"Nan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the spittle (i.e. to break the fast), for it absorbs (lit. uses up, fourth form of "khalik" to be worn out) all that there may be of phlegm on the mouth of the stomach. Can it be that the dish "Khushk-nan" (Pers. dry bread) is meant, of which the village clown in one of Spitta Bey's tales, when he was treated to it by Harun al-Rashid thought it must be the "Hammam," because he has heard his grandmother say, that ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... Bobbsey!" cried Nan, the older sister of the two small twins who had spoken. "A few minutes ago you were in a ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island • Laura Lee Hope
... jug that now foams with mild ale, (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale,) Was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old soul As e'er drank a bottle, or fathomed a bowl; In boosing about 'twas his praise to excel, And among jolly topers lie bore off ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... you drill her, Nan, in the management of her skirt and those French heels, or she will trip herself up. Take your silver butterfly, and catch up that long curl on the left side of her head, Clara, and don't any of you disturb the charming work of my hands," said ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... it, Nan; you needn't rub it in," groaned Phil,—the Indian. "But really, I didn't mean one word of it, and he ought to have known that. Why, Fee's got more brains than the whole crowd of us put together, and if only one of us can go to college, he ought to be that one. I've screwed up my courage, ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
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