"Caftan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bowing low, and taking Gregory by the hem of his caftan.) Great prince, illustrious offspring of ...
— Boris Godunov - A Drama in Verse • Alexander Pushkin
... come on shore in a Moorish dress, which had been provided at Algiers. Thanks to young Hope's naturally dark complexion, and the exposure of the last month, he might very well pass for a Moor: and he had learnt to wear the white caftan, wide trousers, broad sash, and scarlet fez, circled with muslin, so naturally that he was not likely to be noticed ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... about to retire, that his curiosity could no longer be suppressed.—"Gentle maiden," he began in the Arabian tongue, with which his Eastern travels had rendered him familiar, and which he thought most likely to be understood by the turban'd and caftan'd damsel who stood before him—"I pray you, ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... together already while our tongues remained silent. Greatly as our lives had separated us, after the interchange of two or three glances we felt that we were both men, and we ceased to fear each other. The nearest of all to me was a peasant with a swollen face and a red beard, in a tattered caftan, and patched overshoes on his bare feet. And the weather was eight degrees below zero. {3} For the third or fourth time I encountered his eyes, and I felt so near to him that I was no longer ashamed to accost him, ...
— The Moscow Census - From "What to do?" • Lyof N. Tolstoi |
