Examples from literature

• Beneath one of these domes the caliph was entertained with excellent sherbet, with sweetbreads stewed in milk of almonds, and other delicacies of which he was amazingly fond. 
• These, possibly the remnants of a quay, were all that remained of the times before the advent of the caliphs. 
• This same caliph again gathered together a host and fell upon our people. 
• We can easily conceive the alarm of the caliph. 
• When the caliph arrived near the town he waited three days and they gave him food and barley.