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Meanings of diwan in English
Federation of Breton language-medium schools in Brittany (France)
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Examples for "divan"
Examples for "divan"
1
She grew sleepy, and leaned back in the corner of the divan.
2
He grovelled on the divan heavy in thought and with pendent arms.
3
Fauvette sank back on the divan and lay there in sullen defiance.
4
He threw himself on the divan in a fit of nervous laughter.
5
The bullets were flying through the government divan, and along the approach.
Usage of diwan in English
1
His diwan consists of three qusidas (elegies) and eleven fragments.
2
In the court yard before them a large tent was pitched, that served for dining room, dormitory, and reception room, or diwan khaneh.
3
The diwan summoned the captain of the bodyguard, and the latter, to make certainty doubly sure, brutally shook the dead man by the shoulder.
4
He was immersed in the second letter which the Diwan had handed to him.
5
As he explained in the prelude to The Diwan, a collection of love poems:
6
The Diwan smiled and his voice changed once more to a note of insolence.
7
The chief building is the Diwan-i-Khas built by Mirza Raja.
8
The wine-songs were edited by W. Ahlwardt under the title Diwan des Abu Nowas.
9
The Diwan shrugged his shoulders in a gentle, deprecatory fashion and smiled his melancholy smile.
10
His poems (Diwan) were published in Cairo (A.D. 1875).
11
Thousands of Christians have fled Hamidiyeh and Bustan Diwan since they fell into rebel hands in February.
12
The Diwan smiled in a melancholy way.
13
But the Diwan did not stir.
14
On his position in Arabic literature see W. Ahlwardt, Diwan des Abu Nowas (Greifswald, 1861), pp.
15
From the 'Diwan': Translation of C.J.
16
The Diwan nodded his head.