Only a few months had, however, elapsed since the Beys of Bitlis, who had longest resisted the Turkish arms, had been captured.
The Pasha had summoned to his aid all the tribes that still owned his authority; his tents were crowded with Arab Sheikhs from the plains, and Kurdish Beys from the mountains.
I therefore assured him that my meeting with the two Beys was quite accidental that the unpleasant reception which I experienced at Mahass was on their account; and that I entertained fears of their designs against my life.
I understand that you treated with two of the Mamelouk Beys at Ibrim; was it so?
The Mameluke Beys who favour exclusively English commerce, whose extortions oppress our merchants, and who tyrannise over the unfortunate inhabitants of the Nile, a few days after our arrival will no longer exist.
The last three were governed by beys dependent upon the representative of the Porte resident at Algiers.
The wealthier inhabitants have summer residences at Beilan near the summit of the pass, long a stronghold of freebooting Dere Beys and the scene of the victory won by Ibrahim Pasha in 1832, which opened Cilicia to his advance.
He entered Miliana and Medea, where he installed beys of his own choice.
He negotiated directly with the bey of Tunis with a view to installing as beys at Oran and Constantine Tunisian princes who recognized the authority of France.
Ottoman governor till within the present generation, surviving by many years the fall of the other great Beys of Anatolia.
He continued to carry off spahis and Egyptian beys till at last cries of "Hamdi!
The beys were everywhere suppressed, or were allowed to draw their incomes only for the term of their lives.
The Turks thereupon evacuated Thessaly, and with them departed the last of the Moslem beysor landowners.
The beys Bardissi and L'Elfi addressed me, covetous not only of the possession of the woman, but also of her wealth.
From Youssouf Bey and Taher Pacha the Mameluke Beys have nothing to fear; I know them, and know that they are poor soldiers; but of you, Mohammed Ali, I have a different opinion.
The Mameluke beys have left the city in wild flight!
On the following morning, a body of soldiers marches out and surrounds the quarter of the city in which the Mameluke beys reside.
Go to your master and tell him this: `Lord Hutchinson demands that all the captured Mameluke beys be immediately brought to the shore and placed under his protection.
If we succeed, and when this formidable enemy shall have become our ally, the Mameluke beys will have great cause to congratulate themselves, and thank Sitta Nefysseh again.
She had come over to Alexandria from Aboukir, and she it was who first brought the intelligence of the fearful event that had occurred, who first announced to the English general that the beys had fallen victims to infamous treachery.
Just as you think and say, have I determined, and I have informed these insolent beys that I will not grant them a respite of five months, nor of five weeks; no, not of five days.
There, at the head of four thousand Mamelukes, surrounded by a body of beysand kachefs, comes Osman Bey Bardissi, the hero of so many battles.
THE life of the Mameluke beys had for months been a continuous festival.
The two beys awaited her decision with wildly-throbbing hearts.
There they can live more comfortably and conveniently than up in the citadel; and the Mameluke beys are in the habit of attaching more importance to their comfort than the rest of the world.
Many of the beys had brought their wives with them, for the wives of the beys enjoyed greater liberty than those of the Turks, and they could move about among the tents, with as little constraint as in the streets of Cairo.
Walk arm-in-arm through the Muskj Street, that all the world may see that the two greatest Mameluke beys are friends.
He wrote to all the French consuls on the coast of Barbary to inform the beys that the Emir Hadgi was appointed, and that the caravans might set out.
These beys were under the control of a Turkish pasha, whose council was formed of seven Turkish chiefs, while one of the Mamluk beys held the post of Sheikh el-Beled or Governor of the Metropolis.
Towards the middle of the eighteenth century the authority of the Turkish pashas had become merely nominal, while that of the beys had increased to such an extent that the government of Egypt became a military oligarchy.
The faces of the three beys lighted up when they saw the damsels being rowed on the water, and Mukhtar Bey whispered roguishly in Sulaiman's ear, "Shall we make the old man also one of our party?
Morrison objected, very pertinently, that as the beys were not deceased the Sultan could scarcely be looked upon as their heir.
The beys were seized the same night in the midst of their joys, and dragged from the paradise of their hopes to be thrown into a dungeon.
The beys rejoiced greatly at the tidings of the five millions, and embraced Dirham, who did his best to attribute all the merit of the deed to Tepelenti for sending the money so magnanimously.
Society was polarized between land-owning fat cats, the beys and militant archconservative bajraktars led by Ahmed Bey Zogu from Mat in the north.
King Zog rule of beys and bajraktars aided by a ruthless police, a Byzantine bureaucracy (a major employer) and Italian money did stabilize the country, including to the bandit and brigand-ridden highlands.
Peasants were handed tiny plots of land taken from the broken estates of the former beys in an ambitious agrarian reform.
Sen Virgyll beys wydquhar in Latyn soung, Thus be my laubour red in owr wlgar toung.
That helpyt mekyl; and Dyores evir onon 30 Chydis for hym fast, for alsmekill as he The thryd place than had wonnyn and the gre; Bot all for nocht may he the last pryce beleif, Gyf that to Salyus the fyrst reward beys geyf.
Capelan's object in giving his daughter to Tepeleni was to enlist him among the beys of the province to gain independence, the ruling passion of viziers.
Ali's first care, once master of Janina, was to annihilate the beys forming the aristocracy of the place, whose hatred he was well aware of, and whose plots he dreaded.
His death sentences always fell on beys and wealthy persons whom he wished to plunder.
Ali received the seventy-two beys with all marks of friendship when they arrived at Janina.
It was in the place of the Roumayli that the gallant band of the Mameluke beys were assembled before they were entrapped and killed by the present task-master of Egypt, Mohammed Ali Pasha.
These terms were accepted by the Beys of Tunis and Tripoli, and the two first demands were granted by the Dey of Algiers.
Of these chiefs or beys there were twenty-four; each one of whom ruled over a separate district; who often warred with each other; and were as often in rebellion against their nominal sovereign.
Al-Alfi was at that time besieging Damanhur, and he gained a signal victory over the pasha's troops; but the dissensions of the beys destroyed their last chance of a return to power.
An attempt made by a subsequent pasha in accordance with secret orders from Constantinople was so far successful that some of the beys were killed.
Mehemet Ali, meanwhile, was conducting an expedition against the beys in Upper Egypt, and he had defeated them near Assiut, when he heard of the arrival of the British.
This massacre was the signal for an indiscriminate slaughter of the Mamelukes throughout Egypt, orders to this effect being transmitted to every governor; and in Cairo itself the houses of the beys were given over to the soldiery.
In that capacity he executed the murderer of his former master Ibrahim; but the resentment which this act aroused among the beys caused him to leave his post and fly to Syria, where he won the friendship of the governor of Acre, Zahir b.
The heads of the beys were sent to Constantinople.
The beys became divided in their wishes, one party being desirous of co-operating with the British, the other with the pasha.
His proposals were received with enthusiasm by the beyswhom he had created.
While these scenes were being enacted, al-Alfi was besieging Damanhur, and the other beys were returning towards Cairo, Khorshid having called them to his assistance; but Mehemet Ali forced them to retreat.
The Nubians say that the Divan is to be held in the Citadel and that the road by which the Memlook Beys left it is not stopped up, though perhaps it goes underground nowadays.
By his extraordinary vigour and intelligence he became the ruler of Lower Egypt, and succeeded in attaching the Mameluke Beys to his person.
None would save themselves and leave their master, and as one of the Beys was presenting his own horse to him, a Tartar emir with a body of horsemen surrounded the small group of the Ottomans and they were prisoners.
As for the rest-- contumacious and bellicose beys and sheikhs of Kurdish hills and Syrian steppes--their hour of surrender was yet to come.
These irregulars were commanded by Dervisch Bey, one of the principal Beys in that neighbourhood.
It was therefore decided to entrust to Niazi and Eyoub Beys the special duty of removing Osman Pasha from Monastir as suddenly and quietly as possible, so as to allow no time for the organisation of opposition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
