They were wearing blue turbans above the flowing white "haik" which fell back upon their shoulders, and the white burnous which reached to their ankles.
An Arab chief in his white burnous and flowing robes padded in soft shoes between the little crowds of cocottes who smiled into his grave face with its dark liquid eyes and pointed beard, like Othello the Moor.
By and by they stood still on the summit of a dune, and Maïeddine took from the hood of his burnous a pair of field-glasses of the most modern make.
He and his son consulted together, and then a dark young man in a white burnous was called to join the conclave.
Then, carried away by the flower-like touch of her flesh, he let her hands go, and caught her to his heart, folding her in his burnousas if he would hide her even from the eye of the sun in the west.
He had been tempted for one volcanic second to stab Stephen with the dagger which he always carried under his burnous and embroidered vest, but a lightning-flash of reason bade him hold his hand.
And you, my poor friend, who had so much better have taken the burnous I offered you, you will stay and watch the metamorphosis of the Spahi, hein?
With an inarticulate grunt he moved toward the door, pausing as he went out to fling over his shoulder: "I'll send you a burnous and the rest of the kit.
You know he came with us that night, borrowed a horse and the burnous you wouldn't wear, and kept out of sight till the last minute.
He pulled the burnous over his head, drew the dagger from its sheath and settled down to wait.
There was a gasp, a strangled grunt, then an almost gentle rustle as The Jackal wilted backwards and his own burnous enfolded him.
The fact that he was wrapped in a blanket rather than his burnous was the only difference between this and the life he had always led.
I would not care to wear your burnous at this moment!
Choosing the doubtful shade offered by a copse of scrub, Ali lay down and drew his burnous about him.
His decision made, he lay down, arranged his burnous to suit him and went peacefully to sleep.
Ali got to his feet, smoothed his burnous and went to the stubborn camel.
Ali preferred the burnous, but his was becoming tattered and a new burnous seemed to be almost the only article one could not hope to find in the rich markets of vast America.
We recognize among us no class, which, as the abolitionists falsely assert, that the Supreme Court decided "had no rights which a white man was bound to respect.
Malignon rose to wrap the burnous round her shoulders, and they began chatting familiarly on matters which had little interest for Helene.
Despite the bright sunshine she thought it rather cold, and she requested Malignon to hand her a white cashmere burnous that was hanging from the handle of a window fastening.
As she cradled his head up into her lap and drew the shelter of her burnous over it, she became rational again.
Nothing now remained to tell them of the enemy, save here or there the flutter of a bit of burnous or cherchia (head-dress), that fluttered from the white sand now all ribbed in lovely scollops like the waves of a moveless sea.
He began feeling in the bosom of the old man, opening the cloaklike burnous and exploring the neck and chest with eager fingers.
His teeth gleamed through his stubble of beard, and his eyes glinted redly under the hood of his ragged burnous as he cried: "Will you drink?
No information could be got from him; but Rrisa's eyes brightened with unholy joy at sight of the old man ceremonially tearing his burnous and sifting sand on his gray head.
His big-shouldered, now emaciated figure in its dirty-white burnous was nowhere visible.
A man who forgave this would have much Christian feeling, supposing he had intended to be agreeable to the young lady; but before he seized the burnous Mr. Lush had ceased to have that intention.
Thanks; perhaps it would be wise," said Gwendolen, rising, and submitting very gracefully to take the burnous on her shoulders.
She, already in the expectation of something unpleasant, had thrown off her burnous with nervous unconsciousness, and immediately obeyed.
Certainly Gwendolen's refusal of the burnous from Mr. Lush was open to the interpretation that she wished to receive it from Mr. Grandcourt.
The litigants pursued Augustin, overran his house, like those fellahs in dirty burnous who block our law-courts with their rags.
The Numidian burnous has the whiteness of the toga.
A minute went past--Jaffa looked nervously round; the nakhoda folded his burnous more closely round his head.
Hidden by the dark burnous of an officer, he hurried through the empty streets and out beyond the city to the gardens of the temple of Astaroth.
He gave his sword and burnous to Tutmosis, and went to his bedroom without calling any one.
At the second stairway he threw aside his burnous and sword; once more he looked at the garden, as if he were sorry to leave the moonlight behind, and entered the temple.
To make her let go, some one draws out from below his burnous the skin of another hare, and throws it down a little way off, when she immediately pounces upon it.
The wearing apparel of five men will consist of: Eleven white burnouses, three for the father, and two for each of his sons: a burnous costs 4 douros 44 douros.
O my cherished dove Who wearest trousers that reach to thy feet; Who wearest a burnous that sits so well on your shoulders; Whose wings are variegated, and who knowest the country; O thou who cooest!
A little further off, the horsemen of the tribe, old and young, in silent sorrow, sit in a circle upon the sand, their haiks held up close to their eyes and the hood of their burnous brought down over their brow.
He who takes off his burnous and goes up to the enemy with the butt end of his rifle in the air, must also be spared.
The horses quit the earth, the guns fly into the air, and the ample folds of the burnous float and unroll themselves in the wind, thrown back by the vigourous arms of the children of the desert.
From time to time he pulls his burnous to one side and shows his left arm, strapped to his chest and wrapped in bloody blankets.
The Arab frees his burnous and pushes the Jew away.
A burnous and hood covered his khaki riding costume.
It seemed to him suddenly that the burnous he wore exercised a stifling effect on him.
Royson rode with such furious speed that he now made out a white-robed female figure struggling in the grasp of a man attired in the burnous and hood of a coast Arab.
His carriage, too, was that of a man of consequence, and he wore his burnous rather in the Algerian style.
Hence, he did not notice a gaunt Arab, whose flowing burnous and distinguished air singled him out from the mixed gathering of nondescripts at the landing-place, who bided his time until Mrs. Haxton looked in his direction.
He who wore the burnous flung back the hood, and, freeing his sword-arm from its folds, displayed to the astonished gaze of Lucien and Francisco the face and form of Mariano.
He did not wait, however, to remonstrate, but immediately drew forward the hood of his burnous and hurried away.
Sidi Cadua silently pointed to a ragged old burnous in a dark corner of the little cellar, under which a human form lay crouched up and motionless.
The Kaid was a tall, spare man in European clothes, but the Moorish Minister of the Interior was wearing his turban and flowing white burnous which spread about him as he walked.
An Arab shepherd is a happy mortal if he can gain twenty francs a month, a little pap for breakfast, a dish of couscous for dinner, and a newburnous once a year.
The burnous is as effectual a covering as charity.
Here a creamy-white burnous jostles with a baggy blue pantalon, and the cowled nodding head of a Bedouin rests on the shoulder of an equally somnolent red-fezzed soldier of the Bey.
The other still clings to his burnous and takes off his shoes at every opportunity, travelling by camel caravan, as did his ancestors of a thousand years ago.
The classic burnous is woven of a creamy white lamb's wool, or that of a baby camel, though often its immaculateness is of but a brief duration.
The Arab sleeps on the floor, and the only book he possesses, if he can read, is a copy of the Koran, which he tucks away inside his burnous and carries about with him everywhere.
It is beneath his dignity; for no matter how ragged or rusty he is, his burnous is sacred from all wear and tear possible to be avoided.
Seeing a man in a burnous ploughing with oxen and a wooden plough on a plain where there was no background, he said, "Look, there's Abraham!
FN#570] As most of its towns are white, Tunis is called The Burnous of the Prophet, in allusion to the fact that Mohammed always wore a spotlessly white burnous.
As he strode backwards and forwards he drew nearer and nearer to the little knot of officers, till at last, as he swept by, the flying folds of his burnous brushed against one of the officers.
He then took His coffee, after changing into the tunic andburnous of the country, and spent the morning over business.
Then He sat up, slipped His feet into their shoes, and lifted the burnous from the floor, as the door opened and the lean sun-burned priest came through.
His bare feet protruded from beneath His stained tunic, and His old brown burnous lay on the floor beside Him.
Outside the Café Maure D'oud was standing with the white hood of his burnous drawn forward over his head; one or two ragged Arabs stood with him.
Drops of sweat coursed down his bare arms and his mighty chest, from which his ragged burnous was drawn partially away.
In summer the Parisian wore, instead of a dress, wraps made in a loose burnous style of velvet seamed with pearls, and no costume was complete without its rosary, its girdle, jewelled necklaces and bracelets.
The burnous fastens with tassels at the throat, and is flung back from the shoulders, tassels reappearing at rare intervals round the hem.
For what is the burnous save a glorified aboriginal beast-skin?
At last all is ready, and small pipes are extracted from the folds of the burnous and filled with half a thimbleful of the precious mixture.
Man has been described as a tool-making animal, but the burnous effectually counteracts that wholesome tendency; it is a mummifying vesture, a step in the direction of fossilification.
Yes, there is no denying that it looks artistic; the burnous is picturesque, like many antediluvian things.
Thereupon I propounded my hypothesis of the Mektoub or resignation doctrine: the intellectual burnous of the Arabs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burnous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
