"Pers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Shazarwan" from Pers. Shadurwan, a palace, cornice, etc. That of the Meccan Ka'abah is a projection of about a foot broad in pent-house shape sloping downwards and two feet above the granite pavement: its only use appears in the large brass rings welded into it to hold ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... frequentative. gen. genitive. ger. gerundive. impers. impersonal. indecl. indeclinable. indef. indefinite. infin. infinitive. interrog. interrogative. loc. locative. m. masculine. n. neuter. part. participle. pass. passive. perf. perfect. pers. personal. plur. plural. prep. preposition. pron. pronoun or pronominal. rel. relative. sing. ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... I was too ready to draw in my horns if they didn't seem to accept me straight at what I judged my own value. For a long while now it has been my endeavor to sink what was once described to me as my pers'nal equation. I don't think of myself at all, if I can help it; and the consequence is the shyness gets pushed into the background, my manner becomes more free and open, and people begin to treat me in ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... admitted, with good effect, from the Irish Verb; such as, bhuaileas I struck, bhuailis thou didst strike, bhuaileamar we struck, bhuaileadar they struck. The Pret. Subj. is formed by adding to the Root inn for the first pers. sing., and adh for the other persons. The first pers. ...
— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart
... archaios nes], but if one of the two temples was no longer in existence, the name must belong to the other. It is just possible that in Hesychios, [Greek: Ecatompedos nes en te acropolis te Parthen cataskeuastheis upo Athenain, meixn tou empresthentos upa tn Persn posi penteconta], the expression [Greek: tou empresthentos upo tn Persn posi penteconta (ne or possibly Ecatompedon ne)] was originally chosen because the expression [Greek: archaiou ne] (which would otherwise be very appropriate here) was regularly used ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... "Anahid" (vol. vii. p. 209) gives the famous legend of the angels Harut and Marut, who were punished for their temptation of the beautiful Zuhra, the Arabic Venus.[236] Schack has substituted the old Persian name of Anahita (mod. Pers. nahid) for the Arabic name, and has otherwise also ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... presently escape from it, wrinkled and shrivelled, true Domine Dolittles. Of Turkistan we know little, but what we know confirms my statement. Mr. Schuyler in his Turkistan (i. 132) offers an illustration of a "Batchah" (Pers. bachcheh catamite), "or singing-boy surrounded by his admirers." Of the Tartars Master Purchas laconically says (v. 419), "They are addicted to Sodomie or Buggerie." The learned casuist Dr. Thomas Sanchez the Spaniard had (says Mirabeau in Kadhesch) to decide a difficult ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... Hagmatana, as appears from the Behistun inscription. This form, Hagmatana, is in all probability derived from the three words ham, "with" (Sans, sam, Latin cum), gam, "to go" (Zend gd, Sans, 'gam), and ctana (Mod. Pers. -stan) "a place." The initial ham has dropped the m and become ha, and cum becomes co- in Latin; gam has become gma by metathesis; and gtan has passed into -tan by phonetic corruption. Ha-gma-tana would be "the place for assembly," or for "coming together" (Lat. comitium); ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media • George Rawlinson
... She's exhibiting her trewsow at the Outagamie County Fair this week, for the handwork and embroid'ry prize. Ain't it brazen? They say the crowd's so thick around the table that they had to take down the more pers'nal pieces. The first day of the fair the grand-stand was, you might say, empty, even when they was pullin' off the trottin' races and the balloon ascension. It's funny—ain't it?—how them garmints that you wouldn't turn for a second look at on the clothesline or in a store ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber |
