How To Use Moorish In A Sentence
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To this fusion are added Gothic style elements in the legs (a rounded arch above and a trefoil below each), colorful French ceramics with a Moorish flavor, and exotic serpents on either side of the ceramic cylinder.
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The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up.
The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death
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The alley up which we were moving was planted on each side with that remarkable tree or plant, for I know not which to call it, the giant aloe, which is called in Spanish, pita, and in Moorish, gursean.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish.
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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Seen from the outside the spacious terraces led through wide Moorish archways into luxurious suites.
FINAL RESORT
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Now let your worships turn your eyes to that tower that appears there, which is supposed to be one of the towers of the alcazar of Saragossa, now called the now called the Aljaferia; that lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaze from thence upon the road to France, and seek consolation in her captivity by thinking of Paris and her husband.
Don Quixote
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Here we start from Mérida, where the Roman-Moorish 'alcazar' towers proudly yet.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
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Spanish architecture shows Moorish influence.
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He owns a palatial Moorish villa on Spain's ritzy Costa del Sol and a ski chalet in Saint Moritz, Switzerland.
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Moorish alcayde and her lover, when closely pursued, threw themselves in despair.
The Alhambra
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They remind one of those by Hine, Newman, and the rest, in the old "blackie" days, and are often little masterpieces of comic ingenuity -- as may be seen in "Shooting over an Extensive Moor," where a man is discharging his weapon over the portly figure of a Moorish gentleman.
The History of "Punch"
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The cavernous space pays homage to Moorish decor with its elaborately motifed terracotta plasterwork, ceramic tiling and large earthenware pots.
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While Savall rang the changes with three medieval bowed instruments - the rebab, rebec, and vielle - Psonis played the santur zither, the Moorish guitar, and a selection of Middle-Eastern drums: the human voice soared above a subtly-shifting kaleidoscope of instrumental colour.
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The elaborate overall ornament is in the Moorish tradition, while the details of the decoration - chrysanthemums and long-tailed birds, possibly quetzals - are derived from Chinese porcelain examples and local fauna respectively.
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During the time of the siege, the young Moorish and Spanish cavaliers vied with each other in extravagant bravadoes.
The Alhambra
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The lead escort pointed with his torch down the Moorish colonnade to some open glass doors at the far end.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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But her last vestige of power had departed, her most loyal followers had been induced to abandon her cause after the defection of the kalif himself, and Sobeyah, who had been the most powerful of all the Moorish sultanas of Cordova, was now forced in humiliation to withdraw from active participation in worldly affairs and to spend the few remaining years of her life in strict seclusion in a lonely cloister.
Women of the Romance Countries
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Wide Moorish arches, high vaulted ceilings, marble floors, Italian mosaic swimming pools; it'll be like a palace.
FINAL RESORT
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
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There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave.
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Strangely enough, it is very well worth doing, for, though it is even more factitiously Moorish than the Alcazar, it is of almost as great beauty and of greater dignity.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Although it appears that Ransom made Moorish fretwork from 1885 to 1898, his furniture work was apparently limited and concentrated toward the end of his active period.
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Palms, ancient olives, oleanders, plus white walls and a bunch of tall palm trees lend this 15 th-century masseria a Moorish air.
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The property is sumptuously decorated in Moorish style throughout, with mosaic-tiled fountains and elegant colonnades, jewelled lanterns, an octagonal dining pavilion and a domed mirador.
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The saddler gave it at so low a price that we perceived he must have tacitly abated something from the visual demand, and when we did not try to beat him down, his wife went again into that inner room and came out with an iron-holder of scarlet flannel backed with canvas, and fringed with magenta, and richly inwrought with a Moorish design, in white, yellow, green, and purple.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain.
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In fact, in Spain they were called Moorish skewers.
The Moses Expedition
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King Bucar ordered his tents to be pitched round about Valencia, and Abenalfarax, who wrote this history in Arabic, saith that there were full fifteen thousand tents; and he bade that Moorish negress with her archers to take their station near the city.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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The geometrically rich facade of the Duomo is actually a 19th century reading of what a Byzantine-Moorish church should look like.
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Furthermore, this set claims to cover the Moorish armies, who again would have a characteristic look.
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Ascending the steep and shady avenue, we arrived at the foot of a huge square Moorish tower; forming a kind of barbican, through which passed the main entrance to the fortress.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
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But they never pretended to hold the region thus ravaged; it was sack, burn, plunder, and away; and these desolating inroads were retaliated in kind by the Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a "tala," or predatory incursion, into the Christian territories beyond the mountains.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
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GRANADA (SPAIN): US First Lady Michelle Obama and her nine-year-old daughter Sasha visited Granada, the former seat of Moorish rule in Spain, during the second day of her holiday in the country.
The Times of India
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To the old alcaide who served as governor of Denia word was brought, at the end of a day of fierce tempest, that a Moorish ship was approaching the shore.
Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
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Whether it will be retro, modern, futuristic or even Moorish is not clear, but it's a safe bet that it will be achingly stylish.
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Most of the buildings on Cypress sported facades of English Tudor half-timber-ing, which made Pine Cove an anomaly among the coastal communit-ies of California with their predominantly Spanish-Moorish architec-ture.
Practical Demonkeeping
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Some might find the Moorish interior faded but the manageress, Maria, is charm personified.
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Alas, when but one day from happiness, a Moorish zebec --
Janice Meredith
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Other standouts in the cast include Morgan Freeman as Robin's newfound Moorish friend Azeem.
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Evolved over hundreds of years and combining various influences from the history of the region - Gypsy, Sephardic, Moorish, Byzantine, and Latin American - flamenco is best to watch at fairs, where locals, often the best traditional flamenco dancers, who learned from childhood by watching relatives, burst into clamorous performances of stomping and clapping.
The Prague Post
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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Phoenicians greatly flourished there, and gave their colony the name of Hispalis, which it remained content with till the Romans came and called the town Julia Romula, and Julius Caesar fenced it with the strong walls which the Moorish conquerors, after the
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Spanish architecture shows Moorish influence.
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St Wolfgang, that lies in the shadow of the Schafberg Mountain in the Salzkammergut.www. slh.com/nimb A Moorish-styled palace with only 13 rooms and suites in the heart of the city with a Michelin-starred restaurant.
ETravelBlackboard.com
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Spanish architecture shows Moorish influence.
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The Moorish mood is created by arches and pillars decorated with fan-shaped tiles.
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Ascending the steep and shady avenue, we arrived at the foot of a huge square Moorish tower, forming a kind of barbican, through which passed the main entrance to the fortress.
The Alhambra
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As I walked down at this place I was walled on both sides by those inaccessible high rocky barren hills wch hangs over ones head in some places and appears very terrible, and from them springs many Little Currents of water from the sides and Clefts, wch trickle down to some Lower part where it runs swiftly over the stones and shelves in the way, wch makes a pleasant Rush and murmuring noise, and Like a snowball is Encreased by Each spring trickling down on either side of those hills, and so descends into the bottoms wch are a moorish ground in wch in many places the waters stand, and so forme some of those Lakes as it did here.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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The undulating landscape of lawns, palms, sycamores, blackthorns and acacias was interspersed with gazebos and pseudo-Moorish limestone structures that house the coffee shop and seating areas.
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He had been exiled from his native Castile and, after serving now this and now that Moorish kingling in his wars against his neighbours, Rodrigo had been able to take Valencia from the infidels and establish himself there as an independent ruler.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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He informed me that he had been frequently in several of the principal Moorish towns of the coast, which he described as heaps of ruins: the Moors themselves he called Caffres and wild beasts.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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This is what people come to Granada to see and no amount of description can do justice to its refinement and subtlety, precisely because the essence of Moorish art is its simplicity.
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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He affiliates himself with this faux-moorish identity, asserting a parallel to the American colonization of Mexico and of Mexicans.
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The Gothic palace is a stark monstrosity that is in striking contrast to the delicately chiselled and embellished Palacio Nazaries, the Moorish royal palace.
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Inquisitorial system has deprived this kingdom by the total expulsion of the Jews, the conquered Moors and the baptized Moorish, we add about
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880
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Before he came to us De Malet was military commandant at Oran, and it was there that he did one of his best strokes -- outgeneralling a camel-driver from Tangier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes, 'Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews to a
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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Walking into the lobby, one is met with a mixture of Moorish fittings and Victorian interior design; the square pillars are adorned with Baroque motifs.
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
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There was a Jewish scholar, Isaac ben Joshua, in Moorish Spain who said that the Book drove everyone who saw it crazy.
Archive 2004-12-01
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Species associated with the Great Barrier Reef, such as Moorish idols, trumpetfish, butterfly, angelfish and fairy basslets co-exist with temperate seaweeds and fish that like colder climates.
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Rooms come in three styles: Moorish, with intricate plasterwork framing your bed; the more conventional Isabelline baroque; or Castilian, with rococo furniture and ornate silver mirrors.
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Adult emperor angels, coral groupers and shoals of sweepers mingle in the little overhangs, while overhead swim great shoals of pencilled surgeonfish, yellow butterfly fish and brilliantly coloured Moorish idols.
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The architectural part of the complex was reborn as a post-Victorian mélange, in which Moorish arches soar above Gothic vaults.
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His Moorish lineage does not absolve the majority from political responsibility; instead it draws attention to the spread of neocolonialism in business and politics.
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Ferdinand and Isabella by Ali Atar, the old Moorish alcayde of
The Alhambra
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Palms, ancient olives, oleanders, plus white walls and a bunch of tall palm trees lend this 15 th-century masseria a Moorish air.
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‘Dressed in Moorish djellabas and wielding damascene scimitars, they made a terrifying sight,’ writes popular historian Giles Milton.
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
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The building, surrounded by gardens and approached through a grand gateway, was damaged by artillery in the Spanish civil war but still contains a riot of Moorish-influenced tiling, carved cedar doors, polychromatic wooden panels, and fine columns and arches reminiscent of the Alhambra.
10 of the best hostels in Barcelona
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It's probably fair to say that morris dancing, most likely a corruption of the word Moorish, has something of an image problem.
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By mid C19th, the Moorish mudejar style was adopted by the Jews everythere, reminding people of the golden age of Jewry in medieval Spain.
Archive 2009-08-01
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It has expanded dramatically in the past five years to include new houses and flats above its ancient Moorish core.
Times, Sunday Times
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Choose one dish from five sections, such as caramelized onion and thyme soup, Moorish stew, fried bacon-wrapped dates, seared scallops and homemade ice cream.
Going Out Guide for July 20, 2010
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As far as the Liberty City group was concerned this was nonsense; the group of men, who were arrested for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, smoked a great deal of marijuana and subscribed to the obscure beliefs of an outfit called the Moorish Science Temple; so nascent were their terrorist plans that they never even bothered to travel to Chicago.
The Longest War
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The majority of the native Moorish communities, the Mudejares, chose to stay and be baptised.
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The ruins of a Moorish alcazar or citadel crown a rocky mound which rises out of the centre of the town.
The Alhambra
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The cavernous space pays homage to Moorish decor with its elaborately motifed terracotta plasterwork, ceramic tiling and large earthenware pots.
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Its head rotated as it tracked a brilliant moorish idol swimming before it, and its gills rippled as they expelled water.
MINUTES TO BURN
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The open flames recall the inquisition he didn't live through, and the sweet, dripping, falling-off-the-bone meat reminds us of why we adhere to the Catholic faith and not the religion of his Moorish oppressors: it doesn't ban bacon!
Jilly Gagnon: Extend that St. Patrick's Day Piety!
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When preparations were made to surrender the fortress to the Christian sovereigns, I was prevailed upon by an alfaqui, a Moorish priest, to aid him in secreting some of the treasures of Boabdil in this vault.
Washington Irving
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Of great interest also are a number of the churches of Toledo in which remains of the Visigothic period are preserved, and others built in the Moorish style, called mudejar by the Spaniards, which is the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Moorish tribes, whose quarrels, at the close of the fifteenth century, deluged Granada with blood, see the _Civil Wars of Granada_, a prose fiction, interspersed with ballads, by Ginés Perez de Hita, published in
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
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Moorish archways and arabesque screens slip a lattice of shadows across the comings and goings in the lobby.
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Some of the interior scenes were set in the domed Moorish ballroom which is now a restaurant.
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Carol Shoup wore a striped silk overblouse, purple and white, that looked Moorish or Persian.
Falling Man
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Of course, I am comparing the differences between the Visigoth and Frankish forced conversions and exterminations of the Jews as a favourable comparison to the second class citizens they were under Moorish rule.
Islam: The Invasions Of Europe « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Born in Granada, the ancient Moorish capital of Spain to a family of Spanish artists, Mariano – named after his painter father – was to be forever influenced by the faded, slightly oriental opulence of the land of his birth.
Fortuny’s “Delphos” Gown | Edwardian Promenade
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The early 16th century Mudejar style of Moorish geometric ivory and coloured woods became popular, especially as French, and to a lesser extent, English taste turned towards the Middle East and Arabia for exotic inspiration.
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The ideology also increased the Moorish soldiers' desire to care for the civilian population of the new land.
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The narrow defile up which we were passing is called, according to Mateo, el Barranco de la tinaja, or the ravine of the jar, because a jar full of Moorish gold was found here in old times.
The Alhambra
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Carmona, a half-hour's comfortable drive from Sevilla, is no exception, its Moorish hill-top fortifications girdled by a skirt of glaring white walls and terracotta roofs that spill down to the surrounding plains.
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The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish.
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Moorish courtyard
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Emperor angelfish, moorish idols, surgeonfish and sergeant-majors greeted us in the 20-25m visibility at almost every corner.
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They hinted of all enamelled things that come out of the East -- of the peacock reflections of the tiles of Damascus and Cordova, of the franker polychromy of Rhodian kilns, of the subtler bloom of the dishes of Moorish Spain, of the brassier glazes of Minorca and Sicily -- all these things lay enticingly in epitome in these lustred Italian pots, as they glimmered with a furtive splendour.
The Collectors
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Closer to the reef and in among a necklace of smaller granite boulders are all the usual reef fish - butterflyfish, damselfish, Moorish idols, triggerfish, angelfish, groupers and lionfish.
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In addition to his pharmacological skills, the boticario seeking a license had to prove, of course, his limpieza de sangre with documents that showed that none of his ancestors were of Jewish, Moorish, Indian, or African blood. 62
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Visitors to Valencia usually expect to find a town packed with remnants of the days when it was ruled by Roman emperors, Visigoth princes, Moorish caliphs and Christian kings.
Bob Schulman: Valencia: From Oranges to Operas
