| Text | Length |
| Ishmael's people | 20 |
| Many Middle Easterners | 22 |
| Fast horses | 11 |
| Riyadh residents | 16 |
| Mideasterners | 13 |
| Graceful horses | 15 |
| Burnoose wearers | 16 |
| Some Middle Easterners | 22 |
| Prized mounts | 13 |
| Lawrence's men | 18 |
| Classy horses | 13 |
| Basra natives | 13 |
| Syrians, e.g. | 13 |
| Swift, graceful horses | 22 |
| Some show horses | 16 |
| Some OPEC ministers | 19 |
| Some Mideasterners | 18 |
| Saudis and Iraqis | 17 |
| Most North Africans | 19 |
| Most Egyptians | 14 |
| Most Al Jazeera viewers | 23 |
| Men of Medina | 13 |
| Certain League members | 22 |
| Typical Kuwaitis | 16 |
| Swift horses | 12 |
| Speedy steeds | 13 |
| Some Semites | 12 |
| Some follow Islam | 17 |
| Sheik's flock | 17 |
| Saudi natives | 13 |
| Saracens | 8 |
| Persian Gulf figures | 20 |
| Palestinians | 12 |
| Omanis, e.g. | 12 |
| Most Yemenis | 12 |
| Most Lebanese | 13 |
| Most Bahrain inhabitants | 24 |
| Men from Mecca | 14 |
| Mecca people | 12 |
| Many Semites | 12 |
| Many Mideasterners | 18 |
| Jordanians | 10 |
| Jordanian majority | 18 |
| Emirate emigrés | 18 |
| Damascus denizens | 17 |
| Certain Middle Easterners | 25 |
| Casbah residents | 16 |
| Bahrain natives | 15 |
| Al Jazeera viewing audience, mostly | 35 |
| Yemenis, e.g. | 13 |
| Yamani and Fahd | 15 |
| Were "at the foot of the bed" to Roger Waters | 55 |
| Wahabis, e.g. | 13 |
| Third-world force | 17 |
| They're rolling in petrol | 29 |
| They had knives on Roger Waters' "Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" | 78 |
| Their soil has oil | 18 |
| Sultan's subjects | 21 |
| Speedy horses | 13 |
| Sons of Ishmael | 15 |
| Some tent dwellers | 18 |
| Some street children | 20 |
| Some riding horses | 18 |
| Some residents of northern Africa | 33 |
| Some Qatar residents | 20 |
| Some Mosul residents | 20 |
| Some members of OPEC | 20 |
| Some Mecca visitors | 19 |
| Some desert dwellers | 20 |
| Smart, swift equines | 20 |
| Sinbad et al. | 13 |
| Side in a 1948 war | 18 |
| Sheiks' subjects | 20 |
| Sheiks, e.g. | 12 |
| Sheiks and others | 17 |
| Sheik's subjects | 20 |
| Scheherazade's people | 25 |
| Scheherazade and Ali Baba | 25 |
| Saudis, usually | 15 |
| Saudis, say | 11 |
| Saudis | 6 |
| Saudi nationals | 15 |
| Saracens, e.g. | 14 |
| Rub' al Khali residents | 27 |
| Roger Waters "4:37 AM (___ With Knives and West German Skies)" | 72 |
| Relatives of Moors | 18 |
| Qaddafi and Sadat | 17 |
| Popular show horses | 19 |
| Popular saddle horses | 21 |
| Peter Mansfield book, with "The" | 42 |
| People in burnooses | 19 |
| One side in a 1967 war | 22 |
| Omani men | 9 |
| Oman men | 8 |
| Olive browns | 12 |
| Oil suppliers | 13 |
| Nejd natives | 12 |
| Nejd desert dwellers | 20 |
| Natives of Al-Madinah | 21 |
| Mubarak and Hussein | 19 |
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