peris

• I know that some of the other classes of spirits don't get along well with each other—peris, especially, don't work well with other peris. —  Triplet
• He'd had enough interaction, though, to confirm the common belief that peris were as knowledgeable as they were powerful—knowledgable about both the spirit and the physical worlds—and it was therefore something of a disappointment to discover how dull a traveling companion this particular peri was. —  Triplet
• We could be dealing with djinns here—maybe even peris or demons. —  Triplet
• The scanty drapery and liberal displays of the figurantes at first startled him a little; but "the beauty of those peris was such as might have enslaved the heart of Ferhad himself;" and he soon learned to view all their pirouettes and tours-de-force with the well-bred nonchalance of a man who had witnessed in his own country exhibitions nearly as singular in their way "though the style of dancing here was of course entirely different from what we see in India." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
• The fantastic crowd of demons, peris, and necromancers that appear as the supernatural machinery of the Shбh Nбmeh, such grotesque fancies as the serpents that grew from the shoulders of King Zohбk, or the ladder of Zerdusht, on which he mounted from earth to heaven--all these and a hundred other fancies compare unfavorably with the reserve of Homer, in his use of such a personage as Circe, and the human grace and dignity which he lends to that genial circle on Olympus, whose inextinguishable laughter is called forth by the halting wine-bearer a god like themselves. —  The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

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