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One of the men attacked by the dervish was a native non-commissioned officer. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Before the warriors of the Mehdi made the term 'dervish' better known, it was commonly understood to signify a beggar. From Wordnik.com. [Persia Revisited] Reference
This, venerable dervish, is the whole of my history. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
As for the four or five thousand dervish cavalry that. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
"Misnar alone can release them," answered the dervish. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The dervish answered by offering questions on his own side. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
"Are you satisfied?" asked the dervish who had first spoken. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
British arms the dervish movement made further rapid progress. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
I whirl like a dervish for the sheer joy of being at the place. From Wordnik.com. [Ioh] Reference
The name of this observant and synthetic-minded dervish was not. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
The dervish prevented him by beginning the conversation himself. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
She spun around, then around again, then again, like a dervish. From Wordnik.com. [Cellphone Girl (Part I)] Reference
Then I become a dervish of energy, knocking my knee into his groin. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Melt] Reference
He spins like a dervish, and Ngaujah's family is from Sierra Leone. From Wordnik.com. ['Fela!' Celebrates The Father Of Afrobeat] Reference
"My name," replies the stranger, "is Resim, and I am a poor dervish.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
In Suez a fortune-telling dervish, perhaps because he had just seen an. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
I am a dervish by inclination, but all the garments I wear are not mean. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Meanwhile the waterspout, whirling like a dervish, bore down upon the bark. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
That evening they encountered and drove back a small body of dervish horsemen. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
After this advice, the dervish threw off his cloak, and appeared as a magician. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
He combined the activity of a whirling dervish with the technique of an earthquake. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Omdurman were running off, as they believed the fall of the dervish rule was assured. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
“Here boy, drink this down, it'll set you straight” He grinned with a dervish glimmer. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Ship - Forgotten] Reference
He had travelled but a few hours when he perceived in the plain a man in the habit of a dervish. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The friendlies were most enthusiastic and eagerly asked to be led against their dervish enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Nature speaks not with the great in favour of a stranger covered with the old cloak of a dervish. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Rusting in a campus yard is the ingenious steel dervish, a remote-controlled mine-clearing device. From Wordnik.com. [Sky High] Reference
Khalifa's, led a powerful dervish army from Shendy north to raid the country to and beyond Berber. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
The tribesmen showed that they had abandoned the Khalifa by tearing the dervish patches off their clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
With still greater signs of displeasure, the dervish caused a fresh burden of similar presents to be brought. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The dryer is an F-5 dervish of mismatched socks, blue jeansand your yellowing college T's, lovingly held onto. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Time] Reference
His grizzled beard reached down to his waist, and his flowing black robes gave him the appearance of a dervish. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
The young man conceived the highest idea of the profession of a dervish, from its inspiring sentiments so humane. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
One of them was Caliph, and came to propose Haroun's quitting his habit of dervish, and accepting the place of Vizier. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
From the Sirdar and the Khalifa downwards -- for he was an ex-dervish and had played pranks in Omdurman -- none escaped. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
The courtiers, upon hearing his plain sentence, smiled, and said with a sneer, 'The dervish is well paid for his maxim.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
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