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Walter even took the trouble to shout up and down the stair for Sigbert, and to demand hotly of the weary, dejected men-at-arms where Sigbert was; but no one could tell. "Gone over to the enemy, the old traitor," said Walter, again dropping on the divan. "Never! Sigbert is no traitor," returned his sister. "He is an English churl, and all churls are traitors," responded Walter.
Ali hastened to summon what he called a Grand Divan, composed of the chiefs of both sects, Mussulmans and Christians.
As may be supposed, submission to such an order was about the last thing Ali contemplated. As he failed to appear, the Divan caused the Grand Mufti to launch the thunder of excommunication against him.
Watching him, it seemed to me that the affection existing between him and the man on the divan must have been a beautiful thing. He turned away from his brother at last, and Walters sought to give him some idea of what had happened. "You will pardon me, gentlemen," said the lieutenant. "This has been a terrible shock! I didn't dream, of course I just dropped in for a word with with him. And now "
This colonnade stood about four feet from the wall, and the interval between was occupied by a divan, fashioned of dexterously woven cane, extending around the room; and as the prisoners could seat themselves here, or lie at full length, they were subjected to no greater hardship than was consistent with their safe custody.
Can it be a likeness of that woman who is sitting before that copper urn, with a silver vase in her hand, from which she is pouring hot liquor into cups? Was SHE ever a fairy? She is as fat as a hippopotamus now. He is sitting on a divan by the fire. He has a paper on his knees. Read the name of the paper. It is the Superfine Review. It inclines to think that Mr.
The successor of Constantine, in a plebeian habit, was led into the Turkish divan, and commanded to kiss the ground before the lord of Asia. He reluctantly obeyed; and Alp Arslan, starting from his throne, is said to have planted his foot on the neck of the Roman emperor.
The poor children, fanning themselves, on an ice divan, would certainly have frozen if the Snow Man's wife had not suggested that they all have a little game of "puss-in-the-corner," to while away the time before dinner. That warmed them up a little, for they had to run very fast indeed to play with the Snow Children who seemed to fairly blow in the north wind from corner to corner.
Tatiana Markovna asked the visitor to sit on the divan, and seated herself stiffly beside her. "What is the weather like?" she asked. "Had you a windy crossing over the Volga?" "There was no wind." "Did you come by the ferry?" "In the boat. The caleche was brought over on the ferry." "Yakob, Egorovna, Petrushka? Where are you? Why don't you come when you are called?
She received them, sitting on her divan, clothed in a purple robe, and shrouded in a long veil. This she took off when Tancred came towards her, and he marvelled at the strangeness of her beauty. There was nothing oriental about her. She was a Greek girl of the ancient type, with violet eyes, fair cheeks, and dark hair. "Prince," she said, "we are a people who wish neither to see nor to be seen.
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