"Fellah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at last, "we've gone and done it, young fellah my lad." (This curious phrase he pronounced as if it were all one word—"young-fellah-me-lad.") "Yes, we've taken a jump, you an' me. I suppose, now, when you went into that room there was no such notion ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle
... I thought you'd answer "No." But still a fellah 's got to awsk, you see. And then there was the chance you might outgrow That way you had ...
— When hearts are trumps • Thomas Winthrop Hall
... solemn occasions, they have rude equestrian games, in which they display themselves and their animals. The Gudabirsi, and indeed most of the Somal, sit loosely upon their horses. Their saddle is a demi-pique, a high-backed wooden frame, like the Egyptian fellah's: two light splinters leave a clear space for the spine, and the tree is tightly bound with wet thongs: a sheepskin shabracque is loosely spread over it, and the dwarf iron stirrup admits only the big ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
... says the president, breakin' his neck tryin' to make himself a good fellah. "You want a day ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer
... strange harmonies of colour. The comparison between the mountains of Egypt and a race-course might seem most absurd, if one did not remember that the bookmaker had his own standards, and that he thought he was paying unusual honour to the land of the Fellah. Clovelly plaintively said, as he drank his hock and seltzer, that the bookmaker was hourly saving his life; and Colonel Ryder admitted at last that Kentucky never produced ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... wounded. "You can't tell what'll happen if you don't take care of yourself. I heard of a fellah once..." ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... length, however, we came to the bed of a Wady called Hameka, which we ascended for a short distance, and in half an hour after crossing it reached Kereye, about ten at night; here we found a comfortable Fellah's house, and ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt
... fill up a gap near one of the batteries. The "Gippies" looked without flinching straight into the eyes of the dervishes, and fired volleys that would have done credit to a British regiment. The hulking, physically strong "Fellah" had at last taken the measure of his enemy, and meant to prove himself the better man of the two. And he did—delighted with himself and his comrades, calling to them, chiding the dervishes, and stepping out of the ranks to meet the onrush of those of the enemy who came near, to stop ...
— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh |
