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  • Mahommed, was born forty years ago in Sheeraz, where his father was a merchant.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • It is certainly not a distressed sale, said Sheeraz Haji , chief executive of Cleantech Group LLC.

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  • Sheeraz, let me flip it right over to you because your guys out right there with their cameras in the thick of all of the Britney madness every single day.

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  • The author of a collection of elegies and sonnets, Mr. Scott Waring, in his "Tour to Sheeraz," has exhibited a specimen of the king's amatory productions.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Various

  • That of Sheeraz has, of course, a wide reputation, and the wine of Ispahan is thought not much inferior.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • There has been a three days 'illumination of the bazar at — in honour of the capture of Sheeraz.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • For twelve miles it is surrounded with gardens, intermingled with melon-grounds, cotton and tobacco fields: the latter, of high estimation for chibouk-smoking, is sent in large quantities to Constantinople; but for the kaliān, or water-pipe, the tobacco of Sheeraz is the only thing tolerated in "good society," and is of a flavour and delicacy which would reconcile it to the regal olfactories of the first

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • She had not seen her husband for three years, and she heard he had in those three years taken two wives, one at Sheeraz and the other, lately, in Tehran.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • This unsightly practice has its origin in the quality of the tobacco grown in the country, which is so pungent when compared with that of Sheeraz, that only the strongest lungs can bear it when taken direct from the pipe; but by the employment of an intermediary, the more stimulating portions of the smoke are deposited in the servant's mouth and throat.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • The Shah's master of the horse and the servants of the stable horse-shod Mahommed Tekkee of Sheeraz, and then sent him to join his companions.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

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