With important differences, thedervish fraternities may be compared to the regular religious orders of Roman Christendom, while the Ulema (q.
At his feet sat one of the most extraordinary figures I ever saw in my life; a countenance more devilish was never given to Dervish before.
He now began to make his attendants play all sorts of tricks with the Dervish to draw him out; who seemed to be a perfect prince in the art of buffoonery.
This dervish was venerated by everybody as a saint, and received everywhere with the greatest distinction.
In the Mohammedan world the Sufi sect and various dervish bodies are the possessors of the mystical tradition.
He himself was in great danger, but felt no call to martyrdom, and set out in the disguise of a dervish [Footnote: TN, p.
When we heard these things, we were convinced that this dervish was in truth our beloved one.
He was taken prisoner when Hicks Pasha was destroyed, and had to turn Dervish to save his skin.
A Dervish vedette upon the flank turned his camel twice round as a danger signal, and discharged his rifle in the air.
The East does not change, and the Dervish raiders were not less brave, less cruel, or less fanatical than their forebears.
They are recruited from the Dinkas and the Shilluks--two negroid tribes living to the south of the Dervish country, near the Equator.
Beyond that are sixty miles of very wild country before you would come to the Dervish post at Akasheh.
The unfortunate dragoman, after all his treachery and all his subservience and apostasy, found his worst fears realised when the Dervish leader gave his curt command.
When we tried to get out of it, up came this wild Dervish movement, and we had to sit tighter than ever.
Besides, we are still close to Egypt, far away from the Dervish country.
No dervish ever questioned the curse of the priestess.
The renegade doctor of the Bey told us that the old dervishnow in question would like nothing better than to see us English infidels burnt alive.
The Dervish consented, and in their subsequent meetings many topics, including chiefly theology, ethics, and philosophy, were discussed.
His hatred of them acquired additional intensity when the chief of his courtiers disappeared one day from the palace, and was reported to have become a Dervish himself.
When we come into existence, the Dervish said, we are, every one of us, helpless and poor, but after we have grown up we have at our disposal all the wealth and delights which this beautiful world of ours offers to all men.
The strange appearance and peculiar attire of theDervish attracted the attention of the prince, who, having engaged him in conversation, was so greatly charmed with it that he expressed a desire to have this interesting meeting repeated.
This tale was related by the Dervish to the prince, in the course of one of their conversations, as an illustration of human life.
I've seen gas on the front under the moon that looked like a thousand whirling dervish devils.
It struck the soft, low bank of the road, shot high in air, bounded on through the thick carpeting, whirled like a dervish and fell upon its side.
Out they swirled from the cat's eyes of the glimmering wall, these dervish obelisks crowded with spinning fires.
It whirled with surges whose racing crests were smiting incandescences; it was threaded with a spindrift of lightnings; it was trodden by dervish mists of molten flame thrust through with forests of lances of living light.
Then Macnamara turned, to see Mahmoud and the third dervish on the ground, struggling in each other's arms.
With the wild cry of a dervish fanatic Dicky threw himself down, his head on his arms, and the vengeful three threw themselves down beside him.
He came on him, and the dervish fell, his head cut through like a cheese.
I'll cut the price of the kiss on those dirty fingers from a dervish joint," muttered Macnamara to himself, as he took his place that evening at the Khalifa's door.
He met the swift strokes of the dervish with a cool certainty.
The iron shoe came down, slipped a little, grazed his side roughly, and sank between himself and the dervish next him, who had shrunk away at the last moment.
He used no "much speaking"; he did not adopt the dervish yells and dances and gashings which were abhorrent to God, though they appealed so powerfully to the sensuous imaginations of the multitude.
The hermit and the dervishare sacrosanct; they stand before kings and are not ashamed.
Well, the third day had arrived, and they returned early in the morning; and soon after a message was brought to the Dervish that the child had fallen down in a fit, and was talking and raving incoherently.
Then you have heard nothing, my lord, of the old Dervishand his child?
The old Dervish had been a passive instrument in Runga's hands.
Would the science of the Dervish prevail over, as she believed, the Satanic influence?
I wonder what it would cost, or whether the Dervish would give it in exchange for his lodging.
While in camp together, our friends Runga Naik and Abbas Khan had held many an anxious conversation on the subject of the old Syud Dervish and Zora.
Take honour, rank, estates, what thou wilt, but give me my wife whom I see sitting there with the Dervish of Juldroog.
A picturesque dervish emerges from one of the tents and presents his alms-receiver, with "huk yah huk.
The crowd enter their remonstrances again; but the dervish wears the garb of holy mendicancy; violent hands must not be laid on the sacred person of a dervish.
It is the same dervish that was turned back with me by the guards at this same gate this afternoon.
A dervish is exhorting a crowd of interested listeners at one end of the court-yard, and a strolling band of lutis are entertaining an audience at the other end.
II The Dervish whined to Said, "Thou didst not tarry while I prayed.
The Dervish reply to it was an attack in March on Berbera itself, a body of horsemen dashing to within firing distance of the town and making good their escape.
In July there were disturbing reports of Dervish activity and it was telegraphed from Aden that more troops had been requisitioned.
The Mullah was an old man, he said, in an advanced stage of dropsy, physically immovable and incapable of leading the Dervish forays.
I do not see the fun of being caught here to walk about the streets for years as a dervish with sandalled feet.
With the exception of this man, who seemed to be a sort of "caretaker" in the empty camp, there was not a Dervish to be seen.
We felt that the stores would probably pick up the column sooner or later, but as for ourselves, it would be foolish to be wandering about the west bank, nearer the Dervish country, without military escort.
The villages of Hejra el Sharg and Halfayah were next shelled, and as a body of Dervish cavalry emerged into the open ground, some forty or fifty of them were knocked over by shrapnel.
When we passed the forts, constructed, after the manner ofDervish engineers, on a level with the water, we found them deserted, and their guns had been removed.
They did not, however, lose much, for the cavalry brought back scarcely any information, beyond the news that fresh tracks had been seen of Dervishhorsemen retreating southwards towards Omdurman.
Dervish forces had been practically annihilated, with the exception of two or three large masses, which had retreated in excellent order behind the hills on the south-west and north-west.
Another curious relic was an insulator from a Dervish field telegraph, which had been worked between a point near Gebel Surgham and Omdurman during the battle.
Before midday the gunboats took up a position opposite Kerreri village, and proceeded to enfilade the Dervish camp on the hill.
On 4th September some companies of Sudanese who had been sent up the river in pursuit of the Khalifa were seen returning in the distance with a long string of Dervish prisoners.
Our Lancer scouts had at length come into touch with the enemy, and had even fired a volley at one of several parties of Dervish horse who were sullenly retreating through the bush towards Kerreri.
Two friendly Arabs had been sent out beyond Geren Nebi with orders, in the event of a Dervish onset, to raise the peculiar trilling cry which one hears in a higher key from Sudanese women.
Bedr-el-Budur's arms were round his neck, and she was sobbing on his breast, while the Dervish lay stretched helpless before them.
And immediately Aladdin heard this he knew that it was indeed the Dervish who had worked this woe upon him.
When he had collected a sufficient quantity the Dervish lighted the fire, and, taking from his wallet a little box, drew some fine powder from it and scattered it over the fire, uttering an incantation.
The Dervish also gave Aladdin much sound advice on the conduct of trade, so that the boy's head was bursting with buying and selling, and he could not sleep that night for dreams of rich stuffs, and bales of merchandise.
The Dervish held out his hand expectantly for the Lamp and his eyes glittered.
On hearing this the Dervish cried out with grief and embraced Aladdin, weeping bitterly.
The Dervish then showed Aladdin the market and the traffic in goods, saying that he must study all these things in order to be apt in his profession.
And she returned to the Dervish and, approaching him shyly, began to doubt the truth of this great thing--his love for her.
Now the fame of Aladdin penetrated even to distant parts, so that his name was heard even in the land of the Moors, where the accursed Dervish dwelt.
When the supper was ready, and the widow was about to send Aladdin to hasten the guest, the Dervish entered, followed by a slave bearing fruit and wine, which he set down, and then went his way.
The Dervish had perhaps given him the ring to gain his confidence, and had purposely omitted to reveal its secret.
So she went, leaving theDervish in an ecstasy of doubt.
Round and round the dervishswung his living burden, she remaining perfectly passive.
All being now ready, the dervish without uttering a word, or removing his gaze from the disk, stretched out a hand, and taking hold of mine, he drew me to his side and pointed to the luminous shield.
The dervish made an hasty motion to enjoin silence; the light on the disk quivers, but resumes its steady brilliancy, and again its surface is imageless for a second.
Without losing time in idle talk, the dervish produced a piece of chalk, and traced around the girl a circle about six feet in diameter.
The dervish then lit the twelve lamps at this self-generated flame.
So him and the dervish laid into it, and they loaded every camel till he couldn't carry no more; then they said good-bye, and each of them started off with his fifty.
You call that dervishso dreadful liberal and good and unselfish, but I don't quite see it.
He let into the camel-driver the hardest he knowed how, and I had to agree with him; and he praised up the dervish the highest he could, and I had to agree with him there, too.
If I'm right, it's the one the dervishtook the man into and showed him all the treasures.
Then the dervish says: "God has made you rich, and He has made me poor.
So he done it, and they separated and thedervish started off again with his forty.
And this time the thing he wanted was to get the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye.
Our dervish acquaintance was a man of more than average intelligence.
Before retiring for the night, the dervish led the prayers, just as he had done at sunset.
Do you not admire the Arabian story of the sultan who would not believe that a little time could appear long, and who disputed with his dervish on the nature of duration?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dervish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abstainer; anchorite; ascetic; dervish; fakir; hermit; mendicant
