"Peri-" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... extravasation and in the form of parenchymatous haemorrhages. I saw the former both in the extra-dural and peri-pial forms, but never in sufficient quantity to exert a degree of pressure calculated to produce symptoms of total transverse lesion. Here again, however, it is difficult to speak with confidence since the conditions which regulate ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... dreadful puritans whose excesses against humanity and whose devotion to Islam they record—to be acceptable as literature or tolerable as reading. Now, in Galland I get the best of them. He gave me whatever is worth remembering of Bedreddin and Camaralzaman and that enchanting Fairy Peri-Banou; he is the true poet alike of Abou Hassan and the Young King of the Black Islands, of Ali Baba and the Barber of the Brothers; to him I owe that memory—of Zobeide alone in the accursed city whose monstrous silence is broken by the voice of the one man spared by the wrath of God as he ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley
... were the European or Eurasian 'uncovenanted' Collectors of Customs and their assistants. The allusion to Prince Husain and Prince Ali refers to the well-known tale in the Arabian Nights, 'The story of Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu'. It is omitted, I believe, ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... Why so pensive, Peri-maiden? Pearly tears bedim thine eyes! Sure thine heart is overladen, When each breath is fraught with sighs. Say, hath care life's heaven clouded, Which hope's stars were wont to spangle? What hath all thy gladness shrouded?— Has ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 17, 1841 • Various |
