human
has imported those extraordinary grand-junction specimens, which, with their countryfolk, the Yezidis, Dr. Layard has particularly described in his book on Nineveh. When speaking of the Yezidis, he has observed,
gpt
The name of the evil spirit is, however, never mentioned; and any allusion to it by others so vexes and irritates them, that it is said they have put to death persons who have wantonly outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread of offending the evil principle carried, that they carefully avoid every expression which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic word for 'accursed.' Thus, in speaking of a river, they will not say _Shat_, because it is too nearly connected with the first syllable in _Sheitan_, the devil; but substitute _Nahr_. Nor, for the same reason, will they utter the word _Keitan_, thread or fringe. _Naal_, a horse-shoe, and _naal-band_, a farrier, are forbidden words; because they approach to _laan_, a curse, and _m[=a]loun_, accursed.
human
Faith! the great Dan himself couldn't repale _that_ union, at all, at all, _after_ 'twas once put together.