Definitions
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- adjective of, from, or pertaining to
Chorasmia - noun a person from
Chorasmia - proper noun an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in
Chorasmia
Etymologies
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Examples
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I hardly appreciated then, as I have since learned to do, the central tragedy; what enchanted me was the artist in Pekin with his ivory forehead and pale hands, the cypress in the queen's garden, the backward glance at Rustum's youth, the pedlars from Khabul, the hushed Chorasmian waste.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian [51] waste 875
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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At last he pauses "on the lone Chorasmian shore," and sees a frail shallop in which he trusts himself to the waves.
Shelley Sydney Waterlow 1911
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` ` At length upon the lone Chorasmian shore He paused -- '' I mouthed for the fourth time.
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Italy, Gaul, and Spain would have been successively attacked and conquered; the enterprises proposed to him when in Bactria by the Chorasmian prince Pharasmanes, but postponed then until a more convenient season, would have been next taken up, and he would have marched from the Danube northward round the Euxine and Palus Mæotis [45] against the Scythians and the tribes of the Caucasus.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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Parthia, in the mind of the writer of the Acts, would designate this empire, which extended from India to the Tigris and from the Chorasmian desert to the shores of the Southern Ocean; hence the prominent position of the name Parthians in the list of those prevent at Pentecost.
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Scyths, who at a remote date had separated from the rest of the nation, and had occupied the southern portion of the Chorasmian desert, whence they had gradually made themselves masters of the mountain region adjoining it.
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Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian° waste, °878
Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Matthew Arnold 1855
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Chorasmian [FN#141] maces and other gear of fight and fray.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Soon the stream that early interfered will seem like the Oxus when it flows typifying the human soul passing Organje where he slows his current: certain none the less whatever the Chorasmian stress offers with its Delta n loads anything his strength erodes of such a solitude will be enough of land to reach the sea.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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