What is "abdul"

Usage examples of "abdul".

In the case of Abdul, there was little to say: he had by now identified the kingdom of Prester John as that of his princess, except thatgrowing in age and wisdomdistance satisfied him less and less, while the princess, may the god of lovers forgive him, was someone he wanted to be able to put his hands on.

As Abdul tried to explain, those Frankish nobles had adopted the customs of the peoples they had conquered.

For which reason a half-Hibernian, with red hair, could be called Abdul and could have a face burned by the sun of Syria, where he was born.

As to his reasons for coming to Paris, Abdul remained fairly reticent.

But if Abdul finds consolation in telling his grief to us, why should I not find the same in telling my life to her?

In his heart Abdul attributed the letters to his princess, and he agonized as if he had received them himself.

Baudolino and Abdul had been educated in disputation, so first of all they asked themselves: Does a Prester John really exist?

One evening coming home, he found Abdul alone, singing a beautiful song, in which he dreamed of meeting his distant princess, but as she drew closer, he seemed to be receding.

Before fleeing from Aloadin, Abdul had seized one of the pots of green honey, but, as he explained to Baudolino, he had never tasted it again, for fear that the cursed substance would carry him back to that same oasis, to relive infinitely his ecstasy.

There, Abdul, though with some parsimony, offered their guest a touch of green honey, on the tip of a spoon, and they shared another drop.

Shortly before, Baudolino believed that, in imagining the Earthly Paradise, Abdul had forgotten, for one evening at least, his impossible passion.

Christ, Abdul revealed that some of the greatest masters in Paris took advantage at times, though in secret, of the learning of the rabbis, at least for those passages where the coming of the Messiah was not involved.

During the night Abdul managed to remove from the scriptorium of Saint Victoire a parchment of great value, never scraped.

Or into the Hibernia of Abdul, where those seventy-two sages have reconstructed the speech of Adam, putting all languages together, just as you mix water and clay, pitch and bitumen?

To be truthful, since Frederick was employing me more and more as a confidential messenger in various situations, I wanted to create my little personal court, the Poet, Abdul, Boron, Kyot, and Rabbi Solomon.