How To Use Mahomet In A Sentence
- Adeo ubique (as [6408] Scaliger writes of the Mahometan priests), tum gentium tum locorum, gens ista sacrorum ministra, vulgi secat spes, ad ea quae ipsi fingunt somnia, so cunningly can they gull the commons in all places and countries. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Its distinguished history has made shampoo a grand Global English word, or rather a Hindi word anglicized and reinvented by speakers of English, from the days of the East India Company and Sake Dean Mahomet to the scientists and marketing wizards of corporate America.4 The English Is Coming!
- The Arabs are especially fond of relics; thus, upon the return from a pilgrimage to Mecca, the "hadji" or pilgrim is certain to have purchased from some religious Faky of the sacred shrine either a few square inches of cloth, or some such trifle, that belonged to the prophet Mahomet. In the Heart of Africa
- I could long for a Mahomet, whose persuasive eloquence, with wild-flashing heart and scimiter, is, 'Wretched moral, give up that; or by the Eternal, thy maker and mine, I will kill thee! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
- No doubt the whole 'corpus dogmatum,' so supported, will, by the entire body of such believers, be eaten up; just as was the Mahometan hog, so humorously referred to by Cowper; but even that had not all its 'forbidden parts' miraculously shown to be 'unforbidden' to different minds! The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
- You would suppose that this declaration, so clearly enounced, and that, too, in a place where Mahometanism is perhaps more supreme than in any other part of the empire, would have sufficed to have confirmed the pretensions of the lover. Eothen
- ‘simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol {95}, and English Past and Present
- If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
- Inest enim ijs falsa persuasio ita vt putent vnumquemque in ea qua natus est secta posse beari, si susceptam seruauerit illibatè: ideoque probant ab opposito se esse bonos, quia, sicut dicunt, obseruant scripta legis præcepta et ceremonias sancti libri sui à Deo sibi transmissi per beatum nuncium suum Mahomet. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- Heraclius in the warres againste the Persians: when he had gotten the victory, and thei perceiued them selues to be defrauded by him: kindled with the angre of the villanye thei had done vnto them, by the counsell and persuasion of Mahomet (who tooke vppon him to be their captaine) thei forsoke Heraclius. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
