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title: Opening, part 10 — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · full text with trees · page 2
description: Opening, part 10, «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Then he stooped and gathered a handful of earth, and murmured some words over it, after which he threw the earth in my face, saying as he did so
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# Opening, part 10 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/101/) — But having let this chance slip I was forced to resort to fire, and in spite of all his experience I showed the genius that I knew more than he did.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/102/) — He is dead and in ashes, but my own death is approaching fast." "
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/103/) — My daughter," cried the Sultan, "how sad is my condition!
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/104/) — I am only surprised I am alive at all!
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/105/) — The eunuch is consumed by the flames, and the prince whom you have delivered has lost the sight of one eye."
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/10/106/) — He could say no more, for sobs choked his voice, and we all wept together.

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