"Druse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Turk, and the Atheist, Essene, Erastian Whig, And the Thug and the Druse and the Catholic, And the ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton
... astonished to know that amidst this prodigious diversity of races Syria is more easy to conquer than to keep possession of. With the exception of the Ansarich, who inhabit the north of Syria, all of them obeyed, at the moment when the war broke out, the Emir Bechir, a Druse, prince of the family of the celebrated Fakr el Din, who revolted against Amurath the Fourth. The Emir Bechir, when Abdallah raised the standard of revolt in 1822, sought the protection of Mehemet Ali, who ...
— Sketches • Benjamin Disraeli |
