If you were an angry young Moslem, which scenario would more strongly move you to take up arms and risk your life, rather than safely grumble - the one in which your side is humiliating the giaours or the one in which it is being humiliated? ❋ Unknown (2007)
The American giaours outnumber the mufsidun heavily, are infinitely better armed and have inflicted vastly heavier casualties than they have suffered. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If that is so, and if dominant opinion in the West is determined never to repeat that injustice, what behavior will ever provoke the faint-hearted giaours? ❋ Unknown (2006)
One reason why Alroy has fallen through the cracks of literary history is that like Disraeli himself, the novel is neither Jewish, in the sense that its themes and characterizations conform to a Jewish ethos, nor Christian, the few giaours in the book being minor characters who are vilified by the Muslims populating twelfth-century Persia. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Persia, India, and Africa, call the Christians idolaters and giaours, because they imagine that Christians worship images. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Turks at this day count no better of us than of dogs, so they commonly call us giaours, infidels, miscreants, make that their main quarrel and cause of Christian persecution. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Zerogh hour like pou owl giaours as we are would we salve aught of moments for our aysore today. ❋ Unknown (2006)
After a few moments I looked up again, and there was my Karagyoz flying along, his tail waving — free as the wind; and the giaours, on their jaded horses, were trailing along far behind, one after another, across the steppe. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I could actually hear the cries of the giaours behind me, and in front of me there was a dense forest. ❋ Unknown (2003)
No longer were the giaours (“infidel dogs”) forbidden to wear bright clothing or ride horses or use saddles. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)
Well burn the fathers of these _giaours_ (infidels), said the young delikhan, as he rode up to me in great joy at this intelligence; and will make up for the fatigues we have undergone, by drinking abundantly of their wine. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
The days of the corsairs and giaours, romantic robbers, and devout murderers, are over: our young ladies and our servant girls see no fascination in the pages of 'Fatherless Fanny,' ❋ Various (N/A)
Your good Moslem -- and a Moslem is good in those parts who makes a mountain of observances, regarding mole-hills of mere morals not at all -- affects to despise all giaours; but a giaour, like a gipsy, who has no obvious religion of any kind, he ranks below the pig in order of reverence. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1920)
After a few moments I looked up again, and there was my Karagyoz flying along, his tail waving -- free as the wind; and the giaours, on their jaded horses, were trailing along far behind, one after another, across the steppe. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Mesrour then delights to make the obeisances my rank deserves, but which in the presence of the giaours would excite mocking laughter. ❋ Wardon Allan Curtis (1903)
And when they did make their voices heard, it was not in favor of recognizing the giaours as their political equals. ❋ Francis Trevelyan Miller (1902)
