Zohrab the HostageBaudry's European Library, 1833 - 436 Seiten |
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Afrasiab Allah Amima answered appeared Asterabad bastinado beard beautiful blessed breast called chief executioner commands countenance court daughter death dervish eunuch exclaimed eyes face father Fatteh Fatteh Ali favour fear feelings felt ferashes firman gate gholam give Grand Vizir Hajji Hajji Ibrahim Khan hand harem head hear heard heart horse humpback Hussein immediately Khajeh Bashi king king of kings king's Kipchak knew lady length look maiden manner Mariam Mashallah master Mazanderan mind mistress mother Nasakchi never once passed Persian person possession present prince Princess prisoner Prophet racter royal sacrifice Sadek scarcely seated seen seized servant Shah Shah's Shir Khan Beg Shiraz slave soon soul speak stood struck Tehran thing thou thought throw tone took truth Turcomans turned turret uncle voice whilst whole wish woman women words wretch youth Zaul Khan Zohrab Khan Zulma
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Seite 58 - ... fury when he saw that there was hesitation in obeying his commands. The ragged skin, which fell in furrows down his cheeks, began to bloat ; the eyes seemed to roll in blood ; and the whole frame, from which in general all circulation seemed to fly, wore a purple hue ; he would have darted off from his seat, and not only have executed the fatal sentence upon his victim himself, but would have extended his revengeful fury to those who had refused to be the ministers of it, had not the Nasakchi...
Seite 57 - ... one skull, by the head of the king ! only one skull.' Whether acting under the influence of an eunuch's waywardness, or whether the king was struck by the coincidence of the chief huntsman's exposition, 'one skull, by the head of the king,' is not to be explained ; but certain it is that he yielded at once to the temptation of spilling blood, which was circulating in the fullest vigour throughout his frame, and exclaimed, * One head thou wantest ?' ' Yes,* said the huntsman, * yes, one head;...
Seite 57 - The rough forester, little expecting such a reception, stood like one impaled, with his tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth, and at first could scarcely utter beyond his
Seite 359 - Send for the humpback!" and looking upward to the summit of an enormous pine tree, which had been struck by lightning, he said, " and bid one of the executioner's gang be in readiness at hand with a rope." An awful fear ran through the by-standers as they heard these words, strongly enhanced by the wildness of the scenery around them. There sat the king, coiled up as it were in the folds of his power, like the dragon of the wilderness spreading terror around ; above him reared the towering stem of...
Seite 266 - Heaven forbid," said the poor wretch. " We know nothing of him. By the head of the Shah — by the salt of the King — your slave falls from the skies. What news is this ! " ' By this time the deputy of the Khajeh Bashi had also been brought in, and he being a man of nerve, said, with all the humility possible, that if any thing of the sort had taken place, it must have been when there was so much difficulty in making way to the turret chamber through the Banou's apartment, when the Shah last visited...
Seite 412 - Sadek, with a gloomy determination overspreading his features, inspected the fatal dagger — a long Georgian khanjar, made of the highest tempered steel. Not daring to speak, scarcely to breathe, they communicated to each other by signs. They did not take off their clothes; both had prepared themselves for immediate flight as soon as the deed was over, and horses were ready saddled waiting for them at a moment's notice. ' The hour of midnight, for which they had been watching with nervous expectation,...
Seite 362 - ... future feast to the vultures, and an intended beacon to the enemy, warning him not to trust for the future to a traitor's interference. ' The whole scene was full of awe, and as the blast swept through the forest glades, and agitated the tops of the highest trees, the withered branches of the pine creaked, and as it were moaned over the forsaken corpse which they bore. The uplifted faces of the assembled crowd, looking their last at the well-known form of the creature who not an hour before had...
Seite 33 - We are really like mice in a cage," exclaimed Mariam, as she surveyed the rocks which surrounded them. " We might try to get out, but it would be in vain ; for, excepting at the entrance on the other side, where the guards are posted, there does not seem to be a hole to put one's head into." " No," said the Princess, " never was there seen a more complete anderoon than this ; 'tis one of the stupendous works of Allah ! See the rocks rise round us like a serperdeh*." ' As they proceeded they came...
Seite 56 - Persia, after a great and successful hunting party, in which game of all descriptions, such as antelopes, deer, wild goats, boars, and wild asses were slain, to erect a pillar, upon which the heads of such animals were fixed, either in niches, or on exterior hooks. There is a specimen of one such pillar now to be seen at Guladun near Ispahan, the record of a hunt of the famous Shah Ismael, which, notwithstanding the lapse of centuries, still exhibits numerous skulls and horns of wild animals.