The Thirty-Nine Steps on A Thousand and One Nights: “My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian Nights to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days.”
Greenmantle on A Thousand and One Nights: “a picture of an old man in a turban coming out of a bottle in a cloud of smoke, which I remembered from a child's edition of the _Arabian Nights_.”