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Sentences starting with persian

Persian milestones are still to be found among the ruins of the old king's road, which led from Nineveh to Ecbatana. [10]
Persian Poetry, 224. [6]

Sentences ending with persian

Thou canst drink well, thou golden-haired Persian! [10]
I could hear the clatter of arms among the bushes, but the Athenian was allowed to depart unmolested, the soldiers, without doubt, believing him to be a Persian. [10]
In this first room lay the leader of the caravan; in that beyond was the crazy Persian. [10]
Strangers are quite right in saying that there are no cupbearers like the Persian. [10]
And how charmingly it sounded when she said 'good-night' to us in Persian. [10]
He loves thee ardently now, but remember, he is young and handsome, courted by every one, and a Persian. [10]

Short sentences using persian

Sakkia----The Persian water-wheel. [11]
Narghileh----A Persian pipe. [11]

Sentences containing persian two or more times

He can speak Persian too, perfectly; and what is more, he knows and practises all the Persian virtues. [10]
Phanes, whom in his present dress, none could imagine to be other than a Persian, mounted one of the horses still waiting before the gate; the stranger called after him, 'Farewell Gyges, farewell beloved Persian, a pleasant journey to thee, Gyges! [10]

More example sentences with the word persian in them

Among other presents Zopyrus received a gold hand-mill weighing six talents, the most honorable and distinguished gift a Persian monarch could bestow upon a subject. [10]
And now I would ask you to alight, and let me send your maidens into the house; for here you must put on Persian apparel, to appear well-pleasing in the eyes of Cambyses. [10]
Scornful and mocking words were being uttered by the king; Neithotep looked exultant.--In these visions Nebenchari was so lost, that one of the Persian doctors was obliged to point out to him that his patient was awake. [10]
My Persian servant, who had served as overlooker in Amasis' stables and had seen Bartja there, assisted by the old Egyptian who accompanied me, was very helpful, and asserted untiringly that the wounded man could be no other than your brother. [10]
An infamous Persian, who had lived many years in Egypt, and travelled here with us, had given them a list of all the things and actions, which we consider unclean. [10]
I don't know whether we spoke Persian or Syrian, but we said the most charming things to one another. [10]
He must decide whether I dare allow thee to await the return of the Persian prince, or whether I must entreat thee to forget him and become the domestic wife of a Greek husband. [10]
Yet his words were accompanied by such a charm of action and expression, that the king could understand them, notwithstanding the defective Persian in which they were clothed, better than the allegorical speeches of his own subjects. [10]
Well, as I was saying, it was just at the time when the great Persian embassy came over to Sais to fetch Nitetis, and made everybody stare at them as if they were monsters or prodigies, that this shameful thing happened. [10]
The Persian foot was not much more numerous than the Egyptian, but they had six times the number of horse-soldiers. [10]
But their dialogue was interrupted: the first misfortune of this luckless night had brought its attendant: the body of Rustem, the splendid and radiantly youthful Rustem, the faithful Persian leader of the caravan, was borne into the hall, senseless. [10]
The ingenious Greek was honored by receiving the king's hand to kiss, his expenses were reimbursed by a magnificent present, and he was urged to take a daughter of some noble Persian family in marriage. [10]
His local knowledge was especially valuable on account of the marshes which intersected the Pelusian plain, and might, unless carefully avoided, have proved fatal to the Persian enterprise. [10]
The Egyptian army was by no means contemptible, even when compared with the immense Persian hosts. [10]
If, however, you walk two or three times up and down the room you will surpass all the Persian ladies even in your walk! [10]
He lowered his voice and went on: "I did not ask whether you wished for peace or war--I know that every Persian prefers the labor of war to an inglorious idleness--but I wished to know what answer you would give the Massagetan warriors. [10]
The count had valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house. [2]
The prayer offered up by the Magian was a model for those of the Persian people. [10]
It is used to awaken the young sons of the Persian nobles, who are brought up at the gate of the king. [10]
He liked most things continental; he found his social pleasures in that polite Bohemia which indulges in midnight suppers and permits ladies to smoke cigarettes after dinner, which dines at rich men's tables and is hob-a- nob with Russian Counts, Persian Ministers, and German Barons. [11]
The Persian soldiers, their position being unfortified, were in order of battle, ready to meet any unexpected attack. [10]
The god of Thebes, our Ammon, shall be transformed into Ormuzd,--Isis or Hathor, into Anahita, and those among our gods for whom I can find no likeness in the Persian religion, I shall designate by the name of 'the Deity. [10]
In many of the shorter poems and fragments published since "May-Day," as well as in the "Quatrains" and others of the later poems in that volume, it is sometimes hard to tell what is from the Persian from what is original. [6]
The house of the Sheikh, and its garden, where were a pool and a fountain, were supplied from the great Persian wheel at the waterside. [11]
The Vekeel, like the Persian lovers, did not allow the heat of the day to interfere with his plans. [10]
She had seen the moisture sparkling in his eyes; but his tears were not for the Persian, but for the mysterious something--he himself knew not what to call it--that he had forfeited in this last hour, and of which the loss gave him unspeakable pain. [10]
At the palace-gates the latter dispersed to their several abodes, in order to exchange the simple Persian leather hunting-costume for the splendid Median court-dress. [10]
The latter is the hope and pride of the entire Persian nation, high and low; the darling of the people; generous, and noble, handsome, virtuous, and worthy of their love. [10]
One adjutant, nearest the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. [2]
This was Boges, the chief of the eunuchs, an important official at the Persian court. [10]
Oropastes taught me, that whenever a Persian dies dogs' are brought in, that the Divs may enter into them. [10]
In his large study, the walls of which were hung to the ceiling with Persian rugs, bearskins, and weapons, sat Dolokhov in a traveling cloak and high boots, at an open desk on which lay abacus and some bundles of paper money. [2]
The fair Persian stood facing Alexander; they were clasping each other's hands in pledge of marriage, and a winged Hymen fluttered above their heads with his flaming torch. [10]
The aged king soon appeared, and was welcomed as the old and tried friend of the Persian royal family. [10]
The father and son had already heard of this marvellous piece of work, which had formed part of the plunder taken by the Arab conquerors of the Persian Empire at the sack of the "White Tower"--the royal palace of Madam, the capital of the Sassanidze. [10]
Paula, who was so wonderfully quick in coming to the rescue of the Persian, is of course not to be thought of. [10]
The friendship already shown by Amasis, and the fear in which he evidently stood of the Persian power, were the thoughts which had power to calm Croesus, who soon left, in order to pass the night at the house of Theopompus, the Milesian merchant. [10]
The idea that she, the humble artist's daughter, could harbor the soul of a Persian princess, amused her; and when the lion lifted his head and lashed the floor with his tail at her approach, she felt that she had won his approbation. [10]
Cambyses not only scorned to revenge the imposture which had been practised on him on a woman, but, as a Persian, had far too much respect for a mother, and especially for the mother of a king, to injure Ladice in any way. [10]
I need only remind you, that they be between Egypt and your Asiatic brethren who are already groaning under the Persian yoke. [10]
On one occasion Psamtik met him thus with his master, and asked the latter what could have induced him to initiate a Persian in the Egyptian mysteries. [10]
Essay on Persian Poetry.--Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival--Letter from Emerson to a Lady.--Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau.--Address on the Emancipation Proclamation.--Publication of "The Conduct of Life. [6]
Essay on Persian Poetry.--Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival.--Letter from Emerson to a Lady.--Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau.--Address on the Emancipation Proclamation.--Publication of "The Conduct of Life. [6]
They talked in Persian, for she had not forgotten the language which her mother had spoken till her dying day. [10]
But now the Persian ranks began to move. [10]
The Essay on Persian Poetry, published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1858, should be studied by all readers who are curious in tracing the influence of Oriental poetry on Emerson's verse. [6]
Firdusi, the great Persian epic poet, compares human beauty to the growth of the cypress, as the highest praise he can give. [10]
But Cyrus the Persian (Jehovah bless his posterity! [10]
Leave us in peace and freedom and we are ready to give every year five thousand swift horses of the desert, besides the yearly tribute of gold; we will also come to the help of the Persian nation when threatened by any serious danger. [10]
Rhodopis, by her own peculiar attractions, soon won the heart of Kassandane, and the queen knew no better way of proving this than by offering, in Persian fashion, to grant her some wish. [10]
They could then, on their return, maintain to their Mentor Croesus, that they had been pursuing fieldsports, the favorite occupation of the Persian nobility. [10]
Phanes then put on the stranger's trousers, coat and girdle; on his own curls he placed the pointed Persian cap. [10]
The Persian part of this inscription can still be deciphered with certainty, and contains an account of the events related in the last few chapters, very nearly agreeing with our own and that of Herodotus. [10]
Pictures are given of the Persian water pipes, and descriptions of the mode of preparing it for use. [4]
The principal attack of the Egyptians had been directed against the centre of the Persian army, where Cambyses commanded in person; and with such effect that the guards had already begun to give way. [10]
Even the kings of Persia did not consider horticulture beneath their notice, and the highest among the Achaemenidae took an especial pleasure in laying out parks, called in Persian Paradises. [10]
Araspes, a Persian of high rank, who had been one of Cyrus's friends, had joined them, and did full justice to the prince's excellent wine. [10]
At the foot of her bed stood six Persian doctors, murmuring incantations under the orders of Nebenchari, whose superior science they acknowledged, and who was seated at the bed's head. [10]
Should the family of Cyrus become extinct, the descendants of Hystaspes would have a well-grounded right to the Persian throne. [10]
After the death of Cambyses, Babylon revolted from the Persian empire. [10]
The Persian party now met with a hindrance, a large crowd having assembled before one of the handsomest houses in the street leading to the temple of Neith. [10]
The Egypto- Persian memorial fragments, bearing inscriptions in the hieroglyphic and cuneiform characters are very interesting. [10]
A fine, handsome man of about fifty, dressed as a Persian courtier, and another, much older, in long white robes, occupied the first carriage. [10]
A Persian gets low-spirited without the joys of war. [10]
Hiding her old limbs under rich Persian robes, she moved about exulting in the new and delightful right to command, and kept her inferiors in perpetual motion. [10]
He sendeth thee likewise by me, even by me the lowest of his servants, Persian raiment, that thou, as befitteth the consort of the mightiest of all rulers, mayest approach the gates of the Achaemenidae in Median garments. [10]
The Persian war lasted about 500 years. [5]
Refuse to obey it, and ye shall suffer the corresponding evils; yea, your end, and that of every Persian shall be even as mine. [10]
McDonald says it is a stater, about the same as a Persian daric-something like the value of a sovereign. [4]
Just because he is a Persian and holds truth to be the highest virtue, I may venture to hope that he will remember his oath, and, notwithstanding those evil customs of the Asiatics, will take and keep me as his only wife. [10]
A feeling of intense joy stole into her heart, and before Croesus could answer, she began softly in broken Persian and blushing deeply: "Blessed be the gods, who have caused me to find favor in thine eyes. [10]
In the front, in the very center, leaning back against the orchestra rail, stood Dolokhov in a Persian dress, his curly hair brushed up into a huge shock. [2]
While the man in the Persian dress was feeling in his sleeve for the passport, the whip-bearer turned to some comrades who had just come up, and pointed out the scanty retinue of the travellers, saying: "Did you ever see such a queer cavalcade? [10]
But Dolokhov, who in Moscow had worn a Persian costume, had now the appearance of a most correct officer of the Guards. [2]
I am not ignorant of the speech of my lord, for the noble Croesus has instructed me in the Persian language during our long journey. [10]
Intaphernes, Aspathines, Gobryas, Hydarnes, the general Megabyzus, father of Zopyrus, the envoy Prexaspes, the noble Croesus, and the old warrior Araspes; in short, the flower of the ancient Persian aristocracy, were now at the court of Cambyses. [10]
He caused the history of his deeds to be cut, (in the cuneiform character and in the Persian, Median and Assyrian languages), on the polished side of the rock of Bisitun or Behistan, not far from the spot where he saved Atossa's life. [10]
A Persian raised his sword to cleave my skull--in an instant my poor dumb son had thrown himself between his father and the murderer, and for the first time after long years of silence, I heard him speak. [10]
This was why he could live without his wedded wife and her gold and her brocade, and the silk and the Persian rugs, and the grand piano and the carriages and the high silk hat from Piccadilly. [11]
The proud Persian had taken no rest. [10]
Seeing, however, a friendly and familiar smile on the face of the other, he quickened his steps, and, holding out his hand with a heartiness for which none of his Persian acquaintances would have given him credit, exclaimed in Egyptian: "Can I believe my eyes? [10]
This we admit, freely and honestly as is the manner of the Massagetae, declaring however at the same time, that we are determined to govern ourselves as of yore, and will never receive laws or ordinances from a Persian satrap. [10]
A Persian generally fights better if he knows that, beside his most precious treasures, he has a beautiful woman in his tent to defend. [10]
But she's dead--her face was under that old Persian shawl--and I'm going to try it on. [11]
An old man, dressed as a Persian servant, rode by the side of the cart. [10]
The Persian divinities disdained sacrifices in the light of food, requiring only the souls of the slaughtered animals, and many a poor man, especially among the priests, subsisted on the flesh of the abundant royal sacrifices. [10]
Four days later, Darius, the son of Hystaspes, was chosen as king by the heads of the Achaemenidae, in consideration of his high birth and noble character, and received by the Persian nation with enthusiasm. [10]
The bier was covered by a faded Persian shawl, and it was carried by the poorest of the fellaheen, though in the crowd following were many richly attired merchants of the bazaars. [11]
The man had carried out her instructions by condemning the fair Persian, according to an ancient custom, to have her ears cut off. [10]
A Persian physician came up and rubbed her forehead with a sweet-scented oil, and Nebenchari approached, muttering spells, felt her pulse, shook his head, and administered a potion from his portable medicine-chest. [10]
He was followed by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, a young Persian of the blood royal, similar in person to Bartja, and scarcely less gorgeously apparelled than he. [10]
When, presently, they began talking again of the past she asked him quite frankly, but in a low voice and without looking up, what had become of the emerald he had taken from the Persian hanging. [10]
A full month before the time of the inundation, the Persian and Egyptian armies were standing face to face near Pelusium on the north-east coast of the Delta. [10]
Canst thou look at me as happily and as innocently, as thou couldst before this Persian came to us? [10]
One she recognized as the eunuch Boges; he was talking to a beautiful Persian woman carelessly dressed. [10]
The Greek's bearing, as he approached, under the king's penetrating glance, was calm and noble; he fell on his face, and, according to the Persian custom, kissed the ground. [10]
My Persian colleagues are already making signs to me, to enjoin silence on you. [10]
You are not angry with me for having prayed to the Persian gods? [10]
It was Bartja, and Sappho was so lost in wonder at his beauty, and the Persian dress, to her so strange, that she remained motionless in her hiding-place, her eyes fixed on his face. [10]
Rhodopis received Bartja, and communicated to him all she knew of his friend's fate, after which the young Persian departed for Sais. [10]

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