Timur rose hastily from his seat, and flew to him as a lioness who discovers her lost cubs.

She saw a flame, with the face of Timur the Lame in it, descend into my body.

When it was daylight, Timur caused twenty-four huge machines, used for flinging blocks of stone, to be brought into operation.

Both Bajazet and Timur Lenk did what no conqueror of the world ever did before or after them.