It was now past five o'clock, so we returned to thecaravanserai to dinner.
The caravanseraiis situated almost in the desert; and very cold and barren are its surroundings.
There is an excellent caravanserai close by, at Ain Mokra.
After breakfast I walked into the forest which surrounds the caravanserai on all sides, and shot two or three brace of red-legged partridges and a woodcock.
We were sorely tempted to turn in here, but refrained, and arriving at the caravanserai at about seven o'clock, found a party of French officers just sitting down to dinner.
Joseph accompanied us as far as Lodi, to indicate the route to the caravanserai of Arbah, where we were to stay for the night.
So I returned to the caravanserai to breakfast, and then, with my friend, rode back to the Arab huts.
For shooting of small game I would more especially recommend a caravanserai called Oued el Massin, about half way between Milianah and Teniet.
Think of those rows and rows of new cottages standing empty at Wathe Regis, and that huge caravanserai that nobody can live in at the corner of Russell Square!
The charvadars lead the way to a big caravanserai in the heart of the city.
Thin ice covers the water when I leave thiscaravanserai in the gray of the morning, and the Persian travellers, who nearly always start before daybreak, have already departed.
A wayside caravanserai is reached at the entrance to the pass, and I determine to remain till morning.
The accommodation provided at the caravanserai consists of doorless menzils, elevated three feet above the ground; a walled partition, with an open archway, divides the quarters into a room behind and an open porch in front.
The caravanserai itself stands on a slight elevation, and is found occupied by a couple of families, who make the place their permanent abode and gain a livelihood by supplying food, firewood, and horse-feed to travellers.
On the following evening, at a caravanserai near Nishapoor, we meet and spend the night with a French scientific party of three sent out by the Paris Geographical Society to make geographical and geological researches in Turkestan.
A mile from the caravanserai the trails fork, and, taking the wrong one, I wander some miles up the mountains ere discovering my mistake.
This caravanseraiis only one march from Tihran, and it seemed as if all difficulties were over.
A large caravanserai outside the walls is used as a quarantine station, and three others are taken as lazarettos.
For my own part I prefer the freedom even with the "swinishness" of a caravanserai to receiving hospitality for which no fitting return can be made.
In the centre of the plain is an immense caravanserai with some houses about it.
A caravanserai of the most miserable description, a square fort with a small garrison, and some large graveyards with domed tombs and curious obelisks, are the salient features of this village.
This is the Budgeree Hotel, and a very faircaravanserai it is.
I'll send a letter to Hazael, the Essene, and after having delivered the message they can remain at the caravanserai in Jericho.
When he got back to thecaravanserai he posted his men so that none of the inmates should escape, and then, entering with the captain and ten soldiers, was aghast to find the place empty.
He evidently made a sign to the slave whom he sent with me, for I quickly perceived that he was conducting me, not towards that part of the town in which my caravanserai was situated, but along the steep streets leading down to the river.
But, in fact, they met no one on their short journey from the caravanserai to the waterside.
In the afternoon they came to the borders of that forest, and skirting its edge, towards evening reached the caravanserai of El Kantra.
Inside the caravanserai all was noise and shouting and confusion.
He brought it to me with some description of your person: I thought you might well be at this caravanserai and brought it with me: I had the pleasure of hearing my officer, who now accompanies me, recognize you as we approached.
A wealthy Parsee merchant had presented the site for a hospital in the form of an old caravanserai (an Eastern inn).
Yezdijird, hearing of his near approach, and of the force by which he was accompanied, departed from the Caravanserai where he had alighted, at midnight, unattended and undetermined where to go.
Our first march from Cashan was to thecaravanserai of Sinsin.
His servants directed me to the caravanseraiof Aga Mahomed of Koom.
Here we encamped in the court of a huge caravanserai (Plate IV.
The caravanserai was notorious for its vermin, so I preferred to make myself comfortable in a garden with fruit trees and poplars, protected by a wall five feet high and without any gates.
There is hardly a tottering caravanserai to invite the desert wanderer to rest.
However, as long as the civility lasted, I was delighted, and I made as free a use of the caravanserai as if it had been the Shah's Gate.
The Conference of San Remo is virtually over, but the caravanserai of peace must make yet another journey before its goal is reached.
Nothing is now to be heard all around but the evening prayers of the caravanserai guests; listening to the multitudinous cries of Allah-il-Allah around me, I fall asleep.
A new caravanserai is in process of construction just outside the Tabreez gate, and I become an interested spectator of the Persian mode of building the walls of a house; these of the new caravanserai are nearly four feet thick.
After the departure of the moonshi bashi and his friends, by invitation I pay a visit of curiosity to a company of dervishes (they themselves pronounce it "darwish") occupying one of the caravanserai rooms.
After supper we sit down on a newly arrived bale of Manchester calico in the caravanserai court, cross one knee and whittle chips like Michigan grangers at a cross-roads post-office, and spend two hours conversing on different topics.
Nothing in the way of bedding or furniture is provided in the caravanserai rooms, but the proprietor gets me plenty of quilts, and I pass a reasonably comfortable night.
The caravanserai proprietor approaches me, and winking mysteriously, intimates that by going outside and riding for the edification of the new arrivals I will be pretty certain to get a present of a keran (about twenty cents).
Upon reaching the city I repair at once to the large customhouse caravanserai and engage a room for the night.
They then close the caravanserai gates until the excitement has subsided.
So saying, he returned to his caravanserai in a sore state of grief and melancholy and regret bred by his envy and hate of Alaeddin.
Straightway I found myself here as I wished and have tarried in this caravanserai three months awaiting your arrival.
The old caravanserai no longer gives protection to the harassed traveller, it only cures his boots, for it has fallen from sanctuary to shoemakers, and the leather workers of Uskub cure their hides therein.
Once shut up in the caravanserai one was safe from robbers, revolutions, and the outside world.
In the best chamber of the caravanserai Venetia Corona was sitting, listless in the heat, when her attendant entered.
At last he drew near thecaravanserai where he had been directed to obtain a change of horses.
Besides the arrival of the detachment of the line and a string of northward-bound camels, the retinue of some travelers of rank was preparing for departure, and the resources of the humble caravanserai were taxed beyond their powers.
While yet thecaravanserai was distant, the piteous cries of a mother-goat caught his ear.
It has more the appearance of a caravanserai than that of a place of religious retreat, and is beautifully situated near the mouth of a wooded ravine, half-way up a bold mountain, which ends in snowy peaks.
The caravanserai was the large kitchen aforesaid (p.
Illustration: Typical Caravanserai and Mud Fort in the Desert between Yezd and Kerman.
Illustration: Interior of Old Caravanserai with Central Water Tank.
There were some 300 habitations in Agdah, the principal one with a large quadrangular tower, being that of the Governor; but both the Chappar khana and the caravanserai were the filthiest we had so far encountered.
Goldsmid describes a fine caravanserai at Kala-i-Fath, built of large baked bricks, each brick eleven inches square, and displaying a nicety of design foreign to Sistan.
There is a chappar station, and a tumbling-down, circular caravanserai with massively built watch-towers.
The caravanserai underneath this tower and the tank are evidently buried by the sand, as is the case with a great portion of the City of Zaidan.
At the entrance of nearly every caravanserai was displayed a large clumsy wooden scale, upon which wood was weighed for sale to travellers, and also, of course, barley and fodder for one's animals.
Where the higher dune comes to an end half-way across the valley we find a village, having the usual quadrangular mud enclosure with towers, an abandoned caravanserai fast tumbling down, and a few domed mud hovels.
The four Cossacks, also, who were at the caravanserai received orders to leave at once for their post at Sistan, and gaily departed in charge of the British Consular courier who was to show them the way.
On leaving the caravanserai one skirts the mountain side to the west, and goes up it to the horse station situated in a most desolate spot.
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
This worn caravanserai which is called the world Is the resting-place of the piebald horse of night and day; It is a pavilion which has been abandoned by an hundred Jamshyds; It is a palace that is the resting-place of an hundred Bahrams.
They alighted at the first caravanserai they found, and inquired of the host the news at court.
On the fifth day orders were issued to search every house in the city, when the infant prince was at length discovered at the caravanserai in the apartment of the pretended dervishes, who were ignominiously dragged before the sultan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caravanserai" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
