Other sects of Dervishes succeeded; and after them came Hadjis from the Holy Shrine of Mahomet—Emirs with their voluminous white turbans—and Fakirs from the far East.
Unlike the monks of the church of Rome, the Dervishes are forbidden to accumulate wealth in order to enrich either themselves or their convent.
The service commenced with an extemporaneous prayer from the chief priest, to which the attendant Dervishes listened with arms folded upon their breasts, and their eyes fixed on the ground.
The Dervishes were shocked and scandalized by this violation of the fast, in the very court-yard of their holiest mosque, and we judged it best to retire by degrees.
It was apparently forbidden ground to Christians, but as the Dervishes did not seem to suspect us we walked about boldly, and were about to enter, when an indiscretion of my companion frustrated our plans.
The chant was accompanied with a drum and flute, and had not lasted long before the Dervishes set themselves in a rotary motion, spinning slowly around the shekh, who stood in the centre.
I visited to-day the College of the Mevlevi Dervishes at Pera, and witnessed their peculiar ceremonies.
The dance lasted for about twenty minutes, and the Dervishes appeared very much exhausted at the close, as they are obliged to observe the fast very strictly.
They then retired into a private chamber, and putting on the habits of dervishes of Arabia, strolled through the city till they reached a hospital for lunatics, which they entered.
My lord," replied the vizier, "we are here in the characters of strangers and dervishes as their guests: how then can we presume to disturb them by improper questions?
The sultan upon this remark became silent on the subject, and they discoursed upon indifferent matters till near daylight, when the pretended dervishes took a respectful leave, and departed.
The sultan was transported with joy at the recovery of his son, but supposing the dervishes had meant to steal him away, he ordered them instantly to be put to death.
Accordingly he and his vizier, in the habit of dervishes of Persia, having quitted the palace privately, began their excursion, and narrowly examined several streets.
As regards Christian sects, certain sacred evolutions of the Shakers, in the United States of North America, are not less extravagant than those of the Dervishes in Egypt or Turkey.
So far, the procedures of these fanatics are intelligible enough; but the words of their songs are so mystic that probably the Dervishes themselves are unable to attach a reasonable meaning to them.
Under different pretexts, convents of his dervishes were established, some in Ispahan itself, and some in Julfa among the Armenians.
I to myself: it must be one of my old friends, the dervishes of Meshed.
A second wave of dervishes lapped over the hillocks, and burst upon the machine-gun and the right front of the line.
All is quiet upon the line of communications, though the usual persistent rumours of the presence of dervishes in the Eastern desert continue to circulate.
Yet we hope to smite them again ere the new moon be come, to which end I trust that thou wilt send us a thousand Dervishes from Omdurman.
No, no, the real high-bred trotter--the kind of beast the dervishes ride when they make their lightning raids.
And then like a flash came Mortimer's words, "It is the kind of beast that the dervishes ride when they make their lightning raids.
What seemed most to induce the frenzy of the dervisheswhom I watched was the fixing of their attention upon, the yearning of their minds after, the love of God.
Kassala was relieved on the 1st of April, and Stevani a few days later severely defeated the dervishes at Jebel Mokram and Tucruff.
Tidings of a new Mahdist incursion into Abyssinian territory reaching the negus induced him to postpone the settlement of his quarrel with Menelek until the dervishes had been chastised.
The Dervishes retired to Dongola; but it was thought prudent, before following them up, to await a further extension of the railway.
Akasha, the point to which the Nile Valley Railway had been built, was occupied on March 20, the Dervishes retreating to Firket.
The Dervishes would stir up a rebellion in Egypt,[73] and other rebellions were anticipated in Ireland and India.
When it was night, he lighted the candled and said to Zubeideh, 'The dervishes have not brought the ten thousand dinars that they promised me: but indeed they are poor men.
So he went down and finding four dervishes standing without, said to them, 'What do you want?
Have no care and think nought but good,' said one of the dervishes; 'for I am head of the convent and have forty dervishes under my hand.
As they were talking, the dervishesknocked at the door and she said, 'Go down and open to them.
Two dervishesattacked him at once from opposite sides.
Some 500 dervishes were slain, and the remainder numbering several thousand fled across the desert toward Handub--closely pursued by the British Hussars and the Egyptian cavalry.
His manner of life was not approved of by the dervishes of the monastic college in which he taught, and he satirizes his colleagues in revenge for their animadversions.
Footnote 38: Kalandars are an order of Mohammedan dervishes who wander about and beg.
With the dervishesgone malboos, and the faithful drunk with piety--canst thou not see the issue, pasha?
At that period the main body of the dervishes moved forward more carefully, taking cover and evidently watching the issue of Yacoub's and Wad Melik's assaulting columns.
As the dervishes were advancing very rapidly, the four Maxims under Captain Franks were recalled into the zereba before they had fired a shot, or ere the mounted troops got into action.
It was early, and not clear daylight, and the distance to the Khalifa's encampment was greater from South Kerreri hill than that from Jebel Surgham to where the dervishes lay in the bush and hollows around Wady Shamba.
The dervishes struck their camp instantly, and mounted men and footmen ran to the hills, their flight quickened by the gunboats' Maxims.
The fear was that the dervishes might attack upon the north or weakest side of the zereba.
A number of dervishes were seen lurking about, part of the defeated army of the enemy, who were afraid to return to Omdurman, anticipating that the Khalifa would have them killed.
It was whilst descending the interior stairway to meet the dervishes that Gordon was hacked and slain by the fierce fanatics and his body cast into the courtyard.
I rode forward and saw that there were thousands of dervishes in the town, many of them Baggara.
Dismounting part of his men, Colonel Martin materially delayed the enemy's advance, for the dervishes sent out lines of black riflemen to deal with the Lancers.
The dervishes were swarming along the eastern sides of Um Mutragan, running direct for the guns and the Camel Corps.
Gaining courage, probably from his own audacity, Mr Bennett had the hardihood to virtually declare that the cruelties permitted by British officers made the dervishes what they were.
The head of the dervishes remembered every word of the conversation between the fairies and the genies, who remained silent the remainder of the night.
The chief of the dervishes did as he was requested.
They were holy men, he knew, dervishesdedicated to death.
By going joyfully to their deaths, the dervishes reminded the Mamelukes that each warrior who died here today would be a mujahid, one who fell in holy war for Islam.
Arrows flew at them from the Tartar lines, and in an instant it seemed the dervishes vanished as they crumpled into the tall grass.
Accordingly we take the ferry-boat across to Scutari on Thursday afternoon in time to visit the English cemetery before the dervishes begin their peculiar services.
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.
Not being able to spare the time for visiting all the objects of interest enumerated by the guide, I elect to see the howling dervishes as the most interesting among them.
After visiting the dervishes I spend an hour in an adjacent tchai- khan drinking tea with my escort and treating them to sundry well-deserved kalians.
The enemy's line was completely broken up by the cavalry, and about seventy of the Dervishes were killed or wounded.
Not a particle of cover would have been available for an attacking force, and the expulsion of a resolute body of Dervishes from the shelter of these mud walls would have cost us dear.
A continuous stream ofDervishes was traversing the plain between Gebel Surgham and the suburbs of Omdurman.
But as none of the Dervishes understood the sighting of their rifles, and many of them had actually knocked off the back-sights as a useless encumbrance, their opening volleys at over two thousand yards, being fired point blank, were useless.
But much greater resistance came from the two thousand Dervishes at the back.
Woe betide any stragglers who chanced to fall into the hands of the Dervishesat present!
Indignation against theDervishes for such mutilations may easily be exaggerated.
Three battalions, too, of the 1st British Brigade had come up at the double, and the Lincolns had been dispatched to aid in the final dispersion of Ed-Din's Dervishes amongst the rugged slopes of Kerreri.
Scattered bands of Dervishes were to be seen in the distance, making westward to the shelter of the hills.
Suddenly a cloud of white smoke massed itself along the enemy's front, and one realised that the Dervishes had opened fire on us.
While the twelve-pounder guns were demolishing the forts, the Maxims were turned with deadly effect on the Dervisheswho were running about the banks.
There carts and caravans swarm, there fruit sellers and pitcher-makers take their stand, there dancing dervishes beg for alms.
Small parties of mounted dervishes are seen in the far distance.
Among Turkish men and women of high rank stroll poor ragamuffins and dervishesor begging monks.
On the way they were met by a crowd of dervishes and were killed to the last man.
The English and their Egyptian allies fight with admirable courage, and the dervishes strike with a bravery and contempt of death to which no words can do justice.
When they are within range the dervishes open fire, and wild troops intoxicated with victory gather on the bank.
It is the Khalifa calling his men to the fight; but at the last moment the position is abandoned, the dervishes retire, and Kitchener's army continues its march.
But the moment they come within range fire issues from thousands of rifles, and the dervishes find themselves in a perfect hail of bullets.
The dervishes bided their time patiently, encamping barely six miles from the outworks.
The dervishes rushed into the town, filling the streets and lanes with their savage howling.
The English machine guns scatter their death-bolts so rapidly that a continuous roll of thunder is heard, and the dervishes fall in heaps like ripe corn before the scythe.
The fallen ranks are constantly replaced by fresh reinforcements, but at last the dervishes have had enough and beat a retreat.
The dervishes surrounded the body at once, washed it, wrapped it in fragrant linen, and the Pasha himself selected a sunny spot under the trees.
As he dozed it seemed to him that he heard dervishes singing; their song is of a kind to make a man sleep even if he felt wide awake; but soon his Excellency was roused again by the sound of trumpets.
She found the convent of the howling dervishes situated in a picturesque nook beyond the walls.
About seventy dervishes were present; and with the aid of eight musicians, and to the chant of 'Allah!
General Gatacre’s words were to the point, “there was to be no question about this, they were to go right through the zareba and drive the dervishes into the river.
As at Tel-el-Kebir, the fire of the dervishes was aimed too high, and little damage was done.
Suddenly the Mullah’s dervishes swept down with wild cries, and hurled themselves towards the square.
Colonel Broadwood, however, chased a large party of dervishesinto the desert, where he captured a number of prisoners.
By eight o’clock firing ceased, the Dervishes being by this time all out of range, and leaving scores of dead upon the field.
The treachery of thedervishes is well shown by the same graphic narrator:-- “One lance-corporal was running up the hill through their huts when three of them made for him.
Defiantly theDervishes planted their standards and died by them.
It was found that the Dervishes had re-formed under cover of the rocky eminence two miles from camp, and had marched under the black standard of the Khalifa in order to make a supreme effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day.
Clutching my rifle in my hand, the fearful work now began of bayoneting the dervishes in the pits.
Five of thedervishes had fallen and several were wounded, but this had not checked their speed for a moment, and under the orders of their leaders they at once fell to work with their swords and knives to destroy the hedge.
The sheik's party poured in a volley as they did so, and then grasping their spears sprang to their feet, Edgar alone remaining prone, and firing four more shots as the dervishes traversed the intervening space.
But the dervishes recklessly threw themselves upon the spears, and in a moment all were engaged in a hand-to-hand fight.
The others at once took to their shelter again, and kept up their fire until long after the last of the dervishes was out of range.
In their fury several of the dervishes sprang boldly into the midst of the thorns and strove to climb up, but they were met by the spears of the defenders, and not one gained an entrance.
With a yell of defiance the dervishes dashed forward.
They are almost all armed with the rifles that they took at El-Obeid from Hicks Pasha's men, and will have found an abundance of arms at Khartoum; besides, these dervishes fight desperately.
The dervishes sprang to their feet in surprise and alarm, but one of their leaders exclaimed, "There are but a few of them!
Several of the dervishes had fallen, but the process of clearing away the hedge proceeded with alarming rapidity.
You shall show me how to use it, but if the dervishes come I will hand it to you, for you understand it and will do much better with it than I should; but show me how it works.
Except in the practices of certain orders of dervishes, the Howling Dervishes for instance, nothing in the attitude of a Moslem at his devotions betrays an overpowering feeling due to the weakness of human nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dervishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
