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... an assembly in years: Scythian, Etruscan, VOICES FROM THE PAST 20 Turkish, Negro. Bowls of incense sent threads to the ceiling. Wisps floated... .... Then there are the new girls: Heptha, with copper hair... Myra, who is Turkish... Helen, a scatterbrained darling... Ah, but each is exquisite in ... ...ere, the other way...those three boats...see the red shields at the bow...Turkish pirates...they’re attacking Mytilene. I’ll row for the beach. Hang ... ...ing, P VOICES FROM THE PAST 76 threw open the door and beat off a Turkish spear. Catching two men by surprise, he wounded one in the neck an... ...shield high on his arm. Long after dusk, men scouted the streets, all the Turkish boats at sea: the town buzzed with shouts and whistles: a drum thr... ... of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the majors have theirs. I confront them with a ...

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... swig of the gin he was nursing. “But not all of them served as lieutenant colonels as these papers say you did. Not all of them were married to He... ...en I came in, I could tell them you were kidnappin’ me to be Pasha for your Turkish harem, and they wouldn’t blink an eye.” He dipped his fingers i...

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...ntic Knights of St. John. The heroic days of the Order ended as the last Turkish galley lifted anchor after the memorable siege. The present stately... ...t my head. CHAPTER VI:SMYRNA—FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE EAST I AM GLAD THAT THE TURKISH PART of Athens was extinct, so that I should not be baulked of the ... ...r breathe it, though I am dying to tell it. The last good description of a Turkish bath, I think, was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s—which voluptuous pic... ...her sketch may be attempted by a humbler artist in a different manner. The Turkish bath is certainly a novel sensation to an Englishman, and may be se... ... you off for soap?”Y ou little knew what saponacity was till you entered a Turkish bath. When the whole operation is concluded, you are led—with what ... ... reserved space. Before the august ar- rival, numerous officers collected, colonels and pashas went by with their attendant running footmen; the most ... ...d horse was led down to the shore to receive him; the eunuchs, fat pashas, colonels and officers of state gathering round as the Commander of the Fait... ...hes driving about with fat Pashas lolling on the cushions; stately-looking colonels and doctors taking their ride, followed by their orderlies or foot...

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...lf a criminal and a pris- oner at two-and-twenty years old; as for the two colonels, his comrades, they took the matter very lightly. Duelling was a p... ...ied with endless hampers of Burgundy and Champagne that the friends of the Colonels sent in); and Harry, having no wish for their drink or their conve... ...y god- dess Diana vouchsafed to appear to the young man. A blackamoor in a Turkish habit, with red boots and a silver collar, on which the Viscountess...

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...encies the Prince and Princess of Peterwaradin, H. E. Papoosh Pa- sha, the Turkish Ambassador (attended by Kibob Bey, drago- man of the mission), the ... ...Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. He led off the first charade. A Turkish officer with an im- mense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were su... ...the sake of the ladies, only a fragrant pastille was allowed to smoke. The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. He c... ...ks and tilted them into the Nile. “Bid the slave-merchant enter,” says the Turkish voluptu- ary with a wave of his hand. Mesrour conducts the slave- m... ...e stage, where it was quite pleasant to see the worthy fellows marching in Turkish dresses with rouge on 140 V anity Fair – V olume Three and wooden ... .... Almost directly after this, Dobbin’s name appeared among the Lieutenant- Colonels: for old Marshal Tiptoff had died during the passage of the —th fr...

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...is mouth, it must be owned that Mr. St. John sometimes rather acted like a Turkish than a Greek philosopher, and especially fell foul of one unfortuna... ...d Meredith, and Macartney, were the Duke of Marlborough’s men; and the two colonels had been broke but the year before for drinking perdition to the T... ...im two more lieutenant-generals, nine major-generals and brigadiers, seven colonels, eleven Peers of Parliament, and twenty-one members of the House o...

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...no it was ever furnished I did not hear; but it was openly stated that the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway compan... ... forget that night, or the vehement abolition enthusiasm of the two German colonels. Our host had told us that he was a slaveowner; and as our wants w... ...an officer’s rank could in no degree be predicated from his age. Generals, colonels, majors, captains, and lieutenants had been all appointed at the s... ...n for high commands, but beyond this everything was necessarily new. Young colonels and ancient captains abounded without any harsh feeling as to the ... ...is, I am well aware, less graceful, and I believe less comfortable, than a Turkish fez and turban; nevertheless I prefer my English hat. New York I re...

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...saw the name of an underling in office rated for a larger sum than the old colonels, maimed and wounded for their country. In that fact lies the whole... ... of the late auctioneer had utilized in her dining- room certain exquisite Turkish rugs which her father had bought at a bargain; panelling them on th...

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...ight spring-carriage of the sort affected by bachelors, retired lieutenant-colonels, staff-captains, land-owners possessed of about a hundred souls, a... ... then shook his head as be- fore. Next, the visitors were shown some “real Turkish” daggers, of which one bore the inadvertent inscription, “Saveli Si... ... gold, and the sleeves of their blouses embroidered after the fashion of a Turkish shawl. “You see here the species of kvass for which our house has l...

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...encies the Prince and Princess of Peterwaradin, H. E. Papoosh Pa- sha, the Turkish Ambassador (attended by Kibob Bey, drago- man of the mission), the ... ...Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. He led off the first charade. A Turkish officer with an im- mense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were su... ...the sake of the ladies, only a fragrant pastille was allowed to smoke. The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. He c... ...ks and tilted them into the Nile. “Bid the slave-merchant enter,” says the Turkish voluptu- ary with a wave of his hand. Mesrour conducts the slave- m... ...e stage, where it was quite pleasant to see the worthy fellows marching in Turkish dresses with rouge on and wooden scimitars, or as Roman warriors wi... .... Almost directly after this, Dobbin’s name appeared among the Lieutenant- Colonels: for old Marshal Tiptoff had died during the passage of the —th fr...

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...rrera, sat pensive, worked, read volumes of diplomatic treatises, squatted Turkish-fashion on a divan, and smoked three or four hookahs a day. His gro... ..., on being warned of some plot, by whatever means, would say to one of his colonels of the police force: “How much will you want to achieve this or th...

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...m. It is related that the ambassadors were admitted to the presence of the Turkish Emir through long lines of Moorish guards, and that they found the ... ...n’ to France. On the night of the fifteenth of October, accompanied by two colonels and a merchant, the King rode to Brighton, then a little fishing v...

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...a small table, with two bent wood chairs at it, is laid for breakfast with Turkish coffee pot, cups, rolls, etc.; but the cups have been used and the ... ... way. That upset their plans, and wounded their self- esteem. Two of their colonels got their regiments driven back on the correct principles of scien... ...-generals got killed strictly ac- cording to military etiquette. Those two colonels are now major-generals; and I am still a simple major. 33 Shaw CA... ...rated cush- ions, and the window seats are well upholstered divans. Little Turkish tables, one of them with an elaborate hookah on it, and a screen to...

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...s also to their mode of thinking; and as their country wavered between the Turkish and Austrian rule, so their minds vacillated between revolt and sub... ...always easy for an enterprising noble to obtain their support. The nearest Turkish pasha was always ready to bestow the Hungar- ian sceptre and crown ... ... a war against Tur- key, and against Bethlem Gabor in Transylvania, who by Turkish aid had forcibly usurped the sovereignty of that land, and even thr... ... his approach, and never attempted resistance. In the meanwhile one of his colonels had been fortunate enough to take by surprise the town and citadel... ...nfusion, with the exception of a few regiments, which the bravery of their colonels Gotz, Terzky, Colloredo, and Piccolomini, compelled to keep their ... ...s that free town was jealous of its privileges, and devoted to the Swedes. Colonels Illo and Goetz were ordered by Wallenstein to the Warta, to push f... ... of the army, which he had so long confidently reckoned on. Three of them, Colonels Kinsky, Terzky, and Illo, had long been in his secrets, and the tw... ...nt commission, by which these orders of the Emperor were made known to the colonels 360 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War and officers, and the a...

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...fathers being no more expected to be sentimental about their children than colonels about sol- diers, or factory owners about their employees, though ... ...e for salvation as any Christian. Further, that the practical reason why a Turkish child should pray in a mosque and an English child in a church is t...

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... a reward for long services; and we never see young- sters made bishops or colonels immediately upon their laying aside the academical gown; and besid... ...n them they chiefly trade. They furnish with beauties the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and of all those who are wealthy enou...

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...presented the boat to Rafael Mendoza. It was Rafael Mendoza that saved the Turkish monarchy after the battle of Nezeeb. By sending three millions of p... ... his belle cousine. It may have been the red fezzes in the carriage of the Turkish ambassador which frightened the prince’s grays, or Mrs. Champignon’... ...tern of Peterwaradin for two hours against seven hun- 245 Burlesques dred Turkish janissaries, who were assailing it. Those deeds which had made the ... ...e the Pope of Rome. 273 Burlesques “And then there’s Sultan Saladin, That Turkish Soldan full of sin; He has a hundred wives at least, By which his p... ...doubt the sin- cerity of his new subjects’ protestations, and received the Colonels and Generals affably at his table. The next morning a proclamation... ...me de Flicflac appeared as Queen Elizabeth; and Lady Blanche Bluenose as a Turkish princess. An alderman of Lon- don and his lady; two magistrates of ...

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...lf a criminal and a pris- oner at two-and-twenty years old; as for the two colonels, his comrades, they took the matter very lightly. Duelling was a p... ...ied with endless hampers of Burgundy and Champagne that the friends of the Colonels sent in); and Harry, having no wish for their drink or their conve... ...vouchsafed to appear to the young man. A 172 Henry Esmond blackamoor in a Turkish habit, with red boots and a silver collar, on which the Viscountess... ...is mouth, it must be owned that Mr. St. John sometimes rather acted like a Turkish than a Greek philosopher, and especially fell foul of one unfortuna... ...d Meredith, and Macartney, were the Duke of Marlborough’s men; and the two colonels had been broke but the year before for drinking perdition to the T... ...im two more lieutenant-generals, nine major-generals and brigadiers, seven colonels, eleven Peers of Parliament, and twenty-one members of the House o...

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...took the gentlemen into his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?”... ...ed in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from his father who had brought it fr... ...mes stop- ping to say a few friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes also to the soldiers. Look- ing at their boots he se... ..., on to glory, led by Father Kamenski.” This song had been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the only change being that ... ...he officers gladly gathered round him, some on their knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. “Y es, the Austrian prince who built that... ...thers to a house where a French general with a white mustache sat with two colonels and other Frenchmen with scarves on their arms. With the precision...

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...ade an end of the fray between Presthan, King of Per- sia, and Soliman the Turkish emperor, we have stopped up the passages between the Tartars and th... ...eled off. Then said Epistemon to Pantagruel: The denomination of these two colonels of yours, Maul-chitterling and Cut-pud- ding, promiseth us assuran... ...th me to see you foresee and prognosticate our victory by the names of our colonels. This way of foretelling by names is not new; it was in old times ...