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Example sentences for "bimbashi"

Lexicographically close words:
bilocular; bils; bilt; biltong; bimana; bime; bimeby; bimetallic; bimetallism; bimetallists
  1. Joyce was a martinet at drill, and the blacks loved being drilled, so the Bimbashi was soon popular among them.

  2. The Bimbashi scratched his head in bewilderment.

  3. And just at that very time, Bimbashi Hilary Joyce, seconded from the Royal Mallow Fusiliers, and temporarily attached to the Ninth Soudanese, made his first appearance in Cairo.

  4. I delighted the heart of the bimbashi by a baksheesh of half a napoleon, which so astonished him that he hardly knew how to express himself, after all his bitter words and unkind intentions.

  5. Illustration] The Bimbashi acted with all energy.

  6. He has served in the Egyptian Artillery under Bimbashi Mortimer.

  7. I told Tippy Tilly that, if he could help us, we would turn him into a Bimbashi when we got him back into Egypt.

  8. They were everything I desired, and Bimbashi Kiazim Bey, Commandant of Yozgad, was clearly recognizable in each.

  9. It is an exceptional Turk who is a busybody—they are too lazy to interfere with affairs that are not their concern—and the gold epaulettes on Bimbashi Kiazim Bey’s uniform would be guarantee enough of our respectability.

  10. Bimbashi Kiazim Bey spent the afternoon in learning his speech by heart, and delivered it in great style at the dinner that night, to the accompaniment of uproarious cheering, which we could hear from our room.

  11. Kiazim Bey, Bimbashi of Turkish Artillery and Commandant of our camp, was the most nebulous official in Asia.

  12. The bimbashi rushed out with a blanket round his head and shoulders and tried to kick men out of another tent to make room for him, and failing to do that he scrambled in on top of them.

  13. So that there was little extra argument required to induce one of our Turkish officer prisoners--the bimbashi himself, in fact--to write the letter to Wassmuss that Ranjoor Singh required.

  14. The bimbashi tried to pistol Ranjoor Singh, and died for his trouble on a trooper's bayonet.

  15. Mr. Hartley, let me introduce you to Mr. Hilliard--I should say Bimbashi Hilliard.

  16. The Bimbashi is a good master, and I would die for him.

  17. The bimbashi undertook the work of seizing the officer bearing the order.

  18. The bimbashi and the beys were great men in their eyes, and they doubtless think that they are quite important persons at Constantinople.

  19. It was the work of the bimbashi and Ahmed.

  20. None of the soldiers would know that the bimbashi was mixed up in the affair at all.

  21. On the 26th January, the Bimbashi of the 2nd battalion of the regiment arrived from Kartoum to replace the Bimbashi who had been killed.

  22. This morning, in spite of my orders not to leave the lines, Bourré must needs send out men, and the consequence was that I have a Bimbashi and six men wounded, however I think I have stopped these excursions for the future.

  23. In the confusion the Bimbashi was killed, some accounts say by his own men, others by the enemy.

  24. So it was also that the bimbashi went back to his regiment with all his limbs intact.

  25. Your son shall ride for me through the desert even to Farafreh, and bear a letter to the bimbashi there.

  26. Where the bimbashi and his officers were afraid to go lest the bald-headed eagle and the vulture should carry away their heads as tit- bits to the Libyan hills, Seti was sent.

  27. He had outlived all the officers who left Manfaloot with the regiment save the bimbashi, and the bimbashi was superstitious and believed that while Seti lived he would live.

  28. He even boldly offered to tell the pasha where half his own ill-gotten gains were hid, if he would let the bimbashi go.

  29. But I had been riding Bimbashi 30 miles or so a day, and we were both in fine hard condition.

  30. Bimbashi could trot 16 miles in the hour.

  31. I rode one of my camels, Bimbashi or Ballyhooly or Beelzebub, or my donkey, County Waterford, so named because the second time I contested him I lost my seat: a political allegory.

  32. Bimbashi (according to my journal) covered the six miles in a little over eighteen minutes.

  33. The other officers remonstrated, saying that, if they marched in the dark through an unknown country, they would all be killed, and on the Bimbashi remaining firm, five of them went at once on the sick list.

  34. On the 26th, another Bimbashi arrived to replace the one who had been killed.

  35. One of them, as he passed, swung some weapon at him, striking the bimbashi flat-wise on the shoulder.

  36. But Bimbashi Jones had a piece of outrageously bad luck at Cairo.

  37. Every one of the wounded British officers quickly recovered; even several whom the bimbashi knew to have been killed turned up again (without causing him any surprise) to shake the hero by the hand.

  38. When the bimbashi returned to conscious existence, the battle of Atbara, or Nakheila, was over.

  39. A mile and a second mile the bimbashi covered, now running, now forcing his way through dense scrub, now stopping a moment to recover breath.

  40. I surrender to no one but the Sirdar or Bimbashi Jones!

  41. Where the bimbashi and his officers were afraid to go lest the bald-headed eagle and the vulture should carry away their heads as tit-bits to the Libyan hills, Seti was sent.

  42. The bimbashi was responsible for all; he was an Englishman, let him get water for them, or die like the rest of them--perhaps before them!

  43. This was the reason that Wyndham bimbashi and his Gippies, and the Sheikh and his household, faced the fact, the morning after Hassan left, that there was scarce a goolah of water for a hundred burning throats.

  44. Now that his cup of mistakes was full, Wyndham bimbashi would willingly have made the attempt to carry word to the garrison there.

  45. A question by the Bimbashi as to whether plaintiff's counsel had received his professional costs from the Fair Girl was disallowed by the learned judge.

  46. This being given, the Bimbashi severely taxed the witness as to her means of support, and several times the learned judge had to intervene on plaintiff's behalf.

  47. Mr. Sykes summed up in a manner so scathing that the Bimbashi was heard to interrupt the court by saying that he wished both Mr. Sykes and he himself had never been born.

  48. And just at that very time Bimbashi Hilary Joyce, seconded from the Royal Mallow Fusiliers, and temporarily attached to the Ninth Soudanese, made his first appearance in Cairo.


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