Only a few remnants – small stands of trees kept in sacred areas called "marabout" - maintain the natural structure of this forest type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediterranean woodlands and forests] Reference

I was a sorcerer, a kind of marabout, a direct emissary of the Prophet. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teeth of the Tiger] Reference

Death of Abu al-Abbas Mahalli, a prominent marabout.    From Wordnik.com.  [1553-54] Reference

Why not be quiet and return home, and live a marabout?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

You would assuredly take the marabout for the greatest fool that.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Abd-el-Kader is a marabout warrior, greatly revered and idolized by all enthusiastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

She's worshipped as a marabout, but she hates spells and she does her best to break them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

The marabout now came after it, and when close to its tail, threw the rum over it, mumbling some strange sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Nearly every city in Morocco had a patron marabout whose tomb became a place of popular pilgrimage and veneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [1553-54] Reference

This isle, on the verge of the ocean, contains some little forts and a mosque, and its marabout shrines sparkle in the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Morocco] Reference

An Arab at once answered "marabout! marabout!" and then we remembered that this was the name for mosque, and nodded, "Yes, marabout.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Rising at last, in a fluff of his marabout plumes, he armed himself with his spear and his oval shield covered with an heraldic design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

His wife was even more portly than himself, and sat, in black velvet and marabout feathers, as stately as a princess at a drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

Tulle dresses of two or three jupes have the lowest one edged simply with a hem, and the upper ones edged with a row of marabout fringe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Sidi Mokhtar, a marabout, is appointed Governor of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

When he passed the marabout he cried aloud in French.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I] Reference

It is a rival to the analine dyes and to the marabout feathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Essays] Reference

I have one daughter; I never permitted her to consult a marabout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

A marabout sanctuary and garden at the base of the mountains, is called their port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

"She has no faith in the marabout!" squawked one, who had a nose like an eagle's beak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halima And The Scorpions 1905] Reference

Next day I rode on horseback to Tamacine, asked to see the marabout and told him all the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halima And The Scorpions 1905] Reference

Our determined answer greatly enraged the marabout, who had expected to make easy converts of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures] Reference

At this moment a loud noise was heard, and the assassins led by the marabout entered Joliette's dungeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I] Reference

Yes, now you shall taste something nice, and you will see the marabout bird, and the ibis, and the crane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference

Tyler Anderson follows the talibe children, sent by their parents to live with and beg for their marabout '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

"In the desert there are mysteries," continued the marabout, "which even the faithful must not seek to penetrate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Halima And The Scorpions 1905] Reference

The marabout was delighted at the effect of his words, and uttering a cry he sprang from his perch and disappeared in the crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I] Reference

Chantilly lace, and marabout feathers, who would weigh down sixteen of you and me, and who worships the ground her nephew walks on.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Secret] Reference