The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836, 1. ciltHenry Colburn, 1837 |
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Sayfa 47 - Priest, who remained standing, the Dervishes spread their arms, and commenced their revolving motion ; the palm of the right hand being held upwards, and that of the left turned down. Their under-dresses (for, as I before remarked, they had laid aside their cloaks) consisted of a jacket and petticoat of dark coloured cloth, that descended to their feet ; the higher order of brethren being clad in green, and the others in brown, or a sort of yellowish gray; about their waists they wore...
Sayfa 20 - ... the harem. Their upper dresses were of printed cotton of the brightest colours — that of the daughter had a blue ground, with a yellow pattern, and was trimmed with a fringe of pink and green. These robes, which are made in one piece, are divided at the hip on either side to their extreme length, and are girt about the waist with a cachemire shawl. The costume is completed in winter by a tight vest lined with fur, which is generally of light green or pink. Their habits are, generally speaking,...
Sayfa 130 - I felt at once that, under such circumstances, I could form no adequate idea of what is understood by a Turkish bath; the terrestrial paradise of Eastern women, where politics, social and national, scandal, marriage, and every other subject under heaven, within the capacity of uneducated but quick-witted females, is discussed: and where ample revenge is taken for the quiet and seclusion of the harem, in the noise, and hurry, and excitement, of a crowd. Having passed through a small entrance-court,...
Sayfa 133 - ... conversation of their mistresses murmuring along in an under-current of sound — the sight of nearly three hundred women only partially dressed, and that in fine linen so perfectly saturated with vapour, that it revealed the whole outline of the figure — the busy slaves, passing and repassing, naked from the waist upwards, and with their arms folded upon their bosoms, balancing on their heads piles of fringed or embroidered napkins — groups of lovely girls, laughing, chatting, and refreshing...
Sayfa 425 - Muscovite. He was unhappy, too ; for in his solitary moments he paced the floor with hurried and unequal steps, like one who is grappling with some painful memory, — and at times sat sadly, with his head pillowed on his hand, and his fingers wreathed amid the wavy hair which encircled his brow, looking so mournful, and above all, so fascinating, that the fair Rechedi at last began to weep as she clung to her lattice, with her gaze riveted upon him ; and to find more happiness in those tears than...
Sayfa 48 - Prophet occurred in the chant, which had been unintermitted in the gallery; and, as they simultaneously paused, and, folding their hands upon their breasts, bent down in reverence at the sound, their ample garments wound about them at the sudden check.
Sayfa 376 - I at once understood that the attempt must be made in a Turkish dress; but this fact was of trifling importance, as no costume in the world lends itself more readily or more conveniently to the purposes of disguise. After having deliberately weighed the chances for and against detection, I resolved to run the risk; and accordingly I stained my eyebrows with some of the dye common in the harem ; concealed my female attire beneath a magnificent pelisse,' lined with sables, which fastened from my chin...
Sayfa 421 - TOWERS. 421 mauns reason to suspect the real motive of his supineness. Hence the Turks claimed the sarcophagus of Heraclius as the tomb of a True Believer ; and a marble mausoleum is to be built over it, similar to those which contain the ashes of the Sultans. The Seven Towers — that celebrated prison of which the very name is a spell of power — are rapidly crumbling to decay, but must continue to be among the most interesting of the antiquities of Constantinople, as long as one stone remains...
Sayfa 24 - I should joyfully have dispensed. Nineteen dishes, of fish, flesh, fowl, pastry, and creams, succeeding each other in the most heterogeneous manner — the salt following the sweet, and the stew preceding the custard — were terminated by a pyramid of pillauf. I had the perseverance to- sit out this elaborate culinary exhibition ; an exertion which is, however, by no means required of any one, by the observance of Turkish courtesy. Gastronomy is no science in the East, and gourmand...
Sayfa 35 - ... nearer view as when seen from a distance, the merchandize is objected to, and the visit repeated frequently, ere the fastidious taste of the purchaser can be satisfied. Nor are women of high rank exempt from this indelicate fancy, which can only be accounted for by the belief that, like caged birds occasionally set free, they do not know how to use their liberty...