"Ak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... orgie leaped the Toad-woman like a gigantic scarlet spider, screaming prophecy and performing the inconceivable and nameless rites of Ak-e, Ne-ke, and Ge-zis, until, in her frenzy, she went stark mad, and the devil worship began with the awful ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... accompanied by a suttler from El-Muwaylah, one Hamad, who sold tobacco, coffee, clarified butter, and so forth. He was chaffed with the saying, Hamad fi' bayt ak—"Thy house is ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... Pumpkin desires my presence at the Centre Battalion Head-quarters at 10 ak emma." The C.O. was ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... days when his agility and genius for effecting a quick "get-away" had earned for him his sobriquet. The last time his Bertillon measurements were checked (he was subjected to this humiliating experience in Omaha during the Ak-Sar-Ben carnival three years earlier) official note was taken of the fact that The Hopper's hair, long carried in the records ...
— A Reversible Santa Claus • Meredith Nicholson
... an interesting mission has arrived from the Khan of Kokan, a state to the north of Bokhara, reporting the capture of their fort of Ak Mussid by ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria
... 5. Dvo[vr]ak's "Slavonic Dances" No. 7 and No. 8, also the first movement of Guilmant's "First Symphony" for organ and orchestra given at a Philharmonic Concert, in Boston, with Charles H. ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee |
