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When he would quench his thirst, he disdains to apply the earth-born beaker to his lips, but lets the water fall into his solemn swallow from on high, -- a pleasant feat to see, and one which, like a whirling dervis, diverts you by its agility, while it impresses you by its devotion.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Where a plague! and Uncle Fly sprang from the wagon and began his usual active round-and-round chase after himself, slapping his pockets, now before and now behind, and whirling like a dancing dervis, while Aunt Lois stood regarding him with stony composure.

Oldtown Folks 1869

The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

Better is it, in a life like ours, to be even a howling dervis or a dancing

The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Better is it, in a life like ours, to be even a howling dervis or a dancing

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Better is it, in a life like ours, to be even a howling dervis or a dancing

The Inner Life, Part 3, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

The strength of the walls resisted an army of two hundred thousand Turks; their assaults were repelled by the sallies of the Greeks and their foreign mercenaries; the old resources of defence were opposed to the new engines of attack; and the enthusiasm of the dervis, who was snatched to heaven in visionary converse with Mahomet, was answered by the credulity of the Christians, who _beheld_ the Virgin

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

The unmonastic retreat of Amurath was that of an epicurean rather than of a dervis; more like that of Sardanapalus than of Charles the Fifth.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

The advice was followed: the edict was proclaimed; many thousands of the European captives were educated in religion and arms; and the new militia was consecrated and named by a celebrated dervis.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

Aaschik Pasha, who was a dervis and celebrated ascetic poet in the reign of Murad (Amurath) I. Ahmed, the author of the work, lived during the reign of Bajazet I.., but, he says, derived much information from the book of Scheik Jachshi, the son of Elias, who was I.aum to Sultan

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765