Word: tyrian
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...BASTARD OF ISTANBUL by Elif Shafak The cover: a traditional Islamic design of repeating floral patterns, in cerulean, turquoise, and a deep Tyrian purple. The title: “The Bastard of Istanbul.” The cover and title together certainly make me want to know who the bastard is, not to mention how and why a bastard of Istanbul becomes “the” bastard of Istanbul. Perhaps it’s a “Fear Factor” type deal in which all of the bastards in Istanbul vie for the prized title, though...
...According to legend. Dido, daughter of the Tyrian King Mutton and founder of Carthage, committed suicide rather than marry an importunate African chief. Virgil shuffled because Wanter Aeneas was leaving...
...distributor" of vegetable and flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...
...were dead or gone West. The New England mind recoiled from the consequences of victory with the same instinctive consternation that made Henry Adams recoil from U. S. Grant. Wrote Henry Adams, describing his and his father's return after a decade in England: "Had they been Tyrian traders of the year B.C. 1,000, landing from a galley fresh from Gibraltar, they could hardly have been stranger on the shore of a world so changed...
...spoke to him. "Arise, Jonah," cried He, "and go to Nineveh. Cry out against that great city for its sins." Jonah answered fiercely: "You . . . What are you God of ? Were you God of Israel when a Tyrian stole my love? Was I your prophet then?" In anger, he took ship for Tarshish, thinking by this to make God lose...