Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty...
Scarcely had I finished when, looking out to sea, I saw the vessel heading for the island, and, feeling that it would be useless for me to protest my ...
When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do...
We all remained where we were quaking with anxiety, when the ground opened in front of us and a black and white cat leapt out, its hair standing on en...
"A monkey!" exclaimed the Sultan."Yes, sire," answered the officials. "They were written by a monkey in our presence."&q...
"Yes, sire," answered the dervish; "if I am not mistaken, it is the illness of the princess which has procured(获得) me this honour."...
"Alas," answered the princess, "I am too weak even to hold the sabre. And supposing that I had the strength, why should I put an innoce...
I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious gr...
Persecuted by ill-fortune, and stricken with grief, there seemed to be only one means of safety left to me. I shaved my beard and my eyebrows, and put...
As I had promised I prepared to do as I was told, and giving my hand to the lady, I escorted her, by the light of the moon, to the place of which the ...