There are obvious signs all over Eastern Sistan that the country must have undergone great trouble and changes--probably under the rule of Shah Rukh and his successors (a.
Shah Rukh whose barbarous soldiery, as some traditions will have it, were alone responsible for the pillage of Zaidan city and the devastation of all Sistan.
Shah Rukh Shah, hearing of this, collected an army and marched on Sistan.
The flesh of the young rukh seemed to have turned within them, and it now cried out for vengeance.
No sooner had we come to rest on a level tide than the other rukh hovered above us and dropped its crag.
Yonder come the rukh and his mate to attend the hatching of their young.
Rukh was, and is of opinion that the reason that the legend was localized in the direction of Madagascar was perhaps that some remains of the great fossil Aepyornis and its colossal eggs were found in that island.
But God Almighty was gracious unto us, and sent us a fair wind, which turned us from the direction in which the Rukh was; so we did not see him well enough to take cognizance of his real shape.
Rukh is but an image; it is a personification of water-spouts, cyclones, and typhoons.
Pauthier is of more liberal belief; for he considers that, after all, the dimensions which Marco assigns to the wings and quills of the Rukh are not so extravagant that we should refuse to admit their possibility.
Sindbad's adventures with the Rukh are too well known for quotation.
The circumstance which for the time localized the Rukh in the direction of Madagascar was perhaps some rumour of the great fossil Aepyornis and its colossal eggs, found in that island.
The fable of the RUKH was old and widely spread, like that of the Male and Female Islands, and, just as in that case, one accidental circumstance or another would give it a local habitation, now here now there.
Kahva Rukh will, I hope, stand for many years to come, but the stolen sum will be levied upon it, according to custom.
I hope the fine of 800 krans levied on Kahva Rukh may stimulate the people to surrender the thief.
Thus on crossing the Kahva Rukhpass we entered upon the sway of the feudal head of the great Bakhtiari tribes.
Said the other, "I desire thee to fetch me an egg of the bird Rukh and do thou hang it to the dome-crown of this my pavilion.
Oprey the rukhadrey the wesh Are chiriclo and chiricli; Tuley the rukh adrey the wesh Are pireno and pireni.
Mistaking it for a deserted structure, and, failing to find an entrance, they had amused themselves by casting stones at it, so that it broke; whereupon a youngrukh came forth from the shell.
Then the other rukh dropped the rock from its talons, and fate ordained that it struck the ship astern with a mighty crash.
A handful, dear lady—a toy army,” Rukh murmured regretfully, but vastly amused too.
The Raja of Rukhruled with an unquestioned despotism no Western monarch dreams of, and of which but few in the past ever have dreamed, and none ever has attained.
The Raja of Rukh had made Mrs. Crespin what he considered a very handsome offer—as he saw it, a tempting offer.
Rukh swept his eyes over her slowly, as she stood before him—she had risen at his entrance—and then he said deferentially, “I trust my Mistress of the Robes furnished you with all you required?
Rukh spoke again to the woman standing there waiting with her hand still in her lover’s.
What the Raja of Rukh would, he commanded; what he commanded was fulfilled.
Watkins looked the perfect valet, but Rukhhimself had trained him for the part, and there was less of valet than of varlet in Watkins’ office, and very much more of deeper doing.
To anywhere or nowhere,” Rukh told him cheerfully.
She did not see either Rukh or Watkins until she was well inside the room, and the ayah had reclosed the door she had opened, and had disappeared.
The Raja of Rukh strained hearing and nerves for the sound of English aeroplanes.
On the other hand, that the rukh had an expanse of wing of thirty paces, and that it could lift an elephant in its talons, are of course utterly incredible assertions.
For, whilst the rukh possessed some characteristics which are utterly fabulous, others are credible enough.
What would sufficiently explain the absence of mention by Babur of the parentage of Gul-rukh and Dil-dar is that his record of the years within which the two Begims were married is not now with the Babur-nama.
Gul-rukh appears to have belonged to the family of Begchik Mughuls described by Haidar Mirza[2747]; her brothers are styled Mirza; she was of good but not royal birth.
Babur's wife Gul-rukh appears to have been his sister or niece; he was a Begchik.
Kamran's mother Gul-rukh Begchik will have been of the party who will have tried in Kabul to forward her son's interests.
Gul-rukh Begim, whose parentage is not found stated, was perhaps a Begchik Mughul, was married between 914 AH.
So they made towards it and drawing near, found that it was an egg of theRukh and fell on it with axes and stones and sticks till they uncovered the young bird and found the chick as it were a firm set hill.
Abd Al-Rahman the Maghribi's Story of the Rukh 96.
Now there were amongst them old white bearded men; and when they awoke on the morrow, they found that their beards had turned black, nor did any who had eaten of the young Rukh grow gray ever after.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rukh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
