You may reach Serai point on a winter's morning in a driving snow-storm, so that everything is hidden in the gray veil of the falling flakes; suddenly the clouds will part and the sunlight will fall full upon the city, so that it seems as if every mosque and spire were built of diamonds.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
Then we took it down to the point below Top Kapu Serai, where the waters are swift and deep.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
The sun is risen, the birds are singing, the Jews are wrangling in the bazaar, the dogs are fighting at Galata Serai, and, last of all, your brother, Alexander Patoff, is at this moment drinking his coffee in my rooms.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford