How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes!
At these words he started up, and beheld--not his Sophia--no, nor a Circassian maid richly and elegantly attired for the grand Signior's seraglio.
Circassian and Georgian girls are still sold in Constantinople by their parents, but not publicly.
has naturally strengthened the market and given Circassian stock a
"Best brands Circassians, crop of 1850, L200; 1852, L250; 1854,
Hemp is a dusky, dark fellow, a sort of Indian; but Manilla is as a golden-haired
Circassian to behold.
He doffed his
Circassian cap to his master and looked at him scornfully.
She falls down on her knees and entreats him to restore her to the mountains where she was born, and where her
Circassian lover is still deploring the absence of his Zuleikah.
From force of habit, though the small studio with the stove lit was very hot, he kept on his great-coat, with the collar turned up, and his bowler hat: he looked with satisfaction on the four large fiaschi of Chianti which stood in front of him in a row, two on each side of a bottle of whiskey; he said it reminded him of a slim fair
Circassian guarded by four corpulent eunuchs.
Seduce the
Circassian girls, shoot the enemies of the fatherland and...and...to your health, Monsieur Zverkov!"
The man came up near them with a flag of truce, and called to them; but though he spoke several of their languages, or dialects of languages rather, he could not understand a word they said; however, after some signs to him not to come near them at his peril, the fellow came back no wiser than he went; only that by their dress, he said, he believed them to be some Tartars of Kalmuck, or of the
Circassian hordes, and that there must be more of them upon the great desert, though he never heard that any of them were seen so far north before.
How should you like a fair
Circassian, with a dagger in her belt?"