‘Only a Kurdish giaour would fire on the livery of the Kaaba.’. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
"I promised the old infidel that he should have the real stuff, and I'll let him see that a giaour can keep his word.". From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
"Death to the giaour; down with him!" roared the excited crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference
"The audacious giaour who dared to impersonate Moley Pasha?" asked. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference
I will strike this giaour of a Frenchman in his tenderest spot -- his heart!. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference
It was obedience to his prophet, who bade him take advantage of the giaour -- quite. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference
It was obedience to his prophet, who bade him take advantage of the giaour -- quite a different thing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon]
"Let the giaour, who has unwarrantably assaulted the true believers, receive one hundred lashes," he said; "or pay fifty pieces of silver to our treasury.". From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference
And now something happened which had hitherto been deemed incredible; the Sultan sued for peace, a true believer and a sovereign, from an unbelieving giaour. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Italian dragoman, suspecting him of being a giaour, pulled him by his beard, thereby offering him the greatest insult possible in his character of Mussulman. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
It was, in short, the old story of "kindred souls," and, despite the fact that these Turks were to Lancey "furriners" and "unbelievers," while he was to them a "giaour," they felt strong human sympathies which drew them powerfully together. From Wordnik.com. [In the Track of the Troops] Reference
It's capital fun, for you can hear all his wives whispering together behind the mat curtains, and they get peeping at you while you're having all the good things, and are longing to join in, but they mustn't be seen by a giaour, or the son of a giaour, as they call me. From Wordnik.com. [The Rajah of Dah] Reference
"It seems to me that this giaour is very probably the dupe of others. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference
"Look here, sir, I know I'm a dog -- a giaour, and that you are one of the faithful, and that it is a good deed on your part to injure me as an enemy, but, mind this, if you stick that knife thing into my leg too far, I'll -- I'll -- confound you, sir!. From Wordnik.com. [Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor] Reference
You yourself will become a giaour. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
10. giaour. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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