Month-long Islamic observance

Usage examples of ramadan.

Easter, Ramadan, Chanukah, and all the other festivals and observances of mankind were scheduled to fit whatever time system was adopted.

Bulletins from Party Headquarters are spelled out in obscene charades by hebephrenics and Latahs and apes, Sollubis fart code, Negroes open and shut mouth to Hash messages on gold teeth, Arab rioters send smoke signals by throwing great buttery eunuchs -- they make the best smoke, hangs black and shit-solid in the air -- onto gasoline fires in a rubbish heap, mosaic of melodies, sad Panpipes of humpbacked beggar, cold wind sweeps down from post card of Chimborazzi, flutes of Ramadan, piano music down a windy street, mutilated police calls, advertising leaflet synchronize with street fight spell SOS.

Id al Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast, which celebrates the end of Ramadan on the first of Shawwal, the tenth month.

Ramadan gasped as he looked out across a vast empty space, the valley of the Ume, only a handbreadth from where Marta was lying.

Inspector Hamnes shouted as Ramadan clomped back into the command center.

Buskerud, Colonel Ramadan, and I will coordinate your deployments from here.

Brigadier Sparen and Colonel Ramadan answered that their Raptors were ready to launch and their missile guidance systems were already locked in.

Van Winkle and the two sergeants major were on their feet and crowding in to offer congratulations Ramadan hovered behind them, trying to find space to squeeze in to add his own.

Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.

I remembered the three-cornered zambusi that are made to break the fast during the month of Ramadan and sweet tea with cardamom and milk.

The Lesser Festival of Bairam, which follows the fasting of Ramadan, was being celebrated with visits of ceremony and the giving of gifts.

In the revolution of the lunar year, the Ramadan coincides, by turns, with the winter cold and the summer heat.

In the revolution of the lunar year, the Ramadan coincides, by turns, with the winter cold and the summer heat.

Those were three of Islam's Five Pillars, to which he could add a fourth --the Christian Lent wasn't so terribly different from the Islamic Ramadan.

He could complain authoritatively about the lonelinessof a stranger in Athens during the Eleusyian Mysteries, in ancient Baghdadduring Ramadan, in Rome at Saturnalia, in China at New Year, in the Cave of theOld Ones at the Feast of the Great Bear .