Full-bodied red

Usage examples of shiraz.

It was not until after his father died, and he had succeeded as Shah in Shiraz, and Shams was thirty or older, that she gave birth to their only child, and then only a daughter.

Again we had our servants dress us in our best new raiment, and again we joined the Shah Zaman for the evening meal, and again it was a delicious repast, again excepting the Shiraz wine.

At different points during the war when Iraq became especially concerned about Iranian battlefield advances, Saddam opted to launch air and missile strikes against Iranian cities--this despite the fact that the Iranians had a great advantage in that their most important cities--Tehran, Qom, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashad--are much farther from the border than are the largest Iraqi cities, Baghdad and al-Basrah.

Khayyam, but the two mentioned here are the best known, with the Bodleian Manuscript used by Fitzgerald and copied in Shiraz in 1460-61.

Turkic-speaking Azeris account for as much as a quarter of the citizenry, and this does not include other Turkic sectors of the population, such as the Turkomens in the northeast, near the former Soviet border, and the Qhashqha’is in the southwest, near Shiraz and the Persian Gulf.

Meanwhile a certain Venetian by the name of Barbero had explored the ruins of western Asia and had brought back reports of a most curious language which he had found carved in the rocks of the temples of Shiraz and engraved upon endless pieces of baked clay.

GOORELKA OF OOLB When Shibli Bagarag had finished his narration of the case of Roomdroom the barber, the King of Oolb said, 'O thou, native of Shiraz, there is persuasion and sweetness and fascination on thy tongue, and I am touched with compassion for the soles of Baba Mustapha, that I bastinadoed but yesterday, and he was from Shiraz likewise.

En las puntales páginas de la enciclopedia biográfica titulada Templo del Fuego, ese polígrafo y derviche ha narrado que en un colegio de Shiraz hubo un astrolabio de cobre, "construido de tal suerte que quien lo miraba una vez no pensaba en otra cosa y así el rey ordenó que lo arrojaran a lo más profundo del mar, para que los hombres no se olvidaran del universo".

It was general, since the whole realm, from Shiraz to Samarcand, imbibed the faith of the Koran.

The Governor, who often drank in secret with his favorite Sultanas the wines of Greece and Shiraz, never in public drank anything but water.