Peris

There's even a male character called Peris, although I think the book was written before the height of Paris-mania.

Archive 2007-09-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2007

The ancient Persians said Satan was an angel or genius who had made war upon the Dives and the Peris, that is, the fairest of the East.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

There's even a male character called Peris, although I think the book was written before the height of Paris-mania.

Review: Uglies tinylittlelibrarian 2007

Arabs call Peris, and we call Fairies, who made it their business to defend deserving people against the wicked monsters; and there were Magicians, and other wise or cunning people, who had power over the spirits, whether good or bad, as you read in the story of Aladdin and his Ring, and his Wonderful Lamp, and in other tales in the "Arabian Nights," and collections of that kind.

Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland John Thackray Bunce 1863

Now all these stories mean the same thing: they are only the old Aryan Sun-myths put into another form by the poets and story-tellers: the Peris are the rays of the sun, or the morning or evening Aurora; the Divs are the black clouds of night; the hero is the sun who conquers them, and binds them in the realms of darkness; and the death of Rustem is the sunset -- Zohrab, his son, being either the moon or the rising sun.

Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland John Thackray Bunce 1863

Karen Peris sang us as much into existence as quickly as she preserved whatever we ended up being: a twisted, serendipitous kinship that was doomed to disembowel my heart with every strum of her guitar— a jaded story that will, most certainly, stump me well into my eighties.

Autumn in the Afterward Casey McGrath 2011

As Daniel Peris , co-manager of the Federated Strategic Value Dividend fund, says, "The likelihood of spending money poorly is increased by having a surplus of it."

What Will It Take for Companies to Unlock Their Cash Hoards? Jason Zweig 2011

"If there were a greater historical sensibility among investors and managers," Mr. Peris says, today's low payouts "would be called out as an abnormal situation that's likely to lead to that money being less well-spent than it otherwise might be."

What Will It Take for Companies to Unlock Their Cash Hoards? Jason Zweig 2011

That means dividend-paying stocks will continue to outperform the S&P 500 for years, Mr. Peris says.

A Time for Dividends Tom Lauricella 2011

"The movement away from dividends occurred…from the early 1980s to the present," says Daniel Peris , a manager on the Federated dividend fund.

A Time for Dividends Tom Lauricella 2011