As the procession leaves the Seraglio at sunrise, we rose with the first streak of dawn, descended to Tophaneh, and crossed to Seraglio Point, where the cavass of the Embassy was in waiting for us.
The cavass took us into a chamber near the gate, and commanding a view of the whole court.
A gorgeous cavass in sky blue and carrying a wand of office was installed on board for the rest of the voyage to Assouan.
The Esneh cavass was useful as well as extremely ornamental, as he kept off the wild crowd in the village by magical waves of his wand of office, and an occasional thump on a screaming villager.
The cavass gave them, and the doctor’s assistant going to the shop saw them, and seeing the date, took them, and then the doctor got them.
The nine culprits, three soldiers with fixed bayonets before, three soldiers with ditto behind, and a mounted cavass on each flank, are wending their way to the lines through the market.
But they soon returned, and it was all we could do to prevent the poor cavass from being maltreated.
The cavass given us was consequently a stranger, and might be good or bad, useful or useless, for anything we knew.
Thus we are no longer wholly dependent on our old cavass and on ourselves.
Hajji Mohammed was commissioned in the course of the morning to negotiate terms with the Kaïd, who had been already sounding the cavass as to how much money could be got from us.
We and the cavass stood a little apart from the rest, holding our horses, ready to fire and mount, and Wilfrid occupied the interval of expectation with giving me instructions what to do if we got separated in the fray.
This man, the Cavass Bashee, lived entirely by plunder and rapine.
On the river's bank he was overtaken by the Cavass Bashee, who allowed him to reach the middle of the stream, when he ordered him to dismount, threatening to shoot him if he did not comply.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
