"Salm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... South of this line, the seaboard of North-Western Arabia, as far as El-Hejaz, has no generic name. The Bedawin are contented with such vague terms, derived from some striking feature, as "the Lands of Zib," "of Wady Salm," "of Wady Dmah," "of El-Wijh," to denote the tract lying between the parallels of El-Muwaylah and of Wady Hamz () in north lat. 25 55' 15. Thus the north-south length of the southern moiety would be 105 direct geographical miles, ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... by the name "moorosin,'' and asked for it under that name in the store. In order to aid his memory he had associated it with the word for black man niger negro moor, and thus had substituted moor for nigro in the construction of the word he wanted. Again, somebody asked for the "Duke Salm'' or the "Duke Schmier.'' The request was due to the fact that in the Austrian dialect salve is pronounced like salary and the colloquial for "salary'' is "schmier'' (to wipe). Dr. Ernst Lohsing tells me that he was once informed ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... spite of being continually harassed and cruelly deceived day after day, never failed in consideration for those about him. He retired to Queretaro, where Generals Miramon, Castillo, Mejia, Avellano, and Prince Salm-Salm had gathered a little army of ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer |
