The Turkish governors were in the 17th century replaced by deys (see below, History.
The kasbah was begun in 1516 on the site of an older building, and served as the palace of the deys until the French conquest.
Algiers was a walled city from the time of the deys until the close of the 19th century.
All my other w'ite folks is gone; my sister done gone too, and my son; all de chillun dat I had, deys done daid too.
But, Miss I done told you all I knows 'bout Marse Alec and dem deys when I lived on his plantation.
If de nigger stubborn, deys whips 'nough for to change his mind.
Thus thei dryvele at hirdeys The Deitee to knowe, And gnawen God with the gorge, Whanne hir guttes fullen.
Deys jus as brave and fine as dey ever bin, but cose, sir, hit change um.
The Deys had been rendered very hostile, and from them there was constant danger of attack.
On Sunday, November 10, the report was circulated that the Deys were crossing the Mesurado River, and at night it became known that seven or eight hundred were on the peninsula only half a mile to the west.
Even so the Deys might have won the engagement if they had not stopped too soon to gather plunder.
Take the Deysat the beginning of the eighteenth century.
The last still continue to reign; but the Deys of Algiers have given place to the French, and the Bey of Tunis is under French tutelage.
It climbs and clambers by tortuous lanes and steep staircases up the sheer side of a high hill to the old fortress of the Deys that crowns the summit.
The city of the Deys looks almost like a chalk-pit on the slope of an English down; only a chalk-pit in relief, built out, not hewn inwards.
Cordin to my membrance dare want none of dem charryots in dem deys epsepting Lijah's, und hit warn't hitched to no hosses.
If the Deys of Tunis and Tripoli should attempt to throw off their allegiance to the Sultan on the plea that the Porte prohibits the slave traffic, would England hurry to recognize the Deys as belligerents?
Many and various were the vexations to which the hostility of the Deys subjected the unhappy adventurers; in the mere act of obtaining water (for which purpose they had to pass through the enemy's town) their obstacles were endless.
Leaving that matter in abeyance, Exmouth sailed on to Tripoli and Tunis, whose Deys he found more amenable to reason, and who consented to make declarations in the form demanded by the British Admiral upon all three points.
Among these Barbary Powers the Deys of Algiers had long been the most powerful and the most truculent.
The ruffianly Deys made little attempt to conceal the piratical nature of their proceedings, and became a perfect scourge not only to the mariners of all nations in the Mediterranean, but also to the unfortunate inhabitants of its shores.
As deys went, Achmet was a comparatively respectable man.
It was a common thing for the Deys and his chief officers to keep lion-pups as pets, but as a rule these were chained up on becoming too large to be safe playthings.
I have more than once warned Achmet of what is plotting, for he has been kinder to my people than most of the Deys who preceded him, but he is strangely slow in guarding himself.
How the Deys tolerated him has ever remained a matter of surprise to the thoughtful.
True, this was in the year 1683, but up to the very end of their bloody and ferocious domination, the Deys maintained their character for ignorance and barbarity--evidence of which shall be given in the sequel of our tale.
What care theDeys of Algiers for the persons of consuls, which you deem so sacred?
Deys a fass pinto hoss hitched to a poss in de yard--a hoss dat de owner don't seem to understand nohow.
Deys playin' three-card monte in the bah room, but 'taint no squar game.
Therle Marchall knelyng on the samedeys upon the left side of the Quene, held another sceptre of the Quenes upright.
Therle of March knelyng upon thedeys on the right side of the Quene, held a sceptre upright of the Quenes.
De quarters am built from logs likedeys all in dem days.
An' I sez to de Lawd, when He opens the doah, Dat deys no mo' trouble fo' me!
Foh de Chilian's growed so big dat deys forgot me, Kase I'se ole an' cannot wok foh dem no mo'!
An old Christian slave who perceived things differently could sometimes be heard to mumble, "Yeah, wese jest as good as deys is only deys white and we's black, huh.
More and more vessels were sent, until at last theDeys and Beys and Pachas thought it would be cheaper to behave themselves properly.
Their people were Mohammedans, and were ruled over by persons called Deysor Beys, or Pachas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
