45 examples of dervise in sentences

" She sped right onward nineteen days in haste, Morning and noontide turning not aside; Then, as the next day dawn'd, afar she saw The aged Dervise 'neath his lonely tree.

" The Dervise laid his forehead in the dust, "Allah go with thee, since it must be so!

Yet, minding well the Dervise, still she held Her pale face forward, with eyes ever bent Towards the misty summit far away.

" They spurr'd along until the sun sank low, And by the way arose the lonely tree, Mere sat the Dervise, rheumy-eyed and old Blood-red the western skythe clouds back waved,

And one faint star pale glimmering in the height There found they still the Dervise 'neath his tree, Where he had pointed them the Eastern way, Now sleeping the last sleep with smiling lips.

A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, being arrived at the Town of Balk, went into the King's Palace by Mistake, as thinking it to be a publick Inn or Caravansary.

The Dervise told them he intended to take up his Night's Lodging in that Caravansary.

It happened that the King himself passed through the Gallery during this Debate, and smiling at the Mistake of the Dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a Palace from a Caravansary?

Sir, says the Dervise, give me leave to ask your Majesty a Question or two.

And who, says the Dervise, was the last Person that lodged here?

And who is it, says the Dervise, that lodges here at present?

And who, says the Dervise, will be here after you?

Ah Sir, said the Dervise, a House that changes its Inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual Succession of Guests, is not a Palace but a Caravansary.

We feel as we walk abroad with Mr. Darwin very much as the favoured object of the attention of the dervise must have felt when he had rubbed the ointment around his eye, and had it opened to see all the jewels, and diamonds, and emeralds, and topazes, and rubies, which were sparkling unregarded beneath the earth, hidden as yet from all eyes save those which the dervise had enlightened.

We feel as we walk abroad with Mr. Darwin very much as the favoured object of the attention of the dervise must have felt when he had rubbed the ointment around his eye, and had it opened to see all the jewels, and diamonds, and emeralds, and topazes, and rubies, which were sparkling unregarded beneath the earth, hidden as yet from all eyes save those which the dervise had enlightened.

Hearing that the Sultan Seyd [Seed] was about to attack the pirates, he assumed the disguise of a dervise and entered the palace, while his crew set fire to the Sultan's fleet.

A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, being arrived at the Town of Balk, went into the King's Palace by Mistake, as thinking it to be a publick Inn or Caravansary.

The Dervise told them he intended to take up his Night's Lodging in that Caravansary.

It happened that the King himself passed through the Gallery during this Debate, and smiling at the Mistake of the Dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a Palace from a Caravansary?

Sir, says the Dervise, give me leave to ask your Majesty a Question or two.

And who, says the Dervise, was the last Person that lodged here?

And who is it, says the Dervise, that lodges here at present?

And who, says the Dervise, will be here after you?

Ah Sir, said the Dervise, a House that changes its Inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual Succession of Guests, is not a Palace but a Caravansary.

Of course, being, as I said, ignorant of the language, I could not understand the matter of the improvisations; but as for the manner, just imagine a mad North American Indian, a howling and dancing Dervise, an excited Shaker, a violent case of fever-and-ague, a New York auctioneer, and a pugilist of the Tom Hyer school, all fused together, and you may form some faint idea of a Welsh bard in the agony of inspiration.

45 examples of  dervise  in sentences