19 Verbs to Use for the Word dervishes

Make me a Turkestan operetta, let me act a dervish, and you will see if I don't do it to the very life.

The Three Calenders, three royal princes, disguised as begging dervishes, each of whom had lost his right eye.

The sultan, having very bad health from over-feeding, sedentary habits, and luxurious ease, consulted the clever dervish.

"Lo! he beckons," cried the dervish; "and see those others at the corner, how they bend and heave.

"'Merryweather headed dervishes stop return stop shot mutilated stop raid communications.'

Ostriches have an irresistible way of waving their lovely plumy wings, and one old fellow twenty-five years old actually imitates the dervishes.

On the summit of this there stood upon that March morning three Arab chieftainsthe Sheik Kadra of the Hadendowas, Moussa Wad Aburhegel, who led the Berber dervishes, and Hamid Wad Hussein, who had come northward with his fighting men from the land of the Baggaras.

In one of the groves we met a dervish, who immediately set about charming our Boab.

"Slower also to go back, perchance, my brother," murmured the dervish.

A most vulgar spectacle was offered by many of the English candidates, among whom were several members of the War Cabinet, who used language worthy of raving dervishes before crowds hypnotized by promises of the most impossible things.

" "And yet these are other men," remarked the Berber dervish.

His sojourn was cut short at length by the riot which was made by the various persons who were directly or indirectly supported by the revenues of the Temple,a mongrel mob, brought to terms by the tact of the town clerk, who reminded the howling dervishes and angry silversmiths of the punishment which might be inflicted on them by the Roman proconsul for raising a disturbance and breaking the law.

[Science of rotary motion] trochilics^. [person who rotates] whirling dervish.

In their march in front of what looked like a face of cliff, they had come opposite to the mouth of the gully, in which, screened by scrub and boulders, 3,000 chosen dervishes, under Hamid Wad Hussein, of the Baggaras, were crouching.

We saw these dervishes once; nothing could persuade us to go twicethey were too nasty.

I went into the caravanserai, sought out a friendthe dervish whom I had known at Meshedand asked his advice.

Yet we hope to smite them again ere the new moon be come, to which end I trust that thou wilt send us a thousand Dervishes from Omdurman.

Before reaching Nablous, I stopped to drink at a fountain of clear and sweet water, beside a square pile of masonry, upon which sat two Moslem dervishes.

" Anerley took up the slip of paper and read: Merryweather obstacles stop journey confer general stop nature difficulties later stop rumours dervishes.

19 Verbs to Use for the Word  dervishes