With women like Cressida, Gertrude, and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, the jinnee is out of the bottle. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
At last, through the aid of a friendly jinnee, the hero recovers her, captures the ape, and encloses it forever in a bottle of brass. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
If Schiller and Goethe dare once to come out of their exile, then Nestroy's plum-pudding jinnee steps in their path, and they of course modestly give way to him. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
When the great jinnee of music had once more swept out of the hall, the. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies (Second Series)] Reference
He glanced from Alicia to me with the smiling malice of a jinnee delighted to mystify mortals. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
Every month they drew lots, and he upon whom the lot fell gave up his daughter to the jinnee of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Madame said she liked to have him around, for he was more like some unobtrusive jinnee than a mere mortal. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
In the story of Seyf el-Mulook in the Arabian Nights the jinnee tells the captive daughter of the King of India. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion] Reference
Perhaps he has provoked a jinnee in that young man which will one day rise up and envelop him in a cloud of political suffocation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Warwick] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
In the story of Seyf el-Mulook in the Arabian Nights the jinnee tells the captive daughter of the King of India, When I was born, the astrologers declared that the destruction of my soul would be effected by the hand of one of the sons of the human kings. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales] Reference
Think of having a jinnee fetch you your coffee, and of stirring it with an apostle spoon. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
In the story of Seyf el-Mulook in the Arabian Nights the jinnee tells the captive daughter of the King of India, "When I was born, the astrologers declared that the destruction of my soul would be effected by the hand of one of the sons of the human kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
Lange gleefully corks the evil jinnee of. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
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