I then chose the piece of meat which seemed most suited to my purpose, and with the aid of my
turban bound it firmly to my back; this done I laid down upon my face and awaited the coming of the eagles.
(that is to say the coach, not the
turban) went away again, with the two ladies and their luggage inside; and Newman, despite all Mrs Nickleby's assurances that it would be his death--on the box beside the driver.
"I will do the work as usual, then," said the young lady, "until some one comes to fill the place." And she went to her desk at once and hung the black
turban hat with the gold-green macaw wing in its accustomed place.
Standing at the window, I watched her walking briskly down the street, until the gray
turban and white feather were but a speck in the sombre crowd.
Miss Sharp only folded her own hands with a very frigid smile and bow, and quite declined to accept the proffered honour; on which Semiramis tossed up her
turban more indignantly than ever.
what would Pa say if he knew of Sackville Street, and what would Ma say if she was kept waiting on the doorsteps of that dreadful
turban, and there never were such pawing horses as ours unsettling my mind every moment more and more when I want more mind than I have got, by pawing up Mr Boffin's street where they have no business to be.
It had taken a deal of extra wet-towelling to pull him through the night; a correspondingly extra quantity of wine had preceded the towelling; and he was in a very damaged condition, as he now pulled his
turban off and threw it into the basin in which he had steeped it at intervals for the last six hours.
Here is a bronzed Moor in a prodigious white
turban, curiously embroidered jacket, gold and crimson sash, of many folds, wrapped round and round his waist, trousers that only come a little below his knee and yet have twenty yards of stuff in them, ornamented scimitar, bare shins, stockingless feet, yellow slippers, and gun of preposterous length--a mere soldier!--I thought he was the Emperor at least.
He had wound a red handkerchief round his cloth cap to give it the air of a
turban, and his red comforter across his breast as a scarf,--an amount of red which, with the tremendous frown on his brow, and the decision with which he grasped the sword, as he held it with its point resting on the ground, would suffice to convey an approximate idea of his fierce and bloodthirsty disposition.
Her
turban of yellow silk suited well with the darkness of her complexion.
He could not, of course, eat with the mess, but he came in at dessert, all six feet of him, with the blue and silver
turban atop, and the big black boots below.
I looked round, and through the crystal wall I saw passing through another chamber a procession of two lines of fair damsels all clad in mourning, and with white
turbans of Turkish fashion on their heads.
Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities--Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round
turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians--were collected.
They wore
turbans too, and thereunder peered out their elfin faces at me,--faces with protruding lower-jaws and bright eyes.
They thronged the narrow length of our schooner's decks with their ornamented and barbarous crowd, with the variegated colours of checkered sarongs, red
turbans, white jackets, embroideries; with the gleam of scabbards, gold rings, charms, armlets, lance blades, and jewelled handles of their weapons.
