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Example sentences for "firman"

Lexicographically close words:
firma; firmam; firmament; firmamental; firmaments; firmans; firme; firmed; firmely; firmer
  1. Still, the only lasting achievement of the mission was to extract from Akman a firman granting Jesuits the right to free exercise of the Catholic religion.

  2. I think he wants to stop the firman too, why I don't know, but he's succeeded so far.

  3. And how many of your king's frigates will we see yearly if we grant him the trading firman he requests?

  4. And when do you think he's planning to sign the firman approving English trade?

  5. With the Portuguese resistance neutralized--there were even rumors that Arangbar had ordered Father Sarmento back to Goa--there would be no voices in Agra to poison Arangbar's mind daily against the firman for King James.

  6. He just may try to hold you here until it comes, or refuse to grant a firman until he sees the next batch of presents.

  7. But if the firman were signed, there would no longer be leverage with the Portuguese.

  8. He would bargain for a firman in exchange for a vague promise of King James's help against the Portuguese.

  9. I'll have the firman soon, and when I return the East India Company will .

  10. You'll never get a firman from the Moghul.

  11. Arangbar will never sign a firman for the English king to trade.

  12. If His Majesty signs the firman before the wedding, you will be held responsible.

  13. I'm betting on a firman from Arangbar, and soon.

  14. You'll receive my first firman for trade.

  15. There'll certainly be no trading firman for him now, or ever.

  16. Your firman should be little more than a formality now, Ambassador.

  17. CRUEL KING COAL and his merry men, Twenty and five fat rogues were they, Cabbaged fourpence a chaldron first, then ten, And a penny to boot made poor folks pay.

  18. Even the load that a donkey draws, These fellows do tax, and tithe, and toll, Twenty miles around London Town; by laws Through Parliament slipped by sly KING COAL.

  19. I replied that my journey had no worldly aims, that I required nothing of anybody, but that for the safety of my person I had brought with me a firman provided with the tugra (the Sultan's seal).

  20. Again, in 1856, after the Crimean war, the Hatti Houmaioum Firman announced among other things the complete equality in the eyes of the law of the Christians and Mussulmans in Turkey.

  21. When the firman reached the king of Egypt, he prepared and arranged his troops, before the arrival of the English army at Alexandria, for this is the route to India.

  22. This firman will complete our command over the Persian Gulf and the Arabian seas, and enable our cruisers to intercept the slavers from the eastern shore of Africa.

  23. The perseverance of the Minister and his agents in Persia has been crowned with complete success; the Schah has issued a firman prohibiting the Slave Trade in his territories.

  24. To the requisitions contained in this firman it was incumbent upon those to whom it was addressed to pay implicit obedience.

  25. In a few days the firman or letter of the patriarch arrived, and I packed my things and got ready to start.

  26. See text of Firman in Loewe: Diaries of Sir M.

  27. We have seen every thing but the mosques, which we are to view with a firman on Tuesday next.

  28. The mosques I shall have a firman to visit.

  29. DEAR MADAM,--As I have received a firman for Egypt, etc.

  30. On the contrary, we believe this to be almost the only part of the Turkish dominions in which a firman is not necessary; since the passport of the Pacha is absolute within his territory (according to Mr. G.

  31. I made an agreement with the Turkish proprietor of the land, and prepared to set to work when the firman should arrive.

  32. A few weeks after this cold blooded murder took place, Firman McIlvaine had the audacity to boast of the deed, declaring positively that Frank had been hung by his express orders.

  33. The Vigilance Committee, with Firman McIlvaine at its head, was formed ostensibly for the mutual protection against plunderers; yet some bad men were in it.

  34. Castleman being intimate with Firman McIlvaine, detained Frank until he had time to send McIlvaine word, and then basely betrayed him into the merciless hands of the vigilant mob.

  35. Firman McIlvaine and Joe McGahan succeeded in getting eighty soldiers from Ironton to aid in my capture.

  36. To carry out the darling object I had in view—that of killing Firman McIlvaine—I went to Flat river, and after remaining several days, I took a pone of bread for my rations and walked to his farm on Big river after night.

  37. I heard Firman McIlvaine‘s name called several times, and very distinctly heard his replies and knew his voice.

  38. Les-seps, who had already received a firman of concession from Said Pasha.

  39. Through a firman of the Divan of Constantinople, which had been published officially to the European Powers, he knew that his secret relations with Mustapha Pasha of Scodra had become known.

  40. The capital, according to the statistics of the company, approved in the firman of the concession, was to consist of forty million dollars in shares of one hundred dollars each.

  41. Mehemet himself was in command of an army in the Hedjaz when Latif Pasha arrived, bearing a firman of investiture to the pashalic of Egypt.

  42. But being armed with a firman from the Porte, and with an official escort we pass on without serious trouble.

  43. The Kurds persistently asserted that a firman for the slaughter of Christians had been given, but that the Christians of Mardin had bribed the government to conceal it and defend them.

  44. A few days later the Sultan issues a firman in which he promises again that he will maintain all the rights and privileges of the Greek Christians, and appeals to his allies.

  45. Instead of the powerful champion which they lost the poor Christians of the empire were granted another firman in which the Sultan repeated all his lying promises of former years.

  46. For this purpose having defended her integrity they made also her independence secure, and they devised at Constantinople the reforms which were publicly enacted in an imperial Firman or Hati Humayoun.

  47. A firman from the Khedive to the Mudirs, the notables, and the people was read, ordering them to obey Lord Wolseley, "who had been sent to the Soudan to carry out such military operations as he might consider necessary.

  48. No sooner was Egypt rid of Ismail Pasha, than the Firman of investiture of Tewfik was solemnly read at the Citadel in Cairo with great state and ceremony.

  49. By this firman he was empowered to carry into execution the evacuation of the respective territories and the withdrawal of the troops, civil officials, and such of the inhabitants as wished to leave for Egypt.

  50. When the Firman reached Cairo it somehow leaked out that it differed in important particulars from what it ought to have been, and before the precious document, for which LE.

  51. Although on the death of Tewfik the new Khedive was de jure as well as de facto the ruler of Egypt, his recognition by an Imperial Firman from the Porte was a formality which nevertheless had to be observed.

  52. Gordon's final instructions were given him by the Egyptian Government in a firman appointing him Governor-General.

  53. It was given out that the Firman would not be sent until after the approaching fast of "Ramadan," and the British Admiral, as if tired of waiting, withdrew his ships and put to sea.

  54. Translation of a Firman of Departure, literally translated from the Original Arabic, by James Grey Jackson.

  55. Translation of a Firman of Departure, literally translated from the original Arabic, by J.

  56. No Christian is allowed to enter the mosque, or even its enclosure, on penalty of death, and even the firman of the Sultan has failed to obtain admission for a Frank.

  57. A priest met us at the entrance, and after reading the firman with a very discontented face, informed us that we could not enter until the mid-day prayers were concluded.

  58. The firman has never been recalled, though in every place but Jerusalem it remains a dead letter.

  59. In consequence of the warnings of danger in everybody's mouth, we decided to take an escort, and therefore waited upon the commander of the forces, with the firman of the Pasha of Aleppo.

  60. I accordingly went to him again, and exhibited the firman of the Pasha of Jerusalem, which he read, stating that, even without it, he would have felt it his duty to grant our request.

  61. In fact, in the firman which he has since sent us, we are mentioned as "nobles.

  62. The same night arrived a firman from the sultan, proclaiming Ibrahim Pasha of Allahissar.

  63. Mole accordingly folded the firman again, placed it to his forehead, and then to his heart, bowing all the time with the most profound respect.

  64. Show me the forgery you dare to call the firman of his sublime majesty, the sultan.

  65. An international Commission assembled in Bucharest in 1857, together with a Divan convoked by an Imperial Firman for Moldavia and Wallachia, to consider the question of the future position of the Danubian Principalities.

  66. In the first place, it does not follow, because the sultan has granted permission for the survey, that he will afterwards, supposing it to be found practicable, grant a firman for the accomplishment of the work.

  67. At the receipt of the firman of execution he leaped with joy, and flew to Delvino to seize the prey which was abandoned to him.

  68. The Porte, while sending to Ali the firman which restored to him the government of Thessaly, ordered him to seek out and destroy a society of coiners who dwelt within his jurisdiction.

  69. Whilst awaiting the arrival of the firman of pardon which Ali was reassured must arrive from Constantinople without fail, the keeper of the wardrobe advised him to seek an interview with Kursheed.

  70. He requested Elmas Bey to honour him by wearing this robe on the day when the sultan's envoy should present him with the firman of investiture, and Chainitza herself was charged to deliver both gifts and messages.

  71. Nevertheless, time passed on, and neither the Seraskier nor the firman appeared.

  72. Having pitched his tent out of range of Ali's cannon, he proclaimed aloud the firman which inaugurated him as Pacha of Janina and Delvino, and then raised the tails, emblem of his dignity.

  73. An imperial firman was therefore procured for his banishment to Cesarea, whither Hohannes had been sent, six years before, for a like offense.

  74. A firman was now given him, and he reached Mosul in safety on the 29th of March.

  75. Through priestly interference, he failed in three successive attempts to procure a house, and at last secured a contract for one only on condition of obtaining a firman from Constantinople.

  76. Boré was enraged, and replied that, having a firman from the King of Persia permitting him to open schools, he should open one at Ardishai.

  77. These letters were dated in the first month of 1824, and the firman against the circulation of the Scriptures was issued by the Grand Seignior very soon after.

  78. It has been stated that the Turkish government had refused a firman to Dr.


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