jinnee
Example Sentences
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His enemies, who abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were signs that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to stuff Jesse Jones, the jinnee he created, back in a jar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last of the maidens thus offered to the demon was rescued by a pious Berber, who by reciting the Koran succeeded in driving the jinnee back into the sea.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
Still, minds trained to believe in the magic carpet of Sulayman and quite virgin of any knowledge of machinery, could easily account for the airship's flying by means of jinnee concealed in its entrails.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
Brown moved the lamp, and its beams fell on a rifleman who stood close beside him at attention—like a jinnee formed suddenly from empty blackness.
From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy
