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Usage examples of afghan.

Nadir Shah of Persia began in just such a cave of Adullam, and lived to plunder Delhi with a host of Persians and Afghans.

Pakistani FIA agents, they found a stack of pictures of bin Laden taken during the Afghan War.

High ceilings, polished wood, antiques, dollies protecting table tops, a basket of pine cones next to the fireplace, an afghan draped over the arm of the sofa-the whole Americana bit.

Merchants in flowing silk robes sat cross-legged before their booths, extolling the quality of their goods--Mosul silk, matchlocks from Herat, edged weapons from India, and seed pearls from Baluchistan, hawk-like Afghans and weapon-girdled Uzbeks jostled him.

The results would not hold up to a determined tug, but Ross now looked like a Bokharan of Afghan or Persian origin.

Khiva through Afghan and Bokharan sources, have grown like a snow-ball in its onward course, until the riches described in the garden discovered by Aladdin would pale if compared with the fabled treasures of Hindoostan.

After laying out the plan, Franks left for Afghanistan for the installation of Hamid Karzai as the Afghan president.

The air strikes did two things: they terrified many of the Afghan troops, and they isolated the frontline troops from their rear area support.

But the crafty priest, who was well acquainted with Afghan legal procedure, declined the invitation, and retired to the independent Mohmand territory, where he has lived ever since.

In 1986 he had been sent to Peshawar to assist in the training of the disparate groups of mujahedin based in the Afghan refugee camps in the area.

Manny led the way through the seedy lobby into the courtyard restaurant, snared a table just vacated by three Pakistanis and ordered an assortment of Chinese appetizers and two Murree beers from the Afghan boy waiting on tables.

I received a brief impression of overscaled furniture: two matching recliners covered in green plastic, and an eight-foot sectional sofa with an afghan on one end, occupied by a big black dog.

Two huge Afghan hounds, one black, one golden, lolloped among the dancers, their grinning loutishness and primrose eyes somehow turning the pavane altogether into a tapestry fragment glowing far away.

The Afghan workers, who were learning the correct way to place rebar, chattered in their own language.

Most of the Afghans were highly skilled at arranging of rebar and wiring it together now.