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Updated: June 16, 2025
I, Herod, surnamed the Great, king of Judea, conqueror of hosts, builder of cities, bare my head before you!" He removed his jewelled crown; he drew off his purple tarboosh, and bowed before the young tribune. Tenderly Vergilius replaced them on the gray head. "O king," said he, bowing low, "you do me great honor." Herod closed his eyes and muttered feebly.
Could it be the exquisite of the "Europa" and the "Trois Freres"? A man- -in a long yellow gown, with a long beard somewhat tinged with grey, with his head shaved, and wearing on it, first, a white wadded cotton nightcap; second, a red tarboosh made his appearance and welcomed me cordially. It was some time, as the Americans say, before I could "realise" the semillant J- of old times.
Despite his dimensions, he was agile and graceful in his sweeping salaams; when he spoke he emphasized every word with an appropriate sweep of the arm, and his eyebrows arched and his eyes bulged in superlative, ecstatic moments. The tassel of his tarboosh, a little red inverted flowerpot capping the summit, gyrated violently in moments of excitement. Altogether he was a mighty person.
He wore full pantaloons, a loose sort of jacket, with a shawl bound round the waist, and his head was protected by a tarboosh, with a turban wrapped round it. But though his clothes did not look European, the pistol stuck in his shawl belt was of the best, strongest, and most hard-hitting type.
"In the name of our master the Khedive!" he cried. Above the spot where the two had sunk floated the red tarboosh of the Mudir of the Fayoum. Mr. William Sowerby, lieutenant in the Mounted Infantry, was in a difficult situation, out of which he was little likely to come with credit or his life.
Turning he called sharply to the servile proprietor of the house, which for the first time was honoured by the presence of its redoubtable landlord. Salaaming until his tarboosh reached the level of his knees, the inwardly shaking Achmed stood before his two guests.
Most of the men suffer from headache; this is owing to the absurd covering, the fez, or tarboosh, which is no protection against the sun. "In the evening I took a small boat, and in forty-one minutes' poling and tugging through the narrow channel, I succeeded in reaching a long narrow lake resembling a river, about 110 yards wide.
Keenly he scanned the dunes, eager for sight of a white tarboosh, or headgear, at which to take a pot-shot. Nothing was visible but sand though here, there, a gleam of steel showed where the Arabs had nested themselves down in the natural rampart with their long-barreled rifles cuddled through carefully scooped rifts in the sand. Again the machine-gun chattered.
The party for whom this distinguished aloofness had been arranged made its entrance through an unseen door, but the voices indicated that several were at table there. The waiter who served this table apart might have testified that one was an Englishman, wearing in addition to European evening dress the native tarboosh, or fez.
He no longer wore his chauffeur's livery, but was arrayed in a white linen robe, red-sashed, and wore loose, red slippers; a tarboosh perched upon his shaven skull. Pushing the door widely open, he entered with a tray upon which was spread a substantial breakfast. "Hurryup!" he muttered, as one word; wherewith he departed again.
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