' up.
Oldtown Fireside Stories
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The great man remained a big man to the last days of the Ptolemies, and the fellah was always a dwarf. 6
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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His regime was populist in spirit and brought real change to the lives of millions of poor fellaheen.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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I am absolutely delighted for him because he is a genuinely lovely fellah.
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The muezzin had sounded and Fellah had ignored the call to prayers.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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In his brown robe, faded under the sun to the color of his weathered face and callused hands, he looked more the fellahin than the wealthy landowner.
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To meet the expenses of the great wars on which he was constantly engaged he had to impose taxation which, even if levied by more regular methods, was almost as crushing as the unregulated spoliation under the Mamelukes, and gradually his Mudirs and Mamours and Omdehs had to have recourse to the same methods as the revenue-farmers in the Mameluke days to screw the last piastre out of the helpless fellaheen, whilst recruitment for the armies which demanded incessant reinforcements became an even worse terror than the kurbash of the tax collector and the interminable corvées.
The Egyptian Problem
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Apart from being “a grave mischief,” that would be an embarrassment to liberalism, as “bastinadoed fellahin would be reported to Parliament at the rate of a hundred cases a week.”
Three Empires on the Nile
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But this plain, where the fellaheen are stooping to the soil, and the women are carrying the water-jars, and the children are playing in the doura, and the oxen and the camels are working with ploughs that look like relics of far-off days, is the possession of the two great presiding beings whom you see from an enormous distance, the Colossi of
The Spell of Egypt
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I have described one of the poorest of the "fellah" villages, but the traveller is often more luxuriously housed.
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
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Accordingly he bade him set the porringer amiddlemost the table and ate of it his sufficiency, whilst the Fellah filled his belly with those rich meats.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Some kind of agent character Grosvenor muses on 'fellah' cultures that become too conservative and resistant and violent against change, and then uses superpowers to take over the ship.
The Blal by A.E. Van Vogt
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But the Egyptian fellah is thinking about where he's going to get his next paycheck to feed his family.
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My father's family is from the fellaheen, now a generation removed, yet they are divided on this last point.
Sahar Taman: Egyptians have No Intention of Allowing their Revolution to be Hijacked
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Yet under Mohammed Ali the Great, Fellah-soldiers conquered the "colligated" Arabs (Pilgrimage iii. 48) of Al-Asir
Arabian nights. English
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As they passed through the villages of the Nile Delta, crowds of Egyptian fellaheen shook the soles of their sandals at the train—the ultimate Egyptian insult.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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After twelve months of negotiation, the fellaheen were at last bought out on fair terms, each proprietor receiving a stated price for his dwelling and a piece of land elsewhere, upon which to build another.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Though I am in truth a Turk, and those who serve and rob me here are Turks, yet the fellah is the same as he was five thousand years ago.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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But they soon discovered that the peasant farmers on the edges of the crowd, the fellaheen, had mostly never heard of Mohamed ElBaradei, while many of those who had were afraid to put down their full names in support of his campaign.
One Man Versus the Mubaraks
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All right sir, pass in sir, excuse me sir," says my very polite guard, and a "fellah" that "knows the ropes," is admitted.
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