"Fellah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mass Robert, dat a calamity war comin'. It am come—De Missus am married to dat fellah wat ye walloped wid de stick. Hi! but I ...
— The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story - of Bacon's Rebellion) • John R. Musick
... stand by the private pastern alway and, whenever she espy me coming, at once to open. And now I will devise a device whereby to slay this damned loon." Herewith he arose and, issuing from the pavilion door, walked till he met on the way a Fellah to whom he said, "O man, take my attire and give me thy garments." But the peasant refused, so Alaeddin stripped him of his dress perforce[FN203] and donned it, leaving to the man his own rich gear by way of gift. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... blows what great stretches of experience, and all the lost good opinion of the world! In the deep silence of the orange-garden just then premonition whispered to her. She longed for the renewed cry of the fellah to drown that sinister voice, but when it came, distant, yet loud, down the alley between the trees, it seemed to her like premonition's voice, suddenly raised in menace against her. And she seemed to hear behind it, and very far away, the world which had been her world once more crying ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens
... not angry with Brighella— I'm but a poor, ill-paid, hardworking fellah— The Emperor has ordered that no fly Shall enter this apartment—you know why; But tho' he's king, his daughter really rules. It's hard to keep one's balance 'twixt two stools! And what a woman wills, for good or evil. That must be done, or ...
— Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
... fellah could do,—said the young man John, so called,—a fellah'd like the chance o' helpin' a little cripple like that. He looks as if he couldn't turn over any handier than a turtle that's laid on his back; and I guess there a'n't many people that know how to lift better ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... health. Those miserable Egyptians appeared to be in a hopeless condition morally. It was impossible to instil any spirit into them, and if sick, they at once made up their minds to die. It is to be hoped that my regiment of convicts was not a fair sample of the spirit and intelligence of the Egyptian fellah. Some of ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker |
