10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATAGHAN»
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1
The New Monthly Magazine
The turban girt my shaven bro'w, and belted pistols pressed my waist, while the
sun glanced brightly on the weapons of my following train, " Each arm'd as best
becomes a man, With arquebuss and ataghan." Two mules, pressed into the ...
Drawing, then, his ataghan, the executioner held it up in the act to strike, and in
this position recited the offence — "conspiracy," &c. It was an awful picture, a
moment of breathless excitement to all persons present, excepting the two actors,
the ...
Thomas Campbell, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Samuel Carter Hall, 1854
3
The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last ...
Since his turban was cleft by the infidel's sabre ! (*2) ***** I bear the sound of
coming feet. But not a voice mine ear to greet; More near — each turban I can
scan, And silver-sheathed ataghan;(3) The foremost of the band is seen An emir,
by his ...
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer, 1841
4
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
His swartby countenance — his strong beard — his glaring eye — his brawny,
muscular hand — his thick beshawled waist, with pistols and ataghan stuck
therein — his long pipe — his longer vane — his clumsy slippered foot —
became ...
Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, 1838
5
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
... we might connect itwith the verb gearwian, tomake ready, from the adj. gearo,
ready, yare; see Yare.Thus yarrow = that which makes yare, orrestores.But this is
uncertain. YATAGHAN, ATAGHAN,a daggerlike sabre, with doubly curved blade.
6
The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India ...
... his ataghan and pistols in his belt, I cautioned my friend against interfering any
further with his rest, and we went to bed. Next day, however, he appeared
unusually dull and melancholy, and continued so for almost a week; when
Antoinetti ...
7
A Steam Voyage down the Danube ... Third edition, with additions
Happening to look behind me, as my horse stopped to drink from a stream that
crossed our path, I detected the gentleman in the act of replacing a pistol in his
belt, where the handle of an ataghan also presented a formidable state of ...
Michael Joseph QUIN, 1836
8
The Works: In Two Volumes
Note 13, page l7, line 16. And silver-sheathed ataghan. -The ataghan, a long
dagger worn with pistols in the belt, in a metal scabbard, generally of silver; and,
among the wealthier, gilt, or of gold. Note 36, page 37, line 6. To wander round
lost ...
George Gordon Byron Byron, 1815
9
Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, Etc., and of a Cruize ...
The bashi parried it, also a second blow, but then, finding himself hard pressed,
dropped his stick and drew his ataghan. They were now on a par, both much
enraged, and the affair seemed likely to be sanguinary. Their countrymen did not
...
10
A visit to Greece and Constantinople, in the year 1827-8
and ataghan that loaded his belt, and the unerring rifle which was scarcely ever a
moment out of his grasp, seemed ever on the look-out for daring and desperate
adventures. He was in short a perfect model of a bold and fearless rover of the ...
