Karah Kaplan; or, The Koordish chief |
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Acma Alhamdellillah Allah Verdee Khan anderoon answered appearance arms attendants Barakillah bastinado beard Begler Beg behold blood camp caravanserai cause CHAPTER chieftain command companions countenance cried curse daughter defiled discovered Eliaut entered exclaimed eyes fate Fath Fath Ali Shah father favour fear feelings ferashes Feridoon fursuks gazed Georgian girl give Hamadan hand head heard heart horse Hussein Inshallah Iran Iranees Ismael journey kaliaun kaneezes Karah Kaplan Katrina Kerbelai Hassan Khanum Khatoon Khorasan King Koord KOORDISH CHIEF Koran lips Lootee Mahomed Reza maiden manner Mashallah master Meerza Sadek Mehtee Khan Moorad Beg Murwari Nargis never numbers observed once passed perceived Persian possessed present Prince proceeded remained replied returned royal Sahib scarcely seized sentinel Shah Shiraz slave speak spot steeds Sultaneah Sumbartoff Teheran tent tion tribe truth turned uttered voice Wahi wife woman words wretch yonder youth Zaira Zofea Zoraya
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Seite 199 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Seite 242 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Seite 149 - Then each at once his falchion drew. Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun and stream and plain As what they ne'er might see again ; Then foot and point and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
Seite 226 - The last — the sole — the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Seite 32 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Seite 137 - Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame...
Seite 132 - A vein had burst, and her sweet lips' pure dyes Were dabbled with the deep blood which ran o'er, And her head drooped as when the lily lies O'ercharged with rain: her summoned handmaids bore Their lady to her couch with gushing eyes ; Of herbs and cordials they produced their store : But she defied all means they could employ, Like one life could not hold nor death destroy.
Seite 137 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim...
Seite 99 - Can join these scattered gems in one : For they're a wreath of pearls, and I The silken cord on which they lie. Tis mine their inmost souls to see . Unlocked is every heart to me ; To me they cling, on me they rest, And I've a place in every breast : For they're a wreath of pearls, and 1 The silken cord on which they lie.
Seite 272 - On the desert .... in the grey of the morning, we gave chase to two wild asses, which had so much the speed of our horses, that when they had got at some distance, they stood still and looked behind at us, snorting with their noses in the air, as if in contempt of our endeavours to catch them. The Persians sometimes succeed in killing them, but not without great dexterity and knowledge of their haunts.