"Parsi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the coolies that drove them mad with delight. They murdered the Parsi storekeeper, looted his place, and got drunk on his daru. Then they started killing the few Mohammedans we had on the estate. Some of the women and children got to us and we took them in. But the rest, even the little babies, were murdered by ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly
... the hollow tower of masonry with a grating over the central well upon which the Magian corpse is placed to be torn by birds of prey: it is kept up by the Parsi population of Bombay and is known to Europeans as the "Tower of Silence." Nais and Nawus also mean a Pyrethrum, a fire-temple and have a whimsical resemblance to the ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |
