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Below are six doctors, consulting their books; they are not well characterized, being merely so many ideal heads in a mannered style; but I believe they represent the four Latin Fathers, with St. John Damascene and St. Ildefonso, who were especial defenders of the doctrine. Gal.
The man who repeated the Emir's words a tall spare Tartar was he who carried out the sentences of Feofar-Khan against offenders. He had taken his place behind Michael, holding in his hand a broad curved saber, one of those Damascene blades which are forged by the celebrated armorers of Karschi or Hissar. Behind him guards were carrying a tripod supporting a chafing-dish filled with live coals.
"Well, belle mere," he said, turning to the countess, "and if yon faithful followers do witness with what glee a fair bride inspires a returning bridegroom, is there cause for shame in this cheek of damascene?" "Is the king still with my father?" asked Isabel, hastily, and interrupting the countess's reply. "Surely, yes; and hard at hand.
The first olive-trees were planted on Mount Olympus, and from thence were spread through the rest of Europe; the fig is from Lydia; the plums, your favourite fruit, with the exception of some natural sorts that are natives of our forests, are from Syria, and the town of Damascus has given its name to one sort, the Damascene, or Damson.
"The ground, rich black earth... was covered with vivid, leek-like, verdigris green. The little villages, with their leafy huts, were surrounded and protected by hedge milk bush, the colour of emeralds. A light veil, as of Damascene silver, hung over each settlement, and the magnificent trees were tipped by peacocks screaming their good-night to the son."
But little over a century after its foundation the fame of its methods of treatment led to the establishment of a larger and still more luxurious institution the Mansuri hospital at Cairo. It seems that a certain sultan, having been cured by medicines from the Damascene hospital, determined to build one of his own at Cairo which should eclipse even the great Damascene institution.
He had his music ready, and the sheets were carefully and legibly written out from the precious old Greek scores which he loved so dearly and prized so highly. They began with the canon for Easter-day of St. John Damascene, who, according to Despard, was the best of the Eastern hymnists. Mrs. Thornton's voice was rich and full.
"A few days after I had disposed of the contents of my chest, a Damascene merchant, who had bought two suits of apparel from me, told me, with a very melancholy face, that both the female slaves who had put on these clothes were sick.
And with what flaming thirst for life, not to be satiated by aught; with what longing for the momentary transient like unto a dream joy and beauty of being; with what horror before the eternal silence of death, sounded the ancient refrain of John Damascene! Then a brief requiem at the grave, the dull thud of the earth against the lid of the coffin ... a small fresh hillock ...
"The Asia has made the signal for `a strange sail suspicious," said the second-mate to Captain Drawlock, putting his head into the cabin. "Very well, Mr Jones, keep a glass upon the commodore." "Mrs Ferguson, will you take some of this tart? Damascene, I believe," said the first-mate. "If you please, Mr Mathews. Did not Mr Jones say suspicious? What does that imply?"
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