The interpreters answered for them in Persian: "They were on their way from the king to the satrap;" in reply to which the women gave them to understand that the satrap was not at home, but was away a parasang farther on.
It was six months later when I got the habit of dining with them pretty regularly and of calling for Parasang on my way down town in the morning.
Mrs. Parasang was lying where she had died, in bed.
I met them sometimes then and guessed at it, though as yet Parasang had not told me the story.
Parasang had drifted here, and was a reasonably well-to-do man.
Parasang was doubtless himself a striking person when he was young.
Of course, when I refer to the bodies as Mr. and Mrs. Parasang it must be understood that I consider only the earthly tenements, for I am a religious man.
I knew Mr. Parasang before the wedding, and it was because of my close intimacy with him that I came to know the relations between the two and the story of it.
The attack of pneumonia which came upon Parasang was not, the doctors told me, vicious enough to overthrow an ordinary man.
And the love of Mr. and Mrs. Parasang has always reminded me of the mummy wheat.
Mr. Parasang was carried off by a slight attack of pneumonia as dust is wiped away by a cloth, and Mrs. Parasang followed him within three days.
I could not always tell what Parasang meant when he said things.
Parasang once told me about this second wooing of his wife--and it was droll.
At a distance of one parasang is Mahomerie-le-Grand, which is Gibeon the Great; it contains no Jews.
Footnote 9: A parasang is about 3-2/5 English miles, and the distance from Narbonne to Beziers is correctly given.
In August I passed some days at a vineyard, about a parasang from the city, where my host pitched a tent for me, but it was so cold at night that I was glad to get back to the city again.
Footnote 14: A parasang is equivalent to about three and a half geographical miles.
Footnote 19: The parasang in Xenophon is equal to thirty stadia; see ii.
As a measure of distance, the parasang of Xenophon is evidently untrustworthy.
Assuming the road by which he marched to have been the same with that now travelled, it would make the parasang of Xenophon = 2.
There is here some confusion; together with the usual difficulty in assigning any given distance as the equivalent of the parasang (Koch, Zug der Zehn Tausend, p.
Canals of such magnitude must probably have been two among the four stated by Xenophon to be drawn from the river Tigris, each of them a parasang distant from the other.
Nineveh is on the Tigris, distant one parasang from the town of Arbil[216].
One parasang to Gran David, formerly the large city of Gibeon.
So they obeyed his bidding and laid its foundations and marked with large stones the lines thereof which measured a parasang of length by a parasang of breadth.
The measure of the hour was the parasang (3/4 of a geographical mile), and the thirtieth part of the parasang was the stadium.
A farcing or parasang is equal to two Indian cosses and a half.
This is a most egregious error, as the parasang or farsang is exactly equal to 2.
Footnote 154: In a side-note, Purchas says a parasang consists of sixty furlongs.
The 9th of August we went only one parasang to a river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parasang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
