The Parsee is the only sect holding religious tenets strange enough to stamp them as "peculiar people" who amount to much in the material affairs of life. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
"Parsee," said he to the guide, "you have been serviceable and devoted. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Eighty Days] Reference
Parsee said he was fairly confident of the outcome. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Parsee, the Roman and Greek churches, meet together. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I used to see under the old Parsee builder in Bombay. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
The biographer of the Parsee philanthropist, Malabari. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
"Sometimes in complex cases they do that," Parsee said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In later times historians and the Arabs have called it Parsee. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
The great Bombay reformer, the Parsee, Malabari, is not even a. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
Parsee, pupil of a Mission School, doubting if it is possible for the. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
We had met a Parsee gentleman of culture and refinement on the steamer. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Parsee cited time constraints as a main reason for the missed deadline. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Parsee grew into a sort of reverence for the elements of air, earth and water. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Our party ate at one table, and the Parsee nabob had his own in solitary state. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Therefore the old Parsee nation manifested the utmost contempt toward the Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
A Parsee rises early, washes his hands and face, and recites his prayers toward the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
Parsee said under the court order, Shaik's team had to be prepared to argue both issues. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Parsee doctrine of demons, also, was not unknown in Arabia, after the conquest of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Comparative View of Religions] Reference
The only Parsee I was ever acquainted with who had received a liberal education, was Moula. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Next door to the U.S. Consulate lived a Parsee named Botelwalla, who was an English subject. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Parsee priests, for more than two thousand years and until the advent of the modern oil well. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
He had given the State a number of dates on which the defence would be available, Parsee said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Parsee jumped to the ground, fastened the elephant to a tree, and plunged into the thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in 80 Days] Reference
Parsee say, 'Who are the blaggards ye've brought here wid ye?' followed by an unintelligible reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
Outwardly the Arabian nation was instrumental in overthrowing the Parsee dominion, the sovereignty of. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
"'I don't understand Parsee, sir,' said I."'That was no foreign tongue; that was American -- with a brogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
A Parsee believes the soul of a dead man is for three days walking near the tomb where the dead body is laid. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
He's a Parsee from India and deals in money and foreign exchange and buys and sells stocks from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
The grooms and washermen are all Bengalees, and there is a small but highly respectable class of Parsee merchants. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
But it is the quaint Parsee garb that first attracts attention; and the weird romance that attaches to the history of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Having arrived and refreshed ourselves at our hotel, whose proprietor was, as usual, a Parsee, we sallied forth for a stroll about Poona. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
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