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... as in char when the king n attacked. French ‘thee, a repulse, caeca, irhe s , chew-men, Italian acacco, German echach, Persian shah, king. CRECK, to compare with • counterpart or authority, Ac.,—• mark put against items in a list, Ac. From the practice ...
... _auit-e will be the f _^ _iesta of the _Saltm _. This if _* the firat _occasion Eince the _conquest of _Kayla _.. thata _Persian Shah _baa _nwl » hix _appearauceoo _Turki&I * soil _, and there is _some talk _at ConKtantinopIe of _talim _^ _the opportunity ...
... the Hassian Embassy will be as powerful as ever at Con.; stantinople. At the same time, we learn by the au- dacity of the Persian Shah how far the Russian fic- tions about the war have influenced the barbarous Courts which learn from St Peteriburg almost ...
... told in an old alory . The old story thus ' irreverently alluded to is evidently the Book o £ Esther , and . the , Persian Shah is King Ahasuerus , whose gracious permission to tlie Jews to '' gather together and to stand for their life , to destroy ...
... among its other effect., re-open the question of our relations, through our Indian empire, to the decrepit power of the Persian Shah. Another instance this, among the many to which the present war has given birth, that questions which have occupied the ...
... with living pieces and pawns, and life has been the stake. The name is supposed to have been derived originally from the Persian Shah. In giving • brief outline of the history of come, it may be remarked that though kings and queens have often played ...
... still further altered it into shatranj, which is the Persian word of to-day for a square. Our word chess comae from the Persian Shah (king) which is used among the Arabs and Persians in the same sense as our word check. In actual play when the king is ...
... 33, coins of the Sheriffs of Morocco; 34. Pagratides ; 35, coins of the Caucasian Khanates; 36, Baberides; 37, of the Persian Shah.; 39, Afghans; 39, Krim-Gii els; 40, Genoese-r imcan ; 41, Anglo-Oriental ; 42, Tibetan; 43, A, Mtn; 44, or undecided It ...
... conundrum the other day, and immediately received leave of absence to find out the reply :— Aw, what are the odds on a Persian Shah-bet ? We'll lay 2 to 1 that Legge' will never answer this his worst and only effort at riddling. Will Mr Hughes, M.P. ...