22 examples of burnous in sentences

We have all seen photographs of the imperial figure, draped in an amazing burnous of his own designing (above which the Prussian Pickelhaube rises supreme), as he moved from point to point in this portentous visit: we may also have seen Caran d'Ache's celebrated cartoon (a subject of diplomatic correspondence) representing this same imperial figure, in its Oriental toggery, riding into Jerusalem on an ass.

OTHER WORKS IN ENGLISH BY HECTOR FRANCE MANSOUR'S CHASTISEMENT; THE ATTACK ON THE BROTHELS; MUSK, HASHISH AND BLOOD; THE DAUGHTER OF THE CHRIST; UNDER THE BURNOUS.

They were wearing blue turbans above the flowing white "haik" which fell back upon their shoulders, and the white burnous which reached to their ankles.

An Arab chief in his white burnous and flowing robes padded in soft shoes between the little crowds of cocottes who smiled into his grave face with its dark liquid eyes and pointed beard, like Othello the Moor.

A confused chorus of cries and jeers drifted down from the sand-hills; and all at once a tall, gaunt figure in a brown and white striped burnous, with the hood drawn up over the head, leaped to sight.

The Arabs, warned by the death of the gaunt fellow in the burnous, had doffed their headgear.

What will not the orthodox tribes give for this arch-Shiah, this despoiler of the sacred Haram at Mecca?" He began feeling in the bosom of the old man, opening the cloaklike burnous and exploring the neck and chest with eager fingers.

The Master bent, assured himself the old Sheik's mouth and nose were still covered by the hood of the burnous, and cried: "Forward!"

Nothing now remained to tell them of the enemy, save here or there the flutter of a bit of burnous or cherchia (head-dress), that fluttered from the white sand now all ribbed in lovely scollops like the waves of a moveless sea.

No information could be got from him; but Rrisa's eyes brightened with unholy joy at sight of the old man ceremonially tearing his burnous and sifting sand on his gray head.

His cherchia of jade-green silk was bound with a ukal, or fillet of camel's-hair; his burnous, also silk, showed tenderest shades of lavender and rose.

Bara Miyan likewise felt in a recess of his many-hued burnous.

Without ado, the lean, wild man of the Sahara was led, in wrinkled burnous, with disheveled hair, wild eyes, and an expression of helpless despair, to where the Master stood.

They had neither tarboosh nor burnous, but simply red fezes; tight sleeveless shirts of striped stuff, and trousers of Turkish cut.

" Old Bara Miyan bent shaggy white brows at the Master, and peered out intently from under the hood of his burnous.

The Olema, his face suddenly distorted with a passion of hate, snatched a pistol from beneath his burnous.

The Olema's gaudy burnous crimsoned swiftly.

His big-shouldered, now emaciated figure in its dirty-white burnous was nowhere visible.

His teeth gleamed through his stubble of beard, and his eyes glinted redly under the hood of his ragged burnous as he cried: "Will you drink?"

As she cradled his head up into her lap and drew the shelter of her burnous over it, she became rational again.

Those white blotchesone would say they were houses!" Indifferent, yet interested, too, in the appearance of reality, the man remained sitting on the dune, squinting from under his torn burnous.

Her travelling dress was of scarlet cloth trimmed with gold, and, when on horseback, she wore over the whole a white-hooded and tasselled burnous.

22 examples of  burnous  in sentences