perisan

Updated: May 9, 2025

The whole night long, he would lift his splendor-blasted orbs to the moon and stars; he turned his face eastward, at sunrise, as duly as a Perisan idolater; he made a pilgrimage to Rome, to witness the magnificent illumination of St.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - From Twice Told Tales

To Don Hugo de Moncada, the Viceroy of Sicily, to Don Perisan de Ribera at Bougie, to the Marquis de Comares at Oran, orders were sent to prepare their forces for an attack on Algiers. There was no lack of good-will on the part of the Christian princes, nobles, and governors.

E. Hamilton Currey - Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean