They say too that Alastair, when sitting at the roadside, could by the sian render himself invisible to persons who passed close to him.
Sian dubh (black storm) is so-called in contradistinction to a snowstorm, which is designated cur is cathadh.
A sian of a similar nature, and with similar effect, is said to have been used many years ago by some persons who hid a large quantity of arms and weapons of all kinds in a cave at Meallan na Ghamhna.
An old Kintail priest long ago prophesied that this country would be brought to nought by Sian dubh, and that the people would have to go away to islands at the other side of the world.
They are abundant in Calamianes, but I imagine that the same must be true of other islands also; for the Portuguese trade in this commodity in Sian and Camboxa for China.
So ilin paroladi, kaj flegis sian he let them keep on talking, and arbon kiel antaŭe.
Sed li ne kuraĝis ĝin and nobody troubled about where transplanti apud sian dometon, he was going.
Sian filon amas la patro (in English "his son loves the father" has a different sense).
Sian filon la patro amas (= it is his son that the father loves).
Amas la patro sian filon (= the father loves his son, but.
But here, too, is a sian that will be for the safety.
Demands for their release figured in the Sian kidnapping.
He now seems little older in body, despite the injury to his back during the Sian episode, but the years have left a very clear impress on his moral character.
We searched the Sian of Drum Cliff, Fair after it seemed the plain of Liff; True, we found not there one hound From which we could obtain a pup.
During this epoch the Jews were permitted to govern themselves under the general control of the Per'sian kings.
It extended from the river Nile to the lands east of the Per'sian Gulf and from the northern part of the Red Sea to the southern part of the Cas'pi-an.
The Jews were governed by their high priests under the general control of the Per'sian government.
In May of one thousand six hundred and twenty-eight, there took place at the bar of the river of Sian the capture and burning of the junk from Xapon, caused by our galleons.
Very seldom a few vessels sail to Manila from Sianand Camboja.
They ascended the river, where they learned that the king of Sian had routed him of Camboxa, his neighbor.
Upon this trip it would be enough to make a survey of the ground and bury a copper plate inscribed: "Possession of the Rus- sian Empire.
Concha would help the Rus- sian to those ends immediate which he reveals to her, and succeeds.
Besides--what more wise than to flaunt our flag in the face of the Rus- sian bear?
He passed it to his host, who had developed a preference for Rus- sian cigarettes.
Lin Sian Ju was sent to deliver the jewel and to complete the transaction.
This was the origin of the events and the expeditions made later from Manila to the kingdoms of Sian and Camboja, on the mainland of Asia.
The king of Sianleaving some of his captains to guard Camboja returned to his home with the rest of the army, sending what booty he could not carry away by land, to Sian by sea in several junks.
Before Don Luis Dasmarinas left Manila with his fleet, Captain Joan de Mendoca Gamboa requested Governor Don Francisco Tello to allow him to go to the kingdom of Sian with a moderate-sized ship, in order to trade.
The settlements around the garrisons in the east were inhabited by agrarian tribes, but the subjugated population around the centre at Sian was made up of nomadic tribes of Turks and Mongols together with semi-nomadic Tibetans.
The government was transferred from Sian to Loyang, in the present province of Honan.
That the People of Amboyna would send them upon Command, those of Sian and Tydore, upon very small Intreaty; because besides their owning the Crown of Spain, they are Enemies to Ternate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
