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Definition of Shams
1. sham [v] - See also: sham
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shams
Literary usage of Shams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"The author was living at the time of Tamerlane's invasion to India in 1398 AD,
801 AH, whom he has mentioned in his work. shams ..."
2. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period by John Dowson, Henry Miers Elliot (1871)
"Little is known of shams-i Siraj beyond what is gleaned from his own work. ...
The reason of this may be that shams-i Siraj enters more than usual into ..."
3. The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: (Tartarian Tales) by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, Leonard Charles Smithers (1893)
"... Astrakhan rang with a thousand acclamations of joy, which reached the palace
of shams al-Din. The monarch, surprised at so uncommon a noise, ..."
4. The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: (Tartarian Tales) by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, Leonard Charles Smithers (1893)
"... Astrakhan rang with a thousand acclamations of joy, which reached the palace
of shams al-Din. The monarch, surprised at so uncommon a noise, ..."
5. The Danville Quarterly Review (1863)
"I. — shams and Presumptions of Physical Philosophy. hold in great respect and
honor, all men of true science and true philosophy of whatever kind. ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Amid a Babel of noisea and factions, he stands calm, judicial, self- contained;
and minds that hate shams and love truth and beauty are reassured by his ..."
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