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... the rain, which now descended pitilessly. After a number of grandees had passed, with numerous trains of attendants, a body of royal farrashes made their appearance, with long white wands, shouting furiously to all and singular to get out of the way....

Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years' Residence in Persia - Side 265
av Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1864
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Blindness and the Blind: Or, A Treatise on the Science of Typhology

William Hanks Levy - 1872 - 598 sider

...furiously to all and singular, to get out of the way. These men preceded the ladies of the Shah's harem, and their zeal seemed to border on the comical, for...had all the eyes of Argus, and the indiscretion of Actaeon. The bewildered mendicant at one time plunged frantically towards the sacred carriages, instead...

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