Lexicographical Neighbors of Handjar
Literary usage of Handjar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek : Written at the Close of the 18th Century by Thomas Hope (1836)
"... and in return take this handjar studded with diamonds, this order on the Bey's
harem at Cairo for two thousand sequins, and this signet of our patron's ..."
2. The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon, Gerald Prance (1905)
"But in border fighting the handjar is always taken, and, when time permits, ...
He took the handjar between his teeth and a musket in his hands, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"... the place of the handjar, and his feet are clothed in the crimson slipper or
boot. Next comes the despised and humiliated Jew, whose sallow countenance, ..."
4. The Balkans from Within by Reginald Wyon (1904)
"When the woman learnt of their fate she took her husband's handjar and sharpened it
... Quietly she drew the terrible handjar from the folds of her dress, ..."
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