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  1.  The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany / Remy, Arthur F. J., 1871-1954
    --Origin of the Divan--Oriental Character of the Work--Inaugurates the Oriental Movement, 20 ... the soul of Germany's greatest poet and inspired him to write the _Divan_, and thus Hafid became  details...
  2.  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II /
    , and spread with carpets, divans, and Eastern stuffs. It was here, in the summer, I was wont to receive ... formed a pleasant housetop in the cool evenings. We spread it with mats and divans, and used to sit  details...
  3.  Tales of Chinatown / Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959
    -known loomings of almost equal beauty. Skins of rare beasts overlay the divans. Furniture of ivory, of ebony ... stood beside a deep divan, and he saw that with care it would be possible to drop upon this divan  details...
  4.  Dope / Rohmer, Sax, 1883-1959
    and squat bowls possessing engraved and figured covers emerged from the shadows of niches. A low divan ... entering last of the party, the door closed behind him, and from the cabinet on the right of the divan  details...
  5.  or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. / Paton, Andrew Archibald, 1811-1874
    to see him, and accordingly presented myself at the Konak, and was shown to the divan of the Deftendar ... red divan, the cushions of which were considerably the worse for wear. Such was the bureau  details...
  6.  The Lifted Bandage / Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, 1860-1936
    on the edge of a divan and stared out through the leaded panes of glass across the room facing him ... and crackled and a cheerful orange flame flew noisily up the chimney, but the man sitting on the divan  details...
  7.  The Vertical City / Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968
    , lobby divan, and table-d'hote seances, "tea" where the coffee was served with whipped cream ... corseted women stood now beside the invitational plush divans and peacock chairs, paying twenty minutes  details...
  8.  The Woman in the Alcove / Green, Anna Katharine, 1846-1935
    -a-tete conversation which I held with my lover on a certain yellow divan at the end of one of the halls. To the right of this divan rose a curtained recess, highly suggestive of romance, called "the alcove." As this alcove figures ...  details...
  9.  The Dynamiter /
    a reference in the following pages to one Theophilus Godall of the Bohemian Cigar Divan in Rupert Street, Soho ... trade. R. L. S. NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS A SECOND SERIES THE DYNAMITER PROLOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN  details...
  10.  The Waste Land / Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
    touched by the sun's last rays, On the divan are piled (at night her bed) Stockings, slippers, camisoles ... on this same divan or bed; I who have sat by Thebes below the wall And walked among the lowest of the dead.) Bestows  details...

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