I shall, however, only take a blue burnouse for myself.
When I pay a visit to a person of consequence I always put on my European clothes, which compliment is perfectly understood, for I offended an old Sheikh with going to him with my burnouse on instead of my French cloak.
His Excellency was sitting outside, washed and clean shaved, for once whilst I saw him, with a thin whiteburnouse thrown over his shoulders.
He shewed me his scarlet burnouse and gold-braided coat, given him by our Government.
The Turks treat the Tanelkums with great consideration, and every year the Pasha of Mourzuk gives their Sheikh a fine burnouse and other presents.
Succeeding it was the great festival, on which a procession took place, in which the new chief, wearing the burnouse which I had sent him, took part, with a great number of Tuaricks in their best array.
I was much surprised to hear to-day that En-Noor begged a black burnouse from Barth.
So dry also is the atmosphere that any sudden movement, such as the flapping of a burnouse or the swish of a horse's tail, will cause sparks to be emitted.
I cried, noticing that they wore the white burnouse of the north, with their haicks held around their heads by ropes of twisted camel's hair.
His burnousewas of finest white wool, embroidered heavily with silk; the haick surrounding his face was of spotless china-silk, and around his head was wound many yards of brown camel's hair.
Of a verity thy thirst shall be slaked by cooling draughts of the waters of Zemzem, thou shalt become clothed in the burnouse of honour, armed with the hand of power, and mounted on the steed of splendour.
Kophetua signed it, drew his burnouse about him, and left the room without another word.
Then, replacing the weapon in its scabbard, he settled the hang of his burnouse and strode away.
In the moonlight his eyes had a fierce glitter in them and his bare brown arms were thrust through the folds of his burnouse as he gesticulated to emphasise his words.
He paused, and, drawing a long breath, pulled his burnouse more tightly around his shoulders.
Sitting in the noonday sun, with my burnouse loosened and my arms resting on my knees, that sweet odour brought back vividly the events of the previous night, its horrors, its surprises, its joys.
Yes," he replied, with a slight sigh, allowing the water to trickle slowly into his absinthe, and drawing his scarlet burnouse closer about him.
Labakan's appearance was just as unkempt, his burnouse just as ragged, as on the day he snatched from me the box containing the horrible souvenir.
I had exchanged my haick and burnouse for European dress, now that I was back in Algiers.
While the old Arab was brewing it on his tiled stove, a man in a ragged and rather soiled burnouse entered, and, after grunting a greeting, squatted near me, idly smoking his long haschish pipe.
In order that the Arabs I met should not deem me worth robbing, I cultivated a ragged appearance; my gandoura was of the coarsest quality worn by the Kabyles, my haick was soiled and torn, and my burnouse old and darned.
Soon after there was a familiar whinnying sound outside, and he ran to the window, to look down and see Ram Dad in spotless white walking Burnouse up and down, ready for his master.
He was a keen, observant fellow, and it did not take him long to notice that Burnouse was gentle with one of the late Captain Morrison's syces, while the sight of the other was enough to make the animal roll back his eyes and bare his teeth.
They went out for a stroll about the barracks, which meant a look in at the horses, when Burnouse acknowledged his new master's presence with a whinny whose friendly sound was spoiled by an ugly, vicious way of laying back his ears.
We used to call him `Mazeppa,' forBurnouse is a regular wild horse.
Now then," he continued, as the horse cantered so closely up toBurnouse that Dick deftly caught the loose bridle and secured the steed, "how will this do?
He was a capital rider, one of the best in the troop, and had ridden many a dangerous horse, but somehow Burnouse was too much for him.
They are going to bring out Burnouse this morning, so that I may come to some decision about whether it shall be sold.
I hesitated, I trembled, and when with a supreme effort I at last grasped the burnouse and cast it from me, I still lacked the courage to ascertain what it really was, and stood shivering before the white heap it made upon the floor.
I was playing at Naples, and one night, when I threw the body of my murdered wife upon the ottoman in the last act, my burnouse fell off and fixed itself to my waist like a tail.
He retained his travel-worn garments circumspectly, for none would believe that his burnouse was well lined with English bank-notes.
They wrapped him up in the burnouse and carried him out to the closed carriage in waiting.
Once Mahomed felt beneath his burnousefor his money; and once Ryanne, in the pretense of seeking a cigar, felt for his.
As I raised my hands, my looseburnouse fell from my arms, leaving them bare, and disclosing that they were white!
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