How To Use Dervish In A Sentence
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Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith.
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She could dance like a dervish, march like a soldier, or hop like a one-legged pirate with a parrot on his shoulder.
THE ONLY GAME
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He was gazing at me like a dervish on hashish, clutching my wrist, his eyes burning with the flame of pure barminess, as I sat open-mouthed, the chicken leg poised at my ashen lips.
THE NUMBERS
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Daughters of time, the hypocritic Days , muffled and dumb are like barefoot dervishes.
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In order, as it would seem, to keep a fighting formation that would impose respect on the bands of Dervishes on the Kerreri Hills, he adopted the formation known as echelon of brigades from the left.
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
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But the “Gens æterna in quâ nemo nascitur” (Pliny v. 17) managed to appear even in Al-lslam, as Fakirs,, Dervishes, Súfis, etc.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Soon he was the hero, not only of city guilds and dervishes, but also of the swordsmen, the young blades of the army, the bahadurs.
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He went on to say that “dervish” does not denote those persons who wander about, spending their nights and days in fighting and folly; rather, He said, the term designates those who are completely severed from all but God, who cleave to His laws, are firm in His Faith, loyal to His Covenant, and constant in worship.
Memorials of the Faithful
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Dancers throw themselves against the wall, and over it, in a kind of athletic abandon; the driving rhythm of Ravel's Bolero impels them, and they dance like dervishes, pouring energy into every gesture.
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He spun like a dervish, turning eccentric rings as the blindness overwhelmed him, then dropped to the floor.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Formed while they were still at school, this band of frenetic performers combine the wild sounds of ska, mariachi, polka, cumbia and hip-hop into one swirling dervish of sound and vision.
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Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city.
Three Empires on the Nile
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Mystic orders and dervishes played an important role in their lives and dervish lodges provided food and shelter along the trade routes.
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Soon he is digging like a whirling dervish, the impressive show ending with another frantic leap.
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However, I do know more about dervish people than you, so shut your trap.
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Right now, Dervishton and Falkland were gallantly arguing over who should fetch her a new glass of ratafia.
The Laird Who Loved Me
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Like the dervish knights whom Adam had seen setting out from their monastery, their motto was `Ride and die!
KARA KUSH
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I saw straight in front of me a khor with rocks on either side filled with a dense mass of Dervishes packed around three flags, yelling defiance at us.
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She could dance like a dervish, march like a soldier, or hop like a one-legged pirate with a parrot on his shoulder.
THE ONLY GAME
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The drum beat gets faster and faster, the elephants are hoovering food, and the blue-suited mahouts whirl in the rain like dervishes.
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I forget which band was on stage, but a large number of celebrities felt the need to get round the front and frug away like mad, drug-addled dervishes to the vogueish young sounds that make today's youth do the hippy-hippy shake.
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The drum beat gets faster and faster, the elephants are hoovering food, and the blue-suited mahouts whirl in the rain like dervishes.
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Wolseley was promoted general and elevated to the peerage as a result but, three years later, his relief expedition failed to reach Khartoum in time to rescue Charles Gordon from the dervishes.
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One is to incorporate one or two swivels into the snood or present your bait so that it flutters in the tide rather than spinning like a whirling Dervish.
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As for the cavalry and camelry, spread over a wide front, their duty was to search for the enemy and make sure the troops should have ample warning of the approach of any dervishes.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
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Their path is an attempt to transcend the ego and achieve unity with the divine, with the help of a sheikh (also called pir) and of prayer, meditation and, in the case of the whirling dervishes, dancing.
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You must see these Sufi dervishes go whirl round and round in great devotion.
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It begins with snowdrops and ends with blackbirds celebrating choral evensong, and the rookeries, in whirling dervish mood.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy
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Cromer feared losing Kassala to the Mahdists, but that did not mean he wanted to fight the eight thousand Dervishes at Dongola.
Three Empires on the Nile
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_howling_ dervishes; all our religion consisted in howling like jackals or hyenas, with all our might, until we fell down in real or pretended convulsions.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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While Pakistan beckoned us with its antique wooden chests, Turkey had me mesmerised with its flying dervishes.
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There, often with Susan Einzig as his partner, his nervous energy became concentrated, dervish-like, into a trance-like state.
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A jury has recommended that hand rails or banisters be installed in houses at an inquest into the tragic death of a former member of Dervish on Christmas Day.
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Five dollars would make me chirk up; ten would start a slight smile; twenty would put a beam in mine eye; fifty would cause me to utter shrill cries of unadulterated joys and a hundred would inspire me to actions like unto those of a whirling dervish.
The Valley of the Giants
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The general opening triumph remains largely in tact, but he dampens the drums, doubles certain passages, equalizes, and transforms it into a loping choral dervish.
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Singers Cindy Wilson (wearing a belted mini-dress and whipping her curtain of cornsilk hair like a dervish) and Kate Pierson (old-school burlesque in hot pants, flamingo-pink ruffled blouse and corset) have lost none of their vocal power, even if they both seemed a little exhausted by the idea of trotting out their 1990 hit "Roam.
On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com
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The overwhelming musical score and the too consistent whirling dervish camera only work to expose the film's desperate bid to keep its core vapidity under wraps.
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We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.
Les Miserables
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It is that maelstrom that gives our galaxy its spiraling, dervishly outflung arms.
Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song'
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The early shorts show off his great dervishing twirls and kicks.
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The Egyptian cavalry under Colonel Broadwood and the camelry under Major Tudway, making a wide détour, got close to the dervish left, and engaged the enemy occasionally with rifles and Maxims.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
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Bootlbac, the drumbeater! 'and this led off to the howl of Areep, the dervish; and this was followed by the shriek of Zeel, the garlic-seller; and the waul of Krooz el Krazawik, the carrier; and the complainings of
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
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He knew exactly what would happen: Dervishton and Falkland would spend the entire ride to the Snaid trying to outjockey one another, which would gratify Caitlyn Hurst’s vanity to no end.
The Laird Who Loved Me
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We're not only talking modern dance, we're looking at all of dance's forms like capoeira, raves and whirling dervishes.
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His bold, expressive pictures are unmatched in the Islamic world, showing scenes of nomadic life; dancing and music-making demons, and Sufi dervishes.
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In medieval Islam, many dervishes became members of mystical or Sufi brotherhoods, which grew up all over the Islamic world from the 12th century onwards.
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My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear.
Fiancée
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The first of the guests had returned from the stables, and Caitlyn heard her name mentioned by Lord Dervishton.
The Laird Who Loved Me
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He became the patron saint of the Mevlevi Sufi order, whose ceremonies incorporated music and whirling dances in special dress (from which came their common description as whirling dervishes).
C. The Mongol Empire and Its Successors
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Omdurman; but by crossing the river he practically cut himself off from the Dervish base, and now had only a desert behind him; for we had taken over Kassala from the Italians, and the Egyptian battalion there, and a large force of friendly Arabs, would prevent him from retiring up the banks of the Atbara.
With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman