What is "dervishes"

Usage examples of "dervishes".

Beside the cushion was a vacant throne, radiant as morning in the East, ablaze with devices in gold and gems, a seat to fill the meanest soul with sensations of majesty and tempt dervishes to the sitting posture.

His half-shut, stormy eyes fell upon the tent of the chief of the dervishes, and he scarcely checked a sneer, for the ceremony to be performed appealed to nothing in him save a barbaric instinct, and this barbaric instinct had been veneered by French civilisation and pierced by the criticism of one honest man.

His mean, colourless eyes wandered inquiringly over the crowd, as the mad dervishes, half-naked, some with masses of dishevelled hair, some with no hair at all, bleached, haggard, moaning and shrieking, threw themselves to the ground on the matting, while attendants pulled off their slippers and placed them under their heads, which lay face downwards.

He also saw that one or two of the dervishes watched the slight man covertly.

Suddenly the three mad dervishes waved their hands towards the matting and shrieked something into his ear.

Dicky lay still for a moment to get his breath, then sprang to his feet lightly, cast a swift glance of triumph towards the Khedive, and turned to the dervishes who had lain beside him.

The friends of the slain dervishes were come to take revenge, it seemed.

At the end came a swarm of clamoring dervishes wearing green skirts and pointed white hats, and with daggers in their belts.

Two dervishes, one with a drum, the other with a flute, ran among the Turkish soldiers from group to group, to give them courage and fire.

Down below, the trumpets brayed, the soldiers and, at the head, the dervishes with the green flag of the Prophet, bawled.

Truly the gravity of his demeanour exceeded that which is attained by Sheiks and Dervishes after much drinking of the waters of wisdom, and fasting, and abnegation of the pleasures that betray us to folly in this world!

They went there to flee vulgarity and extravagances, and to bathe and sit and talk and play with their children in peace, and the Desert Dervishes did not please them at all.

Remarkably, my voice stayed firm and steady, despite the dervishes dancing in my stomach.