Lexicographical Neighbors of Shammas
Literary usage of Shammas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Moorish Empire in Europe by Samuel Parsons Scott (1904)
"Meanwhile, Ibn-shammas informed the Emir of what had happened, ... The traitors
instantly took the alarm; the house of Ibn-shammas was deserted in a moment; ..."
2. Six Months in a Syrian Monastery: Being the Record of a Visit to the Head by Oswald Hutton Parry (1895)
"shammas Efrem did not keep us long waiting, but soon came in, like Boaz, ...
shammas Efrem casually mentioned afterwards that he was known to have committed ..."
3. The Holy Land and Syria by Frank George Carpenter (1922)
"My guide, shammas, who stands beside me, tells me that it looks like a camel,
... "Now look again," says shammas, "and see if it is not like a fan! ..."
4. A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the by Ulick Ralph ( Burke (1895)
"Tahia, foiled once more in his endeavours, now offered the throne, quite after
the good old Visigothic fashion, to one ben shammas, a cousin-german of the ..."
5. Original Virtue, and Other Short Studies by S. Levy (1907)
"Hence the " shammas " (the " attendant " candle by which the other lights are
kindled) has been instituted to take its place near the ..."
6. A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the by Ulick Ralph Burke (1900)
"Tahia, foiled once more in his endeavours, now offered the throne, quite after
the good old Visigothic fashion, to one Ben shammas, a cousin-german of the ..."
7. The Churches and Monasteries of Egypt and Some Neighbouring Countries by Abū Ṡāliḣ, Basil Thomas Alfred Evetts, Alfred Joshua Butler (1895)
"There were two places of the name in the same province; but there is now only
one Mit shammas, which is in the district of ..."
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