 | Jāmī - Persian poetry - 1907 - 40 pages
...away four-fifths of the income of a province before he drew his foot from the stirrup. At his nuptials a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride, and a lottery was made of lands and houses. 1 he poem now pursues the scriptural account... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - English poetry - 1924 - 230 pages
...away fourfifths of the income of a province before he drew his foot from the stirrup. At his nuptials a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride, and a lottery was made of lands and houses. The poem now pursues the scripturalaccount of... | |
 | Robert Joseph Casey - Baghdad (Iraq) - 1928 - 396 pages
...whenever the fountains played. Abulfeda states that once when a member of the royal house was married "a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride." He says also that on the occasion of a visit by a Greek embassy to the caliph Moctador,... | |
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At the nuptials of the same prince, a thousand pearls of the largest size were showered on the head of the bride, and a lottery of lands and houses displayed the capricious bounty of fortune. 
