the ox, and the fish Nun, are the food of Mahomet’s paradise; the mere lobes of the livers of these animals will suffice for 70,000 saints. (Al Koran.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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