The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836, 1. ciltH. Colburn, 1837 |
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Achmet Pasha Albania amid amused apartment appearance araba Armenian beauty beneath blue Bosphorus bright brow Buyuk Hanoum caïque carpet carriage ceremony Chargé d'Affaires chibouk church Circassian coloured Constantinople court covered crimson crowd cushions cypresses dark Dervishes diamonds Dolma dome door East edifice Effendi European eyes fair favourite feet female flung Frank fringed gallery Giaour gilded glittering gold grave Greek hand harem head Heyminè hour Imperial individual jewels kiosk lattices light Logotheti look lovely magnificent marble ment minarets mosque muslin Musselmaun Mustapha Pasha Nazip Hanoum never occasion Odalique Osmanli palace party passed Patriarch Pera perfume piastres prayer priest Princess richly Russian scene Scodra Scutari Sea of Marmora seated Seraï Seraskier shawl sherbet side silk silver slaves sofa Sophia Stamboul stood Sublime Highness Sultan Sultan Mahmoud tandour tion tomb Tower turban Turkey Turkish Turkish ladies Turks Ulemas veiled whole women yashmac
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