Mirak

Sind under the Mughuls: An Introduction to, Translation of and Commentary on the Mazhar-i Shahjahani of Yusuf Mirak (1044/1634).

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It was frightfully exciting, and Mirak and Bija were dancing about, unable to keep still, when a sudden shaft of light that burst into the dark shed, and a furiously joyful barking that came down the funnel as if it had been a speaking trumpet, announced Tumbu's arrival in free air.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

"I won't have it, Mirak," she would say with a stamp of her little foot;

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

Bija made endless cowslip balls out of the beautiful rose-pink primulas, while Roy and Mirak, following the shepherds 'boys, came back with their hands full of young rhubarb shoots and green fern croziers, which they ate like asparagus.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

Mirak was keen to snowball, but Roy would not hear of it; the snow was melting with the faint heat of the mid-day sun, he said, and a step might make the frost film break, and down into the powdery drift they might go, never to come up again.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

"Pluck him yonder tulips, Mirak," said Dearest-Lady with a smile.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

And she would let Mirak, as she elected to call her brother, swing her for hours, but she obstinately refused to tumble down!

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

So Kumran's charming polished manner vanished in an instant, and one day, without any warning, little Mirak, playing in the garden, was kidnapped by two stalwart Abyssinian slaves and carried off, howling horribly and fighting with his fists, to the palace where Kumran's wife lived.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

Mirak, nothing loath, climbed quickly to his mount; but ere he had settled himself on its back Tumbu had begun to sink slowly.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888

Mirak, who was back at his cat's cradle, looked up with grave superiority.

The Adventures of Akbar Flora Annie Steel 1888