"Hajji" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Haji Abdu has been known to me for more years than I care to record. A native, it is believed, of Darabghird in the Yezd Province, he always preferred to style himself El-Hichmakani, a facetious "lackab" or surname, meaning "Of ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... Government is very good to us. We get letters often." It is a sepoy in the 107th who speaks. "My brother writes even thus," and he reads with tears in his eyes: "'We miss you terribly, but such is the will of God. I have been daily to Haji Baba Ziarat' (it is a famous shrine in India), 'and day and night I pray for you, and am very distressed. I am writing to tell you to have no anxiety about us at home, but do your duty cheerfully and say your prayers. ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan |
