| 单词 | dervish |
| 例句 | He was the city of kings, and the voice of Scheherazade, the whirling dervishes that leap, the fire worshippers, the nomad Kurds, and the eighteen sheep. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I expect her to stay facing the wall, but instead she continues turning, spinning in some kind of dervish. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She runs at him and he melts before this whirling dervish with a damaged child in her arms and a healthy one stirring inside. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Show him the ticket, Charlie!” shouted Grandpa Joe, who was still dancing around the floor like a dervish in his striped pajamas. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “No one will blame you. I’ll tell everyone I got it from a dervish.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I’ll need to go soon. I can’t bring dishonor on the Association. Any whisper of this, and our enemies will dance like dervishes with delight.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I remember having conversations with Gil about alternative medicine, whirling dervishes, music from Africa and India and Latin America, and music's power as a healing force. Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London 2010-07-15T20:30:00Z Okpokwasili in motion is a sight to behold; she can shudder and shake like a dervish, or pop-and-lock along the ground like a wounded robot. | A Bronx Schoolyard Rivalry, Told Through Dance 2014-01-15T23:24:40Z Stoked by Bryan Devendorf's dervish drumming and funnel clouds of guitars, Berninger convincingly played characters hanging by the barest of threads. Arcade Fire turns anxiety into sing-alongs 2011-04-24T13:39:08Z Rumi’s coffin is draped in a green carpet, with a cylindrical black hat, the kind worn by dervishes, sitting atop. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z Whirling dervish ceremonies were started as a form of meditation by Jalaluddin Rumi, the famous Sufi Muslim mystic and poet, in the 13th century. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z At first it’s an ominous sight, these rotating dervishes in bathrobes, but soon their chests pitch forward and their robes open. Review: Fighting for the Right to Dance Giselle 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z An affable figure between songs, the bearded Finn is a whirling dervish as soon as the music starts. Liam Finn ? review 2011-07-22T17:42:08Z I had to help them get out of the shelter faster, before kennel life turned them into whirling dervishes that no one would adopt. Opening the Heart’s Floodgates, With a Paw 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The protagonist is a boy of 11 who pirouettes like a dervish and can leap like a gazelle. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z Not far behind is the pulpit dervish Clara Walker, whose exhortative way with a tune doubles as furnace and fan. ‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Later, another attendant whirled towels around bathers with the flourish of a dervish, wrapping the waist, shoulders and head in smooth white cloth before they returned to the entrance area. In Syria's Aleppo, the customers are back in the bathhouse 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z I’ve always wanted to see whirling dervishes perform the mystical Sufi ceremony known as a sema, in which their series of mesmerizing turns help them, and the audience, reach a state of nirvana. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In his 1932 book, “The Disappearing City,” he wrote of the American metropolis: “A parasite of the spirit is here, a whirling dervish in a whirling vortex.” | Frank Lloyd Wright’s Love-Hate Relationship With the American City 2014-01-29T20:24:54Z Nightly whirling dervish shows at 7 p.m. in a converted 15th-century Turkish bathhouse. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In the role of a self-made restaurateur with conservative leanings who tries to resume an old love affair after his wife has died, Nighy bounces around the apartment set like a Tory dervish. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z But Ms. Jones never sounds defeated by her hardships, especially in concert, in which she becomes a dervish. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z The people and the ideas in “The Old Drift,” like dervishes, are set whirling. ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Hence the enduring New York social type: the sharp-elbowed dervish party crasher, comprising equal parts of opportunism, chutzpah and off-price designer clothes, and whose current iteration is exemplified by Mr. Edgerson. Not Invited? No Worries for New York’s Party Crashers 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Women have been allowed to join some lodges, although an overwhelming number of dervishes are men. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Just imagine the guests at Gatsby's infamous parties whirling like dervishes in glorious stereoscope as the camera swoops high and low before disappearing under some poor flapper's cloche hat. Don't knock 3D films. They can sometimes be great 2011-01-11T20:00:03Z These dark dervishes, seemingly comprised solely of dirt and leaves and primal malice, are ingeniously symbolic, as if the land itself were rising to avenge past crimes. ‘Saloum’ Review: A Paranormal Showdown in the Desert 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Boseman also mastered the on-stage strutting and dance moves that inspired Jagger, Michael Jackson and plenty others; he’s a wondrous dervish — fully possessed in both sense of the word. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The salad spinner, still since June, now thinks it’s a whirling dervish. The greens of autumn require extra care when frost threatens 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z For decades, the dervishes had to retreat underground. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z She said by email that while visitors can see a show at any type of venue, “if you want to feel the love, you should go to a dervish lodge.” Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z These were the famous whirling dervishes in the throes of their devotion. Explorer: Pyramids by the Nile. Egypt? No, Sudan. 2012-10-05T15:50:42Z But soon the dancers begin to turn, whirling like dervishes across the stage, then lifting one another while still turning. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Offers a Premiere by Rachid Ouramdane 2014-02-26T22:22:22Z See a whirling dervish: It’s not dancing; it’s a demonstration of the trancelike whirling done by members of the mystical Sufi sect. Take a budget-friendly bus tour of Turkey 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z As they whirl, the dervishes’ right hands are symbolically turned upward toward God, while their left hands are turned downward to Earth. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Hashimoto, a whirling dervish in a black trench coat — at least he provides some unintentional comic relief — initially disapproves of Ms. Wang . Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z In 2005, the United Nations’ cultural body, UNESCO, proclaimed the dervishes’ ritual a masterpiece of “the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.” AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Dust-flecked beams of sunlight slice through shadows; green-robed dervishes glide down the Nile in boats; the turrets of a mosque pierce a startling blue sky. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z First, he converts the most aristocratic women of the city into whirling dervishes, gentle enough when they gambol in the mountains but capable of superhuman ferocity. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z A dervish of spite, she is forever trying to put her older daughter in her place. Review: In ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ a Hustle to Thrive in Jamaica 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z She often danced with passers-by, dressed in clouds of tulle and looking like a cross between a whirling dervish and a bride. Hunter Reynolds, Artist Who Dressed Up AIDS, Dies at 62 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Although religious orders were banned in Turkey in the early 1920s with the establishment of the secular republic, the dervishes’ rituals were regarded as a cultural heritage and the order was largely tolerated. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z You may think your own offspring make pretty good whirling dervishes, but this is your chance to see the real thing. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z From his flipped-out writing, I pictured a wild-eyed comedy dervish, muttering and slobbering like the Tasmanian Devil. Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America 2013-07-15T19:46:10Z The main feature of the “Sheb-i Arus” or “night of the union,” is an enchanting ritual performed by the dervishes of the Mevlevi order — more commonly known as the whirling dervishes. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Bowman is a language dervish—the pleasure in hearing him describe the adding machine, the source of William S. Burroughs’s family as “the rosary of capitalism,” belongs not to me but to literature. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The Zildjians likely also did business with Greek and Armenian churches, Sufi dervishes and the Sultan’s harem, where belly dancers wore finger cymbals. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The singer has dabbled in everything from new wave quirkiness to Mideastern dervishes, all the while refusing to embark on what would surely be a more lucrative endeavor: the Zeppelin reunion tour. Robert Plant shifts shape in Palladium concert 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Instead of the brazen dervish implicit in Pollock’s drip paintings, Mr. Johns proceeded carefully, mixing his oil paint with encaustic so that every stroke remained distinct. Review: Drips, Dropped: Pollock and His Impact 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The dervishes, dressed in long white robes symbolizing shrouds, black cloaks symbolizing tombs and long headgear symbolizing tombstones, then rise from the ground to salute each other. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z He’s a dervish, a force — one of the last true rock gods. Psst, So-and-So?s Got a Crush 2011-02-11T22:57:13Z At 3NY, Ms. Netrebko raced through the racks like a dervish, piling things on the counter: A red clutch adorned with “Nutcracker” figurines. Anna Netrebko Shops the Way She Sings: Exuberantly 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z There are now many Sufi dervish orders around the world, including in the United States. AP PHOTOS: Whirling dervish ritual honors Sufi mystic poet 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Onstage, Karen O is still mesmerizing, geysering liquids and power-posing on monitors, but she has tamed, ever so slightly, her wild dervish style. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z They pause, then spin like controlled dervishes and beat their feet to fast tabla rhythms. LINES Ballet’s ‘Rasa’ is beautiful but brutal Those with children released them into the mix, spinning, grinning and whirling like crazed little dervishes: "Something like this can only happen here," said dancer and organiser Giuliana Majo. Spirit of the underground: dance 2011-01-30T21:30:00Z It's one thing to interrupt an elaborate, "Bridgerton"-style formal affair with a weaponized menagerie and another level altogether to present it as a whirling dervish of fireworks, waterworks, gymnastics, and CGI wizardry. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In the spirit of helping other tourists get the most out of attending a whirling dervish ceremony, here’s what I wish I had known about the tradition, including what to expect and how to behave. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z And there are several later effects — those dervish spins — that look like afterthoughts, not organic parts of the whole. Review: A Work That Conjures Desert Sands and Whirlwinds 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Incredibly free and spontaneous-looking, they have a windblown, centrifugal energy, like whirling dervishes, and suggest the zero gravity of Matisse’s late paper cutouts. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The center had a small gallery showcasing different styles of dervish clothes and instruments with details about the history. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z For a festival like the whirling Mevlevi dervishes’ commemoration of the death of the Sufi mystic Rumi, in Turkey, Fest300 is one of the few resources on the Web that provide practical information on it. Close-Up: Hotels, Festivals and Identity 2013-07-24T16:46:33Z Suffice it to say, Rasputin dances like a whirling dervish, fighting any comers, and, as legend dictates, is immune to most attempts on his life. "The King's Man": Come for the goofy revisionist history, but stay for scenery-chewing Rasputin 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Martin is a literary dervish, enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language, and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers. Books of The Times: In a Fantasyland of Liars, Keep Your Dragon Close 2011-07-14T17:28:37Z The next time, however, it will be in within a dervish lodge, without my kids, and with a greater openness to suspend my restless mind and lose myself within the divine. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The effort of juggling all those personalities — and pursuing parallel careers as a comic dervish and a serious, Oscar-winning actor — apparently left Williams exhausted as well. Robin Williams: The Comic Who Was Hamlet 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z If all of Turkish history were on this bus, I’d be sitting next to sultans, whirling dervishes, Silk Road caravaners, shopkeepers, apostles and olive growers. Take a budget-friendly bus tour of Turkey 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z On Monday night, artrock scamps British Sea Power performed at the Roundhouse in London, surrounded by monks, sword dancers and whirling dervishes. Click to download: Bat for Lashes goes Gucci 2011-03-03T22:59:01Z Robe flying, the toothless dervish hurled himself to the ground, flipped and twirled with the loose-limbed dexterity of a teenager. Along the Niger River, the Beat of the Sahel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Watching Jamie spin around like a whirling dervish on TV preparing this meal, I felt personally affronted. Jamie Oliver's 30-minute meals are an affront to cooking 2010-12-22T13:30:00Z In recent years, the music has acquired a new looseness and swing, putting a syncopation in the step of many new songs and transforming Yorke into a dancing dervish. Concert review: Radiohead at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-11T06:27:00Z In another, whirling dervishes, seen from above, spin in a vertiginous triple video installation. In Transit: Outside of Paris, a Castle Hosts Contemporary Art and More 2011-07-24T10:00:26Z Advertisement Advertisement The narrator, a theoretical physicist, is fretful, introverted, a paragon of rationality; his wife, Nora, is exuberant, ethereal, a dervish of chaos. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Watching Davis onstage is like watching a whirling dervish. 'Once' star Elizabeth A. Davis celebrates Tony nod 2012-05-10T11:18:10Z In 1956, even though legislation still outlawed these Sufi sects, the Turkish government revived the whirling dervish ceremony as a cultural asset. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The mass images they create remain vivid in the memory: the heavenly host as colourful whirling dervishes, Noah's Ark sailing through a sea of umbrellas. York Mystery Plays – review 2012-08-11T23:05:38Z The largest whirling dervish festival takes place annually in December, usually around the anniversary of Rumi’s death on Dec. 17. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Stoked by Bryan Devendorf’s dervish drumming and funnel clouds of guitars, Berninger convincingly played characters hanging by the barest of threads. Arcade Fire at UIC: Improbable area rockers reign 2011-04-23T10:49:56Z In film shot when she was 6 she skates like a locomotive and spins like a dervish. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Price of Gold’ Revisits the Harding-Kerrigan Story 2014-01-15T22:56:24Z But soon, they were writing each other daily: about whirling dervishes, 17-year locusts, puberty, Faust, quitting smoking, Paganini and Interview with a Vampire. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z He wore Hakama pants and a silver burqa that revealed only his eyes and said he’d discovered his true identity as a whirling dervish. He went to Burning Man and never came back 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Kids scrambled to decipher the meaning of the sounds emitted by the pompadoured piano dervish. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z The image rhymes with one that appears shortly after, of another pale, round shape in motion, this time a whirling dervish, all in billowing white, spinning in a rhythmic trance on an urban basketball court. In Jesse Fleming's 'The Halftime Show,' the spectacle is all around us 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z As I stared at the empty stage, from which the dervishes had disappeared, I knew the magic was enough to make me want to seek out this mystical world once again. Here’s what you should know before attending a whirling dervish ceremony in Turkey 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Slender rafters grace the ceiling like spokes on a bicycle, while the sweeping light fixtures call to mind whirling dervishes. Review | At Rumi’s Kitchen, you’ll find poetry on the plate and mannequins by your side 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s a tough job, but Rebecca, an ebullient, wisecracking, fist-bumping whirling dervish, is more than up to the task and Sherman plays the offbeat role to the hilt. Review: 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' is a sweet take on rites, fights and tween drama 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z During Ultimate, I felt like I was chasing a whirling dervish around the field. Picking up skills in this vigorous team sport is the Ultimate challenge 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z And so there he was Friday, a whirling dervish of encouragement as Lake Washington sparkled in the background on a glorious spring day at a facility that had the rookies marveling at its grandeur. Pete Carroll enters his 50th coaching season even more fired up than usual about Seahawks 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The whirling dervish that is Kyogo has been the difference of late. 'Rangers must rewrite recent history to halt marauding Celtic' 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z For the new wave who weren't around to see those heroes in the flesh, Kyogo, the whirling dervish of Celtic Park, is surely the man. 'Celtic put title to bed & Kyogo puts out light' 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z In some orders of Sufism, a branch of Islam, whirling dervishes spin in circles as a form of religious dance in which the movement induces a spiritual and trancelike state. Why Primates (Including Humans) Love to Spin Ourselves around until We All Fall Down 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The tennure robes symbolize funeral shrouds, the cloaks a tomb and the hats a tombstone — outfits that are part of a centuries-old tradition performed by the whirling dervishes of Turkey. AP PHOTOS: Dervishes on mystic Rumi’s path whirl for God 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The talent behind the spectacle is pastry chef Pichet Ong, the whirling dervish who doubles as a guide in the dining room and the reason you want to stay for dessert. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 7 favorite places to eat right now 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z She has been a whirling dervish of activity. Analysis | ‘I feel balanced about it all’: Nancy Pelosi reflects on two decades at the top 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z They have waited for him to talk about how his life has been influenced by his faith, which he once told an interviewer hewed to the mystical Sufi Islam of the whirling dervishes. Oz Could Be the First Muslim U.S. Senator, but Some Muslim Americans Are Ambivalent 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z The researchers compared the apes’ rope spinning speeds to human pirouettes in professional ballet and the turning of Ukrainian hopak dancers, Sufi whirling dervishes and suspended spinning-rope acts by circus artists. Why Primates (Including Humans) Love to Spin Ourselves around until We All Fall Down 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The dervishes, a Sufi order of Islam that is rooted in mysticism, are chiefly known for the “sama” ritual in which they spin in unison with prayers and verses from the Quran. AP PHOTOS: Dervishes on mystic Rumi’s path whirl for God 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Timme, the mustachioed, headband-wearing whirling dervish, was as good as advertised while converting 13 of 21 shots and collecting 13 rebounds in 27 minutes. Drew Timme overcomes jitters, scores 32 to help Gonzaga men pull away in NCAA tourney opener 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z In 2021, she was forced to flee as the Taliban consider Sufi whirling dervishes to be heretical and against Islamic law. BBC 100 Women 2021: Who is on the list this year? 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Someday, I too will spin from my bird body, become a dervish of the wheeling wind. ‘My Eyes Landed on Something I Didn’t Know I Was Looking For’ 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The Taliban sees Sufi whirling dervishes as against Islamic law. The escape of the whirling dancer 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z He decided to start training as a dervish a few days later. AP PHOTOS: Dervishes on mystic Rumi’s path whirl for God 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Dukakis was the resident dervish: She answered phones, raised money from state and federal agencies and local businesses, served as producing artistic director, directed shows, and starred in at least one play a year. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Dukakis was the resident dervish: She answered phones, raised money from state and federal agencies and local businesses, served as producing artistic director, directed shows, and starred in at least one play a year. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z You smell it before it hits your tongue: a sinuous dervish of scent twisting from the cup like a genie unleashed. No matter where — or when — you stumble upon it, Turkish Coffee will steep into your very soul 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z That idiosyncrasy is reassured when a sheik and his dervish predict young Muzamil will only survive two decades before passing on. Review: Amjad Abu Alala's 'You Will Die at 20' is unlike anything you will see this year 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z More than a pleasant timekeeper, she was a dervish behind the drums and found it difficult to conduct the group while playing. Viola Smith, swing era’s ‘fastest girl drummer in the world,’ dies at 107 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z As she spins, one hand reaches toward heaven and the other toward the earth, her white robe flowing, in the familiar image of a so-called “whirling dervish” seen across the Middle East and Central Asia. Young Afghan women, men practice whiling Sufi dance together 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z But … there’s something so satisfying about Ash’s head-beating, particularly that whirling dervish dance he does right before the decapitation. Did ‘Alien’ deserve to beat ‘Star Wars’? Our critics discuss Ridley Scott's classic 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “No sooner has he hit an opening chord than his eyes roll back in his head and he begins to bob and weave like a dervish in a trance,” Palmer wrote in 1977. Buzzy Linhart, freewheeling fixture of Greenwich Village music scene, dies at 76 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Evan — quick, spinning, a dervish of a linebacker — would drill him. He Was Fearless on a Football Field. But He Sensed Something Wasn’t Right. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In addition to her Quran-based works, Arastu does a series that blends its verses with those of Hebrew, Sanskrit and Christian scriptures, as well as figures of dervishes. With canvas and Quran, one artist aims to make Islamic calligraphy a universal language 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z We named you after an American dancer in Paris from long ago; a whirling dervish with a spinning technicolor skirt: brave, liberated and determined. Opinion | Erika Zak: A posthumous letter to my daughter 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The truth, however, is that we do know a lot about Trump's behavior, since he's a whirling dervish of narcissism who provides an endless stream of observable information and witnesses. Nuking the hurricane: Diagnosing Trump's apparent mental illness isn't the point 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z But he soon revealed himself as something of a dervish and an odd kind of prodigy. The Message of Measles 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Through it all, Mr. Prince was a dervish of creative impatience. Harold Prince, consummate Broadway impresario, dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The wildly galloping thieves at the end were a showpiece of whirling dervishes transformed into rocket-propelled worms. Review: Thomas Adès’ spectacular ‘Inferno’ gets the Wayne McGregor and Tacita Dean touch 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z This whirling dervish of a film is a visceral sensory experience — a bloody, screaming whirlpool of sex and violence that tugs us all the way down to the depths of inhumanity before a merciful release. ‘Climax’ dances through a violent acid trip 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Among the most visually stunning tributes is a mesmerizing ceremony by the whirling dervishes. AP PHOTOS: Turkey’s whirling dervishes honor Sufi poet 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z I want to be that black girl in a movie that is just a paradox, a whirling dervish. Seven women, seven juicy roles: The Envelope's Actress Roundtable 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The fast-breaking dervishes of the second half of last season, powered by the chancy brilliance of Salah’s goal rush? Brilliant Eden Hazard sparkles to win personal duel with Mohamed Salah | Barney Ronay 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z During the course of a single martian day there may be several million of these swirling dervishes – each popping up for a few minutes at a time. Dust Bowl Mars 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z A protest by dervishes at a police station in northern Tehran turned violent when the policemen were hit and killed by a bus. Iran police die in clashes with Sufis 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The dervishes wear long, conical headgear that symbolizes the tombstone. AP PHOTOS: Turkey’s whirling dervishes honor Sufi poet 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Another highlight is Laurel Jenkins' choreography, which when she wasn't having to re-create Studio 54, allowed for extraordinary abstract solos and groups whirling like dervishes. L.A. Phil's 'Mass': Leonard Bernstein glorious mess He is a member of the Gonabadi dervish order, a minority Muslim sect not recognised by the Iranian authorities. Iran protests: deaths in custody spark human rights concerns 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It is also the birthplace of the Mevlevi Order and its whirling dervishes, a symbol of mystical Islam. Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Videos published on social media before the incident showed dervishes holding a sit-in protest in front of a police station against the detention of one of their members. Iran police die in clashes with Sufis 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z One of Sufism’s most recognizable figures is the whirling dervish, whose rapid spinning, along with the repeated invoking of the name of Allah, allows them to attain a state of an ecstatic trance. Who are Sufi Muslims and why are they the target of Muslim extremists? 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z On Saturday morning, as an encore, Trump woke up and declared on Twitter that he would not invite Steph Curry, that whirling dervish star of the Golden State Warriors, to the White House. As Trump Takes On Athletes, Watch Them Rise 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z And I watched the dervishes whirl while sitting next to Gehad, a young Egyptian woman who passionately studied the poetry of Rumi with a Sufi teacher. Perspective | I finally went on the honeymoon I’d always dreamed of — alone 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z They sing, visit his tomb and watch the hypnotic whirling of robe-clad dervishes, representing man’s spiritual ascent to the divine. Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z A video posted on Twitter shows some protesters marching in the middle of the road and some others sitting on the road, holding banners with the photo of the arrested dervish, chanting "God is great." Iran police die in clashes with Sufis 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Still, in the run-up to the 100-day mark, the administration has become a whirling dervish of activity. Trump scrambles to show progress as the 100-day mark approaches 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z I danced with a quite inebriated woman who told me that she was dressed as a “whirling dervish”. My night in naked New Orleans: the Mardi Gras party I'll never forget 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z She practices Sufi whirling, a twirling style of dance associated with Persian dervishes that involves extended stretches of vigorous spinning in a meditative trance. New York’s Noises? It’s Music to Her 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z On the night of Dec. 17, which is considered Rumi’s “Wedding Day” with God, dervishes perform the trancelike dance to large crowds. Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The dervishes are miniature versions of the kilometers-tall storms that physically morph the surface of Mars. Dust devils have an electric heartbeat 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Like whirling dervishes the two candidates flew from battleground state to battleground state, speaking until they were hoarse. Inside Clinton and Trump's Final Dash 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Worshipers frequently lose themselves in a spinning frenzy, as with the well-known whirling dervishes. Sufi Sect of Islam Draws ‘Spiritual Vagabonds’ in New York 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Touring the ground floor recording studio construction, where carpenters were framing walls and electricians laying wire, Moore moved like a dervish, brainstorming as he walked. Skrillex's ambitions go beyond music to empire-building: Inside his Nest in Chinatown 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z On Saturday, he looked much better, a dervish with no signs of the ravages of his old favorite drug, “lean” – codeine cough syrup mixed with soda and candy. A fromidable Lil Wayne leads a celebratory hip-hop showcase at the BET Experience 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z What in the world was she going to do with this whirling dervish of a child, whose energy level never seemed to wane and whose antics, she worried, were going to get him seriously hurt? Donnell Whittenburg closes in on stardom, one vault at a time 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z President Ronald Reagan did some campaigning for George W. Bush in 1988 but wasn't any whirling dervish supporter. The Obama-Clinton Tag Team 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Inside is where New Yorkers are most likely to encounter whirling dervishes. Sufi Sect of Islam Draws ‘Spiritual Vagabonds’ in New York 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “DOPPA!” he bellows, spinning and jumping like a dervish through the crowd of more than a hundred people. Kindergarten teacher by day, pro wrestler at night 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Arsani writes the lyrics for the group-written songs, taking inspiration from the rhythmic music of the Sufis, Islamic mystics whose ranks include “whirling dervishes.” Time Is Fire’s ‘music from a country that doesn’t exist’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Harissa and Hummus keep swirling— Dancing closely with hip against hip, Two dervishes spinning and whirling. Hummus Swirled With Harissa: A Poem 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z He’s a whirling dervish of activity as he whizzes around his Clancy home. Parents use book to explain son’s fight for life 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z “Worshipers frequently lose themselves in a spinning frenzy, as with the well-known whirling dervishes.” Sufi Sect of Islam Draws ‘Spiritual Vagabonds’ in New York 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z These and other items are said to have been used by dervishes, members of Sufi religious orders, in Turkey and elsewhere. Looking beyond the ecstatic whirling; viewing African artists via their books 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z South Africa 27-22 Japan Japan have tackled like dervishes today, but that was a little bit bobbins. South Africa 32-34 Japan: Rugby World Cup 2015 – as it happened 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The spinning of the dervish dancers is partially meant to symbolize the way Muslim pilgrims performing the Hajj pilgrimage ritually circle the cube-shaped Kabaa in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, el-Toney said. AP PHOTOS: Cairo's dervishes spin for their supper 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z He’s perpetually in motion, a one-man carousel; he makes a whirling dervish look like a cinnamon Danish. Cases for and against LeBron James as the NBA’s greatest 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z A whirling dervish of creative energy and zeal, Welch brings focus and groundwork to the individual efforts of schools and teachers. Partnership meets goal, continues forward in Lincoln schools 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Sufism is a mystical strain of Islam: Its adherents have included the celebrated whirling dervishes, who traditionally practiced ecstatic movement as a way of communing with the divine. Looking beyond the ecstatic whirling; viewing African artists via their books 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Japan have tackled like dervishes today, but that was a little bit bobbins. South Africa 32-34 Japan: Rugby World Cup 2015 – as it happened 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Best known for the "whirling dervishes" who spin in a trance, Sufism developed alongside mainstream Islam. Killing of 11 Sufis at Afghan mosque mystifies authorities 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Noah is a talkative, demonstrative, rebounding and defending dervish who easily bothers the opposition. Extreme dislike for Bulls flies with Wizards to Chicago 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Oregon and Ohio State possess fine quarterbacks, whirling dervish running backs, all-American defensive linemen and special teams that charge downfield like barbarian hordes. With Threat of Union Comes a Trickle of Benefits to College Football Players 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The dervish interpretation of Islam, he says, is “nonpolitical and more sophisticated.” Looking beyond the ecstatic whirling; viewing African artists via their books 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Once off the court, Noah morphed from his playing state of annoying dervish to reverent. Nene and Gortat muscle Washington past Chicago 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z The Super Smash Bros. series mushes these many distinct worlds into one, with all of Nintendo’s luminous demigods, guided by an outside hand, converging in a violent dervish. VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Super Smash Bros. is a comforting brand of mayhem 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z But Dallas’s roster features a scraggly collection of players who, on paper, might seem like a random collection of N.B.A. has-beens rather than integral pieces in the whirling dervish of a highly efficient offensive machine. N.B.A. Game of the Week: Mavericks at Grizzlies 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Jerusalem, he wrote, was the Mecca of the dervishes. Jerusalem's 800-year-old Indian hospice 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z The artifacts testify to the spiritual life and the daily practical needs of dervishes. Looking beyond the ecstatic whirling; viewing African artists via their books 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Across the line of scrimmage Rontez Miles, a dervish on defense, even at age 10. Two Jets, Two Friends, Together Through Life and Through Football 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z In Iran, Gonabadi dervishes face persecution, discrimination, harassment, arbitrary arrests and attacks on their prayer houses, Amnesty said. Iran executes man for heresy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Even the sober Nobel Peace laureate Obama is starting a new desert dervish that could undermine a delicate balance at home – and his own record. Shakespeare's 'King Lear' Echoes Our Modern Politics 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z You find Taylor, that whirling dervish, who while at the University of Missouri was a tough loss removed from the Final Four. Rucker Park Stars Set Their N.B.A. Dreams Aside and Head Abroad 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Newer items include seven fantasias on calligraphy by Cilek, who took inspiration from calligraphic works produced in dervish communities. Looking beyond the ecstatic whirling; viewing African artists via their books 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Army of the very near future, when Europe has been overrun with an alien force of huge, hissing, squid-like dervishes. Tom Cruise has still got it in “Edge of Tomorrow.” Amnesty said last week that a group of nine Gonabadi dervishes were on hunger strike in protest at their treatment in prison. Iran executes man for heresy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The two goals were set up Dominic Moore, the fourth liner and former Canadien who skated and passed like a dervish Saturday. Rangers Rout Canadiens in Game 1 of Eastern Finals 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z York remembered seeing a pint-size whirling dervish and wondering: “Where did he come from? I had never seen him before.” B.U. or B.C.? Hockey Star Let Brother Pick 2014-03-26T00:08:17Z Still, the torching of the Vikings validated Hester's belief he still can be a game-changing dervish if allowed to zero in exclusively on what he's best at. Hester puts rest of NFL on notice ... again 2013-09-21T21:04:00Z With Prof Pap, I kneel in the mosque to examine dervish graffiti in the plaster - calligraphic images of the face of God, frowned on by mainstream Islam. Searching for the sultan's heart 2013-09-01T23:10:24Z “The men are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely for practising their faith and defending the human rights of dervishes through their legitimate activities as journalists and lawyers.” Iran executes man for heresy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z A Sufi dervish placed the point of an Ottoman-style saber on his right cheek Thursday, as part of a ceremony to celebrate Nowruz in the town of Gjakova, western Kosovo. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z SALVATION: Kosovo dervishes took part in a ceremony in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, Thursday. Photos of the Day: March 22 2013-03-22T19:31:23Z And then they assault the breakdown like dervishes. New Zealand play lovely rugby but they are not lovely sportsmen 2012-11-24T20:30:06Z A British translator of the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk once described his prose as a “trance,” evidently deriving this compliment from the swirling dervishes of Istanbul’s tourist lanes. Letter from India: Is Rushdie the Voice of a Billion? 2012-09-26T13:40:04Z His earthliness places him not among those larger-than-life kind of heroes, but among the humble, quiet ones—a dervish hero. The Diplomatic Indiana Jones 2012-09-13T17:39:00Z A sheik performs a ceremony with the Kosovo dervishes. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z The Kosovo dervish community carries on centuries-old mystical practices as a way to earn salvation and find the path to God. Photos of the Day: March 22 2013-03-22T19:31:23Z A profanely charismatic dervish of a man, Wong is all over the car thing. The Leanest Start-up in Silicon Valley 2012-07-03T04:00:00Z Despite suffering from sciatica and having to use a walker and a cane, she is a whirling dervish of energy. City Room: 80-Year-Old Widow Is an Internet Hit 2012-05-04T19:44:34Z The child was about three years old, and was dying, and the mother had brought it there to be cured by the breath of the dervishes. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z The dervishes are clad in red and black robes and white woolen hats. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z SALVATION: Kosovo dervishes took part in a ceremony in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, Thursday. Photos of the Day: March 22 2013-03-22T19:31:23Z The closest modern analogy would be the orders of dervishes in Islām. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z These dervishes wander from place to place, chanting, singing, and begging. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z A drum beats in quickening time to the voice of the priest and to the gasps of the dervishes, and a flute playing a weird accompaniment seems to mock at their fierce grunts and breathings. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z A Sufi dervish placed the point of an Ottoman-style saber on his right cheek Thursday, as part of a ceremony to celebrate Nowruz in the town of Gjakova, western Kosovo. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z The Kosovo dervish community carries on centuries-old mystical practices as a way to earn salvation and find the path to God. Photos of the Day: March 22 2013-03-22T19:31:23Z His talk had been mainly about shooting dervishes in Egypt and hunting tigers in India, and some of his exploits had thrilled her to the finger-tips. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Fasts and Feasts—Seyyids, dervishes, mullahs—Legends of the drowning mullah, and the yard square hole. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z There is a mosque on the outside of the city which people visit on certain days to see the howling dervishes go through their peculiar form of worship. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z Kosovo dervishes follow Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z Near it is a fountain protected by magnificent plane-trees which are surrounded by iron railings decorated with dervish caps. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z The funeral cort�ge consisted of about a dozen dervishes clad in long black robes with high conical head-coverings made of rough yellowish-gray woolen material, and about three times the height of an ordinary fez. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z Of these the dervish is one very much to the fore. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z In the neighborhood lived a very famous dervish, who was deemed the best philosopher in Turkey; him they went to consult. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z The dervishes are clad in red and black robes and white woolen hats. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z I retorted that all the dervishes' caps I had seen upon living heads were the color of earth. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z For this purpose he donned the garb and appearance of a dervish. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "I am lost," he stammered, and quite beside himself he plunged into the interior of the tent to pray with the dervishes. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z “Why do you trouble your head about it?” said the dervish; “is it any business of yours?” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z A sheik performs a ceremony with the Kosovo dervishes. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z It was the portrait of a dervish's cap worked in silk. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z Staid citizens danced up and down like howling dervishes, hats were tossed into the air or jovially crushed on their owners’ heads, and happy riot reigned everywhere. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z The dervish entered, closed the door behind him, let down the tapestries, took off his false beard and false raiment, and there before Feriz—tremulous, blushing, and shamefaced—stood the odalisk. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z At these words the dervish shut the door in their faces.—Candide. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Kosovo dervishes follow Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding. Celebrating Spring With Dances and Blood 2013-03-26T15:02:02Z The dervishes curse, but every one uses the name Allah wherever they can bring it in. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z "I owe you my life," said the dervish to Burnet as they rode on, "and I thank you." Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z They therefore permitted pious Azrael to visit the worthy dervish so wrapped up that only her eyes were visible, and soon afterwards saw her return with the gracious old man. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z It is a well-known fact that white-hot iron may be licked with impunity, and the Mevleheh dervishes are proficient in the trick of holding red-hot iron between their teeth. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z What would have happened had a strong force of dervishes attacked us I do not know, but fortunately we were unmolested. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z There were no caravans on the road, but I met several dervishes, and there is one here to whom I have given what he demanded—a night's lodging. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z When they were still a mile or two distant from Meshed Ali, within sight of the glittering dome of its mosque towering high above the walls, the dervish dismounted. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z She must go again to the mosque of the old dervish to pray, for she had been dreaming of Hassan. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z He tore his hat from his head, his coat from his shoulders, shook off his tormentors and spinning around like a dancing dervish, dashed off toward the brook. Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z Why she thought that the dervishes were considerate enough to keep out of her cabin I do not know, nor why she consented to believe my husband and not her own children. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Crowds of soldiers, mollahs, dervishes, and others were there to see the visit, which was one of ceremony. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z You are a wise man, O dervish," said Ibrahim, "and I perceive that the spirit of Firouz Ali is in you. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z And with that he threw some gold ducats to the dervish and galloped off. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Now City’s 10 men would run like dervishes. On Soccer: Manchester Shows Its Colors, and Red Is Victorious 2012-01-08T21:01:37Z I see the —— says we kill all the wounded, but when I left Omdurman there were between six and seven thousand wounded dervishes in hospital there. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z O Thou, the quest of whom holds all in dizziness and distress, the dervish and the rich are equally void of means of reaching Thee. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z As Burnet slunk out of the room, he saw the dervish leaning against the post: he had entered while the scene was in progress. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Next morning she ordered her servants to admit none but the old dervish, and to close every door as soon as he had entered. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Those of the dervishes who escaped are supposed to be still running. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Having landed as best we could, Sir Edgar Vincent, Lady Galloway and I drove to Scutari, where we saw the howling dervishes. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Heretical as a dervish and foul as a lost woman, I have neither wealth, nor fortune, nor hope of Paradise. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z And I may tell you now that the dervish Hezar, when he left the city of late, set forth to learn how stand the minds of the tribes bordering the Euphrates towards you. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Let the dervishes go up in the tower and sing dirges for the fallen! The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Each determined dervish carried in his right hand a six foot spear, with which he hoped to do considerable damage. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z There was a band of little children who were to lie on the floor for the chief, and specially holy, dervish to walk upon at the conclusion of the howling ceremony. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z The conduct of the disciple in the presence of his master is determined by rules which differ little from those imposed upon all dervishes. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z And at last the dervish rose to his feet, clasped Burnet's hand, and followed him silently to the spot where Ibrahim was awaiting them. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z As it was Imshallah simply did an undulant glide into the watery tentacles of the lurking octopus, snuggled into his breast and prepared to spend the night reeling in a dervish dance with him. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z That familiar song devolves into foot-stomping and, eventually the dancers whirling like dervishes, stripping off their clothes and behaving in decidedly non-celibate fashion. ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Makes Folk Heroes of Killers: Jeremy Gerard 2011-12-02T03:22:03Z She had heard some firing in connection with Ramadan, and told her family that she knew that their dahabyah had been captured by dervishes and that they were keeping it from her. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Something swirled past Hester’s strained vision in the dervish dance of the debris floating in the murky water. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z The dervish mounted behind Burnet, and within twenty minutes of his rescue all three were heading southwards. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z I saw it plainly as it did its dervish dance of disappointment as we drew away. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Dressed as a dervish he passed through all these countries unhurt, but was often in danger. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z I’ve been steadily falling deeply in love with you ever since you asked me about chastity belts, whirling dervishes, 17-year locusts, and Paganini. A Death-Row Love Story 2011-10-13T09:01:24Z What are your Eastern fire-eaters, sword-swallowers, and dervishes, to a Popish priest? Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z During Ibrahim's absence Burnet had turned over in his mind, not merely the problem of getting the dervish away, but the further problem of successfully eluding pursuit. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z The moment her back was turned, they whispered and giggled and pranced more wildly than ever, turning deep bows into pirouettes, shaking out their full skirts and whirling about like dervishes. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Waving his arms like a dervish he would appear in working attire,—hair on end, light blue flannel shirt open at the neck, and make what I called a few "cursery remarks." Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z However, taken by and large, Asia is peopled neither by fire-eating jingoes nor howling dervishes. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The dervishes immediately surrounded the dead man, washed him, wrapped him in fragrant linen, and the Pasha himself sought out for him a sunny spot in the midst of a little grove. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z He had gained the top before the dervish gave any sign of movement. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Muhzin had no thought for the splendour of the funeral, no thought for the dancing dervishes, nor for the wailing women-mourners, nor for the siligdars who scattered small silver coins among the mob of mendicants. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z The negro camp meeting and the whirling of the Egyptian dervishes seem to be much alike in their manner of working up a religious excitement. Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z Ferishtah is in training for a dervish, and is anxious to feed hungry souls. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z While still half-dreaming he fancied he heard the songs of the dervishes, songs apt to make even the wakeful feel drowsy. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z "A Bahai dervish was engaged in smoking an opium pipe." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I have seen the whirling and howling dervishes at Constantinople, whose strange and frightful performances can be compared only to those of the medieval convulsionaries. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The howling dervishes sit on the ground groaning Allah, Allah. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z The dervish, duly admonished, asks which lacks in him food the more—body or soul? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Still others favoured a tedious twirling, like amorous dervishes. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z We had our jackets on, fortunately, and we took some of the linen covers off the chairs, and wrapped them round us, so that we looked like ghosts or dancing dervishes. The Palace in the Garden 2011-06-17T02:00:20.540Z Evans was a whirling dervish of a swimmer who grew up before our eyes at three Olympics. Evans eyeing 2012 Olympics in swimming comeback 2011-06-10T17:28:12Z You are indeed inspired; you dance like a dervish; you are one. Holman Hunt Masterpieces in Colour 2011-06-09T02:00:21.080Z The dervish replied that though Sakya Muni said so he did not believe it, as he lived out his seventy years and liked his dinner to the last—he lied, in fact. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z God bless the crank and the curio!—what would life in this desert be without its mullahs and its dervishes? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z At this very moment the tambourines of the dervishes are driving me nearly wild with their diabolic din. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Scarcely had he spoken these words, before an aged man, with bald head, stood before him, holding a staff in his hand, and much resembling a dervish in appearance. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z The howling dervishes have also their sanctum, where they exhibit their peculiarly unpleasant powers. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Says the dervish, “They might do so by natural law; why might not a staff loosed from the hand spring skyward as naturally as it falls to the ground?” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There are many different orders of dervishes, the underlying idea of most of them being the revival and increase of the Moslem faith. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z A double row of howling dervishes are squatting and rocking and howling after their kind, almost over my head. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z He one day was so impressed with the sight of a dervish, that he sold his possessions, and followed righteousness. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z For the next few minutes I was a very reasonable facsimile of a whirling dervish. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z "People don't realize that Ben is actually a good businessman, because they think he is such a dervish of ideas that he doesn't get business," says Diller. Ben Silverman, Advertainer 2011-03-03T22:00:00Z The early prophets were like dancing dervishes in their prophesying and influenced others to do as they did. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Sheiks are the chiefs of the societies of dervishes; cadis are the magistrates of a town or city. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Rose, known more for his whirling dervish forays to the basket than his outside stroke, set a career high with five 3-pointers. Derrick Rose leads Bulls to 5th straight victory 2010-12-12T03:56:00Z Sadly the bewildering choice available when you have a lot of money and too much time on your hands is enough to set a player's head spinning like a dervish in a revolving door. Is it time clubs added a tattoo consultants to their backroom staff? 2010-08-09T07:15:00Z On his travels around eastern Europe, the BBC's Nick Thorpe describes his three separate encounters with Sari Saltuq, a 13th Century legendary Turkish dervish. Balkan whirl 2010-05-15T11:01:00Z Unfortunately it also made him look like one of those Victorian army officers who ended up being eviscerated by the dervishes. Was it Rafael Ben?tez's beard that got Liverpool fans' goat? 2010-05-06T23:10:00Z Fetch, then, that narcotic powder* which a dervish brought me from Aracan. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The avoidance of wine, therefore, by Rechabites, Nazirites, Arab dervishes and Pythagoreans, and also of leaven in bread, is parallel to and explicable in the same way as abstention from flesh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" A dervish, who sought some grain, maharáni, told us that Jahangir was privately minded to seize all the black robes because they encouraged the Portuguese traders to greater boldness. The Great Mogul I was inside an ancient tekke, a place of worship traditionally used by Sufi Muslim dervishes. Balkan whirl 2010-05-15T11:01:00Z These were the dervishes, no doubt, but they didn't do anything—not a thing—and we didn't care to stare at them and at the dancing-floor and the rest of the suffering audience forever. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The term dervish signifies a poor man, and is the general appellation by which a religious amongst the Mahometans is named. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z If people choose to make whirling dervishes of themselves, they at least can reflect that it’s better for their livers than cane-bottom chairs. The Valiants of Virginia Look here, if you go on like a dancing dervish we shall have to provide you with a padded room! The School by the Sea And once again the green, raised coffin, with a dervish mitre at the top end: Sari Saltuq's grave. Balkan whirl 2010-05-15T11:01:00Z Even in the moonlight Kohle looked very shabby in comparison with him, like a dervish by the side of an emir. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II Ali Chelebi al Moufti, in a treatise on the subject, held that dancing after the example of the dervishes, who made it a part of their devotion, was allowable. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Some of the gunboats that shelled the dervishes from the banks of the Nile below Khartoum were built by Yarrow. Last Words What was the surprise of the Bassa when he beheld in the old dervish the man who had given the chaplet, the copper plate, and the bracelet to his three sons. The Grey Fairy Book The Bektashis are one of the most remarkable of the dervish orders in Islam, closely associated with the Jannisary fighters who brought Islam to the Balkans in the Middle Ages. Balkan whirl 2010-05-15T11:01:00Z Two of these pretty pilgrims transgressed in this way four times, and at last the dervish came and stood before them. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu If they had had the abandon of dervishes, they might have rushed our camp long before. The Unveiling of Lhasa A world of life is in the air; the flakes dance as they come down, like dervishes in a frenzy. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life This bowl of a helmet Fergus sets upon his head, tilted a little back, so that he looks like a dervish. Hempfield A Novel The local sanctity of Venasa has been perpetuated by the Moslem veneration for Haji Bektash, the founder of the order of dervishes to which the Janissaries used in great part to belong. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Christian hermits, in retiring from the world, have sought, as far as possible, the same mental condition; but for a lifetime, not, like the dervishes, for an hour. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu You'll all be spinning like a top, dancing, dancing like dervishes. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Friday is the day for religious service with the howling dervishes. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 The maniac bent his body like a dervish in the last exercises of his religion, and the ragged musicians forced a more extreme uproar from their instruments. Bye-Ways The chief ceremonies take place in some large open spot round which are erected the tents of the khedive, of great state officials, and of the dervishes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The race was Mohammedan from one point of view, for it was connected with the dervishes, Mohammedans of fanatical creed. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Topal sank down with a groan, and Yanath whirled for an instant like a crazy dervish; then he ran at the shelves and began hacking at the glass with his sword, screeching blasphemously. Red Nails Facts had to be faced at last, like the dervishes at Omdurman, and a plan of campaign decided on in the event of momentary defeat. The Heart of a Woman We went to the quarries, visited groups of tombs of sheikhs and dervishes, and the mosque of Amer. What We Saw in Egypt From this time, however, the dervishes ceased to trouble the Abyssinians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Presently a dervish made the circuit of the empty arena, warning, by a solemn gesture, those who had seated or half-seated themselves upon the balustrade that the attitude was not allowed. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The dervishes surrounded the body at once, washed it, wrapped it in fragrant linen, and the Pasha himself selected a sunny spot under the trees. The Golden Age in Transylvania These bold words were reported to the Sultan, and the Grand Signior summoned the Omarite dervish to the palace, and shut himself up alone with him till late at night. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Except in a few cases in India, none of these orders of faqirs or dervishes adopt the ochre garments of the Sadhus. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches After gallantly fighting for eighteen months he was compelled by the defection of his troops to surrender on the 21st of April 1884 to Karamalla, the dervish amir of the province. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The band of the dervishes sends forth a high wail, accompanied by a rumble. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The Muslims were divided between adherents of the Sunni branch and over 200,000 followers of a dervish order known as Bektashi, an offshoot of the Shia branch. Area Handbook for Albania The pen of the dervish in reply to the question of the favorite as to how many hours she had to live now wrote down "¼." The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The order which is most commonly seen in Afghanistan is that known as Malang, or wandering dervish. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches The country then relapsed into its original barbarous condition, and dervish influence was nominal only. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It is safe to say that to many Americans Cairo is only a confused memory of donkeys and dragomans, mosquitoes and dervishes, and mosques, mosques, mosques! Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Bektashi—A dervish order, offshoot of the Shia branch of Islam, emphasizing abstinence from violence and charity to all people. besa—A pledge to faithfully fulfill an obligation or promise. Area Handbook for Albania "Allah hath sent me to thee," said the dervish, in a deep, hollow voice, which had lost all its sonorousness. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Now the dervish was a holy man, and experienced in prophecies and the signs of the stars. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace He arrived on the 7th of August and captured it by storm, the dervishes losing 250 killed and 50 prisoners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" For fifteen days all the drawing-rooms of Cologne seemed to be filled with dancing dervishes. Josephine Makers of History He had not been there long before he perceived three old dervishes coming slowly up the street. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Having said these words, the dervish turned him about, and without so much as saluting the Padishah, without even taking off his slippers before him, he withdrew, not even asking for a reward. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The dervish, Mustapha, however, checked the thanks of the young men. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace Having strongly entrenched himself, Parsons beat off, with heavy loss to the dervishes, two impetuous attacks made on the 28th by Ahmed Fedil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" He admires the royal eminence of the dervish or religious ascetic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 We are dervishes, and are coming from Basra in order to speak to the caliph on matters of consequence. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Turkish crescent had won an abiding-place among the constellations of Europe, there dwelt in the Turkish dominions a worthy dervish, Haji Begtash by name. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Indeed, the Boodie exhibits symptoms of insanity, and dances round him with a vivacity that a dervish might be proud of. Portia or By Passions Rocked The dervish loss was 500 killed, while the Egyptians had 24 killed and 118 wounded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" All the cobblers, tailors, dervishes, merchants, and so forth, who appear as the characters in those tales, are people who are to be met with every day in the streets. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Ali thanked the good dervish for his offer. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors "I have been expecting you," said the dervish, when they came up to him. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The gray old man, their leader, went Throughout his spinning fellowship, And reverently to the ear, Of every dervish circling near, He spake a soft encouragement. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise Although checked, the dervishes were not discouraged, and continued to press upon the frontier in frequent raids, and thus in many bloody skirmishes the fighting qualities of the Egyptian troops were developed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" At Monasta, a fanatical dervish, who professed to be inspired, killed a Christian boy of fourteen years of age, and a certain Guiseppe Thomaso, an Italian emigrant, in the open street. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Ali, however, could discern neither the caliph nor Gulhyndi; and turning to the old dervish, with his face quite pale, he asked, "Where are they?" Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors And so it came about that innumerable children were brought to the worthy dervish. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Billy Sunday, a sort of howling dervish, sprung from heaven knows where, brays to huge crowds a militarist gospel. The Forerunners His cavalry, under Major M. A. C. B. Fenwick, went out to look for Sidney’s force, and were surprised by a large number of dervishes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Before retiring for the night, the dervish led the prayers, just as he had done at sunset. Across Asia on a Bicycle "Why, we have nothing to fear from them to night," replied the dervish, "as they are making merry at the cadi's expense, in consequence of the great fortune which his daughter has met." Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors The dervish raised his hand to his ear to signify that he would prefer to listen. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries This goes so far that in Persia and Turkey dervish orders are classified as bā-shar‘, “with law,” and bï-shar‘, “without law.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" These troops were at once despatched to capture the dervish posts at Asabri and El Fasher, which they did with small loss. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" We had not been settled long before the ishan, or itinerant dervish, was called in to drive away the evil spirits, which the “devil’s carts” might possibly have brought. Across Asia on a Bicycle Ali shuddered, when the dervish began to break out into loud laughter, and throwing off his cap and cloak, stood before him in princely splendour as Haroun al Raschid. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Mahmoud accepted the gift of the dervish, and put it where he put his other curiosities; but he did not think of it for very long, and gradually it escaped his memory altogether. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries In the fraternities, then, all are dervishes, cloistered or lay; those whose faith is so great that God has given them miraculous powers—and there are many—are walïs; begging friars are fakirs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The dervishes first came in contact with the Egyptian cavalry on the Nile near Akasha, on the 1st of May, and were repulsed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Our dervish acquaintance was a man of more than average intelligence. Across Asia on a Bicycle He talked the jargon of the agitator with the enthusiasm of a dervish and the vernacular of the mine and the shop and the forge. In the Heart of a Fool The mob tore the dervish to pieces and distributed his bleeding limbs as trophies, and then, like wild beasts who have scented blood, they attacked the castles of the great men. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries In Deng there were quite a number of dervishes and negroes. In Desert and Wilderness It had been attacked by a dervish force on the 25th of August, and was expecting another attack when Kitchener arrived and probably saved it from destruction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" I'm as busy as a whirling dervish in a revolving door.” Status Quo He has in tow a Persian dervish, who sticks knives through his mouth, and drinks melted lead, and bites red-hot pokers, and a lot of such things. Carmen Ariza The dervish gave them meat and drink, and washed their feet, and after they had enjoyed his hospitality he offered to conduct them all the way to the gates of Seleucia. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries With little Miss Rawlinson I have escaped from dervish captivity and we are hiding in the jungle. In Desert and Wilderness He encountered 4000 dervishes under the amir Saadalla outside the town, and after a desperate fight, in which he lost 50 killed and 80 wounded, defeated them and occupied the town on the 22nd. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The whirling dance of the Eastern dervish is well known. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development And so Larry Beers brought his swami and dervish to the Ames mansion, and caused his hostess to be well advertised in the newspapers the following day. Carmen Ariza When Seleucia came in sight, the merchant began thanking the dervish for his good offices. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries After the battle, I heard from the dervish prisoners that it is called Ogeloguen, but even they were not certain, as they venture into this region only for slaves. In Desert and Wilderness The dervishes left 500 dead on the field, among whom were four amirs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Some spun round on their feet with incredible rapidity, as is related of the dervishes. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Or did he simply use a pious, impressive form of speech to awe the spectators, and give them the notion that he had as much traffic with God as any African mystery-man or Mohammedan dervish? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) But the dervish would not even accept his thanks. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Kali trembled all over, for he well remembered his horrible slavery with the dervishes; he was certain that this was their camping place. In Desert and Wilderness The dervish loss in the two actions was estimated at 1000 killed and wounded, while the Egyptian casualties were only 4 killed and 29 wounded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Let me give you a sketch of a noted dervish, or saint, who has just passed away. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It My brother Ali was handed over to some dervishes at the Mosque of Yéni-Chéïr, and I was sent to Constantinople. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Ye nations of the half-moon! now is the time when the song of the dervishes, and the scimitar, and the dirk, and the Kuran, can help no more! The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries In the huts you will find a great many human bones, but do not fear infection from the corpses, as after the dervishes there were ants there, which drove us from the place. In Desert and Wilderness Jew or Greek, there are only two religious possibilities—fetish-dances and spinning dervishes don't count—the Renaissance meant the revival of these two influences, and since the sixteenth century they have both been increasing steadily. Dreamers of the Ghetto The house of Ali might be supposed to be rather a religious one, for the mother of the family has performed the pilgrimage to Mecca and one of the sons is a howling dervish. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It When we behold hordes of ancient legislators, posing as dervishes of moderation, secretly and openly breaking the prohibition laws of their own making.... Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Mahmoud commanded that nine purses of gold should be given to the dervish; he gave him also the heads of Ali and of Ali's three sons. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries When the news spread that on board were children who had escaped from dervish slavery Stas became an object of general curiosity and universal praise. In Desert and Wilderness Upon their level floors the heat-devils danced all the long days like armies of phantom dervishes gone mad with their interminable leapings and whirlings. When the West Was Young Here we were introduced to a young bride, wife of a brother of the dervish. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It They look on me as a sort of dervish, because I do not drink arrack, nor use weapons of war, nor take men to guard my house. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 Then, quite suddenly, the dervish raised his fingers from the table, and the goblet immediately stopped. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The Mahdi is only before Khartûm and you see how foolishly Chamis chattered when he told you that the army of dervishes reached as far as Assuan. In Desert and Wilderness There the news of foreign events was brought by the merchant-caravans and sought by the dervishes, who found, in their recitals in the temples and public places, a means of subsistence. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery Their preparation is considered a special science, which demands special study and is practised by so-called magicians or fortune-tellers, but also by dervishes, and even by priests. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It From the house of law the dervish Khalid wends his way to that of science, and from the house of science he passes on to that of metaphysics. The Book of Khalid "That signifies the first letter of his name," said the dervish—"G!" The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries How could he look into the eyes of his father or Mr. Rawlinson, if the dervishes after her death should fling her to the hyenas. In Desert and Wilderness His arms were still tightly bound to his sides, and he lashed out with his sandaled feet, swung his shoulders like battering rams, whirled in a dervish dance. The Great Dome on Mercury It was a very popular victory, as was attested by the leaping, howling dervishes in the grand stand and on the lawn, but there were some who took no part in the demonstration. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories But the brigands can not harm a dervish; my penury is my amulet––my salvation. The Book of Khalid "Where does the fellow live?" he inquired of the dervish. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Smain's dervishes, or savage negroes who, escaping from their native villages, sought protection from the dervishes in the inaccessible thickets of the hills? In Desert and Wilderness Adjoining the west end of the church is the fine cloister of the Teké of dervishes, probably on the lines of the old monastery. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Now, having seen the Bisharin, you can imagine what dervishes looked like. Round the Wonderful World Rising therefrom, Khalid would teach him how to dance like a dervish, and Najib whirls and whirls until he falls again in that grave. The Book of Khalid Sikham," said Ali to the dervish, "I feel the approach of evil days. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries For the dervishes this would not be enough, but he assumed that the rest were concealed in the high grass. In Desert and Wilderness He became the disciple of a fakir, or dervish, near Khartoum. General Gordon A Christian Hero He whirled like a howling dervish, grunting, snorting—unseeing, and almost unseen in a nimbus of dust, strap ends, and flying pine needles. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse They dance their dervish dance, these people, even like Khalid’s little Najib, and fall into their sand-graves, and fold their arms and smile: “We are in love––or we are out of it.” The Book of Khalid He used even to send occasionally for the nimetullahita dervish who had been living a long time in the fortress, and question him concerning the future. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Truly, did you say that you had escaped from dervish captivity and are hiding in the jungle? In Desert and Wilderness The humming of a large black fly that had blundered in through the open casement and the closed curtains resounded in his ears like a dervish chorus chanting themselves into an ecstasy. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Another version of this Oriental legend gives it as follows: The dervish Hadji Omar was driven by his enemies out of Mocha into the desert, where they expected he would die of starvation. All About Coffee Now, the gentry of Islam, the sheikhs and ulema, would hear this lack-beard dervish, as he was called. The Book of Khalid Ali beckoned to the eunuchs to take the dervish away again. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries He would write on each kite their names, how they had escaped from the hands of the dervishes, where they were, and whither they were bound. In Desert and Wilderness They were holy men, he knew, dervishes dedicated to death. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The plague meanwhile progressing, the daughter of the King of Mocha fell ill and her father had her carried to the home of the dervish who cured her. All About Coffee I talk to them through holy men and dervishes. The Book of Khalid And with that the herculean old man flung himself haughtily on his horse, and the dervish, seizing the steed's bridle, began to lead him along the mountain path among the rugged rocks and bowlders. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries I know also from the prisoners that along the western and southern frontiers greater or smaller hordes of dervishes are prowling and you might therefore easily fall into their hands. In Desert and Wilderness Arrows flew at them from the Tartar lines, and in an instant it seemed the dervishes vanished as they crumpled into the tall grass. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel But as this young princess was of rare beauty, after having cured her, the good dervish tried to carry her off. All About Coffee And now, Khalid is neither dervish nor philosopher, 120 but a man of business with a capital of twenty-five dollars in his pocket. The Book of Khalid He loves not the dervishes, because they would always be teaching. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The little girl chattered yet for half an hour, after which she fell asleep and Stas meditated further about the dervishes and quinine. In Desert and Wilderness By going joyfully to their deaths, the dervishes reminded the Mamelukes that each warrior who died here today would be a mujahid, one who fell in holy war for Islam. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel "Oh, Schadheli, my dear master," cried the unfortunate dervish one day; "if the things which happened to me at Mocha were destined, was it worth the trouble to give me a bowl to come here?" All About Coffee Unlike his brother dervishes, he is clean and proud of it, too. The Book of Khalid Earlier in that year, 1894, fighting took place between the Italian forces and dervishes in Abyssinia, which ended in success for the Italian arms. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers It might indeed be dervishes, but it also might be Arabs from the ocean coast, who made great expeditions into the interior for ivory and slaves. In Desert and Wilderness Let us not forget to mention a brief visit to those strange fanatics, the whirling dervishes, in witnessing whose singular movements one is at a loss whether to sigh or to laugh. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months About 1510 it reached Grand Cairo in Egypt, where the dervishes from Yemen, living in a district by themselves, drank coffee on the nights they intended to spend in religious devotion. All About Coffee The papers on the desk started to slide, slithering onto the floor, danced a crazy dervish across the room. Empire The Magi were educated in astronomy, astrology, and alchemy, and many of the dervishes have ever been renowned for their acuteness, sense of justice, great powers of observation, and good judgment. History of Education These had nothing in common with the dervishes who injured their trade. In Desert and Wilderness The howling dervishes, seen in another temple, form a different branch of a similar style of worship or fanaticism; if possible, still more senseless than that already described. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months He goes through his mummeries as honestly as a parson through his sermons or a dervish through his dances—it's all one, and we must allow for it in the make-up of human nature. The Art of Disappearing In the shadow cast by one of these was seated a holy man or dervish, as he was called, who motioned to the youth to sit beside him. The Olive Fairy Book Tuesday, 14th.—Visited the mosque at Pera, to witness the ceremonies of the dancing dervishes. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 They knew previously that a great army—not an Egyptian now but an English one—had started southward against the dervishes under the command of General Wolseley. In Desert and Wilderness The dervishes wear their hair long, which adds to their crazy appearance, by covering their faces with it during the jerking process, the hair flying back and forth with each movement. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The three men on the bases were dancing about like dervishes in the hope of rattling the newcomer. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Those wandering dervishes of the industrial world, the hobo, the tramp—the entire family of Weary Willies and Tired Timothys—will no longer have even an imaginary excuse for their troubled and troublesome existence. The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer In one of these galleries hung the cloaks of the dervishes; and in another was posted the music, consisting of a drum, Turkish flutes, and a dulcimer. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 Fortunately the giant mastiff aroused such admiration in the emir himself and in all the dervishes that no one lifted a hand against him. In Desert and Wilderness Thunder—In the squall—The dervish—Sailing consort—Poor little boy!—Grateful presents—The dingey’s mission—Remedy—Rise and work. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" Joe seized Mabel in his arms and whirled her about the room like a dancing dervish, paying no heed to her laughing protests. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour A prominent Nationalist has alluded to the Mullah and his dervishes as "brave men striving to be free." Pan-Islam As each dervish entered, he saluted the chief priest; besides whom, there were five other priests, seated in various situations close to the railing. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 The four sides were surrounded by the compact ranks of dervishes. In Desert and Wilderness The top, spinning its fastest, is said to “sleep”—and the dancing dervish is “still.” Humorous Ghost Stories He fell upon us like a howling dervish who had fed fanaticisms on locusts and wild honey. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance It was done too much on the cheap; that little force was attacked by an overwhelming force of dervishes while out on the grazing grounds affording moral and material support. Pan-Islam Among the Christians, he is said to have been a vast and ferocious giant; while the Mussulmans will have him to be a holy dervish. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 Near Fashoda, indeed, lay Abyssinia, with which the dervishes likewise waged war. In Desert and Wilderness Still Sir Charles Wilson went on past Tuti Island, until he made sure that Khartoum had fallen and was in the hands of the dervishes. The Life of Gordon, Volume II All the dancing dervishes of politics rushed upon the scene to amaze a bewildered public with fantastical gyrations. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 He was mobbed to death by the herdsmen with the rifles which a benevolent Government had given them for protection against the dervishes. Pan-Islam Then the dervish called after him, "Many persons have already fetched the Ketlafgat from us, and it has always come back to us: it will return from thee also." Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers The children now could be convinced with what reverence the dervishes surrounded their prophet, for crowds eagerly followed him and scratched up the places which his feet touched. In Desert and Wilderness I do not see the fun of being caught here to walk about the streets for years as a dervish with sandalled feet. The Life of Gordon, Volume II But it remained for Miss Larrabee to sort out ten or a dozen of these "howling swells" who belonged to the strictest social caste in town, and call them "howling dervishes." In Our Town I was much impressed by the defences in barbed wire and thorn trees considered necessary to ward off the onslaught of dervishes by men who knew them better than I did. Pan-Islam I have certainly mistaken you, as I thought you were a dervish; therefore I am displeased that you speak so disrespectfully of the mighty merchant Jussuf, talking of him as if he were your equal. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers The sun rose at six o'clock, and the bustle among the dervishes began. In Desert and Wilderness He combined the activity of a whirling dervish with the technique of an earthquake. Lady Luck As the excitement became strong, the head of the dervishes walked along the inner circle, exciting those to more violence who already seemed the most violent. The Bertrams When tired of this, the Medicine Man stopped in the middle of the apartment, and all at once began using his rattles to the utmost, and dancing with the vigor of a howling dervish. Camp-fire and Wigwam Immediately the other dervishes surrounded him, and screamed out, as from a cave, "Glutton! impudent creature! avaricious man!" Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers The dervishes themselves said that whole nations had died of it. In Desert and Wilderness “I’m sure,” replied Herb, as he deftly slipped a bit of ice down Jimmy’s back, “that in a minute you’ll be dancing about like a howling dervish.” The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery How the dervishes there spun and shook, going through their holy exercises with admirable perseverance, that I must tell. The Bertrams "I know," said Hamilton grimly, "something between a Welsh revivalist and a dancing dervish." The Keepers of the King's Peace As the Princess uttered these words, a dervish, worn with age and bowed down by infirmity, appeared among the thickets of the forest. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Stas understood also that Abyssinia could be reached only from the southern side where that country borders on a great wilderness and not from the eastern boundary which was carefully guarded by dervishes. In Desert and Wilderness At Fashoda, a little farther up the Nile, he found something more surprising, and perhaps more romantic, than the wildest dervish of the desert solitudes. Lord Kitchener And even the dervishes welcome us to their most sacred rites, with excellent coffee, and a loan of rush-bottomed chairs. The Bertrams Vambéry, the traveller, penetrated it disguised as a dervish, after years of study of the language and habits of the Mohammedans, yet he barely escaped with life. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality "Thou hast done right, O Misnar," said the dervish, "to give the greatest honour to Allah, for to Him alone belongs all honour." Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers That which the muzalem told him, that the Mahdi commanded but once, was reiterated by all the dervishes. In Desert and Wilderness I confess that, at the time, knowing the Arab indifference to exactness in dates, I did not credit his assertion that Marchand had reached Fashoda six weeks before the dervishes attacked him. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Moreover, let it be said to their immortal praise, that the dervishes of Cairo never ask for backsheish. The Bertrams Macnooder, whirling around like a dervish on the stage top, conducted the next verse. The Varmint "And could not I," said the dervish, "learn from you your history, when you appear to be so well qualified for giving it?" Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers The Abyssinians are black and wild, but Christians and foes of the dervishes. In Desert and Wilderness With great alacrity the dervishes on shore replied, if indeed they did not fire first. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan So Bertram and Wilkinson had their coffee with sundry other travelling Britons who were there; and then each, with his chair in his hand went into the dervishes' hall. The Bertrams We know the almost hypnotic state of the whirling dervishes and the raptures in the savage war dances; all this in milder form is involved in every passionate dance. Psychology and Social Sanity Imagine, O respectable dervish, my astonishment: it almost deprived me of my senses! Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers In fact, Kali, having as his only weapon Gebhr's Sudânese sword, must die of starvation, or if he did not fall again into the captivity of the dervishes would become the prey of wild animals. In Desert and Wilderness The dervishes allowed the place to fall into ruins, only maintaining a very small garrison—less than 100 men—to raid for grain to supply Omdurman with, and to collect revenue from the native boats. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan And it was remarked that men came in as dervishes who belonged to various ordinary pursuits and trades; there were soldiers in the circle, and, apparently, common labourers. The Bertrams The dervish warriors had come upon them at an unlucky time, and their insolent, threatening air had roused the quiet British blood in Frank’s veins. In the Mahdi's Grasp This, venerable dervish, is the whole of my history. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Was it her fault or could she be held accountable because she was the relative of the dervish, Mohammed Ahmed? In Desert and Wilderness "If they had had cannon," said the dervish skipper to me, "they fired so well that they would have sunk our steamers." Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bertram rushed forward as though to stay the infuriate fanatic, but one or two of the dervishes who stood around gently prevented him, without speaking a word. The Bertrams No dervish could take you for a white man, unless he was mad. In the Mahdi's Grasp Halechalbe, seeing the prediction of the dervish fulfilled, being inspired with confidence and affected with his subject, again began his history, and made not the smallest variations, even in the expressions. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Now in Port Said as well as in Alexandria, Cairo, and in the whole of Egypt nothing was the subject of more discussion than the Mahdi's insurrection and the cruelties of the dervishes. In Desert and Wilderness When the other gunboats got up, what with cannon, quick-firing guns, and Maxims brought to bear upon the dervish camp, it was speedily wrecked and torn. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan |
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