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    armenian


    1. However, they quickly back off respectfully, when, out of the shadows, appears HAMO, a jolly, tall, angular Armenian man with a three-day growth of beard


    2. The other name had to be Armenian


    3. I racked my brains for an hour trying to put faces to the Persian and the Armenian, but I could not recall anything other than grainy news footage


    4. Word on the streets was that both he and Abdul were killed trying to rob some Armenian cats for some C4


    5. For one thing, it had taken an expropriation order from the Overseer to finally gain access to a piece of land on the Mount of Olives that belonged to the Armenian Christian Orthodox Church


    6. That piece of land was necessary in order to complete the causeway now linking the Golden Gate to the Mount of Olives but the Armenian Patriarch had been unmovable on that issue, finally forcing Laplante to resort to expropriation


    7. ‘It was only with the Soviets that Ataturk could ally and this proved possible after Commissar Chicherin's arrival in Ankara when a joint Turko-Soviet Army smashed Armenian hopes for self-determination


    8. The Armenian continued: ‘Ataturk next turned his attention on Istanbul, as Constantinople was now being called


    9. He was pleased with himself for already knowing a little of what the Armenian was saying:


    10. Refreshed by the events of the night he could now take on the Second World War in Asia which is where the Armenian started

    11. The railway and its coastal and inland terminii were constructed by the Chinese just as the Armenian had predicted to Theo; China was making in-roads into Africa through large projects which the west refused to support


    12. The Armenian saw in him an enterprising young man and proposed to Choco that he forget the club and supply the prohibited goods directly, from Nairobi, to the homes of his clients in Dar-es-Salaam


    13. When Theo died, the Armenian had lost a boy he considered a son


    14. To the Armenian, Choco was no Theo


    15. The Armenian fell silent and then asked: “Why did you not disabuse him of the thought that she was his alone?”


    16. It was probably that conversation; that admission by Choco, which distanced the Armenian from him


    17. The last time the Armenian spoke to Choco face to face was in Dar-es-Salaam


    18. Further down that list came the Armenian and Kostas Kokopoulos


    19. Kokopoulos, the Armenian and one other were the only unaccompanied guests at the party and found themselves standing in an isolated trio at the start of proceedings


    20. And the Armenian?

    21. The Armenian denied the parentage of the boy and sent him away


    22. ‘School money came from the Armenian until he died


    23. Soon after entering his office, the commander followed and ordered him, ‘Aslan![33] Grab this duplicitous man and throw him into prison,’ pointing at the Turkish officer who had given false testimony against the Armenian


    24. Sheikho, to bear false witness against the Armenian man?


    25. Soon after entering his office, the commander followed and ordered him, ‘Aslan! [58]Grab this duplicitous man and throw him into prison,’ pointing at the Turkish officer who had given false testimony against the Armenian


    26. " marvelous in Egyptian, belongs to God in Armenian


    27. Another was an Armenian woman older than I was who came often to my room for a chat


    28. ” The Armenian girl visited me frequently and we had intimate chats


    29. The collection consists of some three thousand manuscripts of which two thirds are Greek and the rest are Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Slavic, Syriac, Georgian and in other languages


    30. I frequented Pavlos, my Armenian friend Jack and Nelly, a schoolmate and budding social historian

    31. Jack was Armenian


    32. His parents were born in Turkey and were survivors of the Armenian genocide by the Turks


    33. Egypt had a sizeable Armenian community and, like the Greeks, they had their churches and schools, clubs and newspapers


    34. After the consulate, I walked to an Armenian photographer I knew nearby on the same street and I showed him a picture of Lizzie I had selected


    35. At the small salon, which was owned and run by a young Armenian coiffeur and his sister, he soon learnt the techniques and knack of washing, cutting, shaping, combing and permanent waving of long, beautiful


    36. Lebanese and my mother Armenian


    37. Even to the current era over a hundred years later the Turkish government still denied that the Armenian Genocide ever took place, but such a refusal to claim responsibility for past misdeeds did not do away with all the evidence of their past actions, which offer their own testimony as did the testimony of those who survived


    38. The man stared at her in astonishment and then in further astonishment when she said both where he had lived and that he had been a soldier who did great evil in the persecution of Armenian Christians


    39. He, it turned out, was Armenian, having emigrated with his wife and three children and he spent half of the next twenty minutes telling me how perfect Armenia was and how beautiful the women were, how good the food was and generally how excellent life was there


    40. This is the player’s lair, how goeth the played? I asked myself the question that the Armenian had asked me, why I had come, and I thought for a moment that I understood

    41. I even had sympathy for the Armenian and was somehow glad he’d made his money and gone home


    42. When I get to him I see it’s the Armenian taxi driver, his eyes, blue green, ‘don’t forget,’ he says, ‘ti sam,’ you too!


    43. ' I cried bitterly, and tried to raise my mother from the earth, but she was dead! I was taken to the slave-market, and was purchased by a rich Armenian


    44. 'Madame,' replied the president, bowing with profound respect, 'allow me to ask one question; it shall be the last: Can you prove the authenticity of what you have now stated?'— 'I can, sir,' said Haidee, drawing from under her veil a satin satchel highly perfumed; 'for here is the register of my birth, signed by my father and his principal officers, and that of my baptism, my father having consented to my being brought up in my mother's faith,—this latter has been sealed by the grand primate of Macedonia and Epirus; and lastly (and perhaps the most important), the record of the sale of my person and that of my mother to the Armenian merchant El-Kobbir, by the French officer, who, in his infamous bargain with the Porte, had reserved as his part of the booty the wife and daughter of his benefactor, whom he sold for the sum of four hundred thousand francs


    45. That's our Armenian cook, Begedbian; that's me on the pony; that's the tent folded up; that's a rather tiresome Kurd who would follow us about at the time


    46. Since losing the bid for Lincoln Center at the turn of the 1960s, the Hamilton-Sweeney Company’s investment arm had diverted most of its energy to international concerns, Exigente cigarettes, El Bandito coffee (whose mustachioed spokesperson, Pepe Rodríguez, she was in a position to know, was actually an Armenian from South Jersey)


    47. After Lenin decided that letting so many of the nationalities of the old tsarist empire, including the Armenians, set up independent, anti-communist states on Russia’s borders might not be such a good idea after all, he and Kemal co-operated in crushing the briefly-independent Armenian state and the Turks resumed their campaign of ethnic cleansing


    48. Yet, the rest of the world largely ignored what happened in Armenia and to this day the Turks furiously deny that they launched a campaign of genocide to wipe out the Armenian people, even though that’s the consensus of historians


    49. Involuntarily he noticed a Georgian or Armenian family consisting of a very handsome old man of Oriental type, wearing a new, cloth-covered, sheepskin coat and new boots, an old woman of similar type, and a young woman


    50. He was looking at the Armenian family and at two French soldiers who had gone up to them














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    Synonyms for "armenian"

    armenian armenian alphabet armenian language

    "armenian" definitions

    a native or inhabitant of Armenia


    the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan


    a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written


    of or pertaining to Armenia or the people or culture of Armenia