Example Sentences

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Her dull red and brown roofs remind one of the harmonious colours of a Bokharan rug.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

Just before I saw you a native Bokharan goose ran past this rock, making, as it passed, a strange hissing noise, exactly like the noise made by sherbert when immersed in water.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 by Various

His protection of the Bokharan prince, Abdul Melik, or Katti Torah, the most bitter enemy of Russia in Central Asia, was also ill calculated to attract Russian sympathy to his side.

From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles

The second, and in his view the more impregnable, was the large number of saints that lay buried in Bokharan soil, before whose graves the infidel host would surely be stayed.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles