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Example sentences for "janissary"

Lexicographically close words:
janders; jangle; jangled; jangling; janissaries; janitor; janitors; janitress; janizaries; janizary
  1. I met Hassan, the janissary of the American Consulate, a very respectable, good man.

  2. This Omar had been recommended to her by the janissary of the American Consul-General, and so far back as 1862, when in Alexandria, she mentions having engaged him, and his hopeful prophecy of the good her Nile life is to do her.

  3. Omar had told him that I refused to go with a janissary from the Consul for fear of giving offence to any very strict Muslims, which astonished him much.

  4. Before any purchases were made, however, the janissary moved on, and Foster had to follow.

  5. But I t'ink he knows de janissary officer what has charge ob de gang, an' if you don't know him Ali might be useful.

  6. This was fortunate, for the companion janissary was close to him when he wheeled round.

  7. About two hours later the door was again opened, and a man in the uniform of a janissary entered.

  8. As I knew not what the usual prices were, I requested a Janissary to give each what was right.

  9. They were under the special care of a mustapha or janissary of the U.

  10. The Janissary might now say whatever he would, the Sultan neither listened to nor answered him.

  11. The opposition of his august captive only restored the Janissary leader to his proper element.

  12. The despair of the Sultan emboldened the Janissary still further.

  13. But for long ages to come, if any Janissary warrior had a mind to speak haughtily, he would call himself "a flower from Begtash's garden.

  14. Most probably the whole Janissary host will want to go against Ali Pasha.

  15. But the Janissary Aga had left his wives and children in his palace, and these the rioters seized and murdered with the most excruciating tortures.

  16. The Janissary Aga was there, too, with the Komparajis from Tophana.

  17. Then all at once he seemed to bethink him of something, for his face seemed to lose its severity, and he turned towards the Janissary leader with a mild, indulgent look.

  18. Faith stands the name of the Janissary Aga!

  19. The Grand Vizier was sitting down to supper when the Janissary Aga rushed in and informed him of his danger.

  20. An increased transudation, with resulting oedema, is readily produced by preventing the flow of blood from a part, and may be directly observed with the microscope.

  21. Although thrombosis is commonly a morbid process, it is not uniformly so.

  22. The causes producing the two varieties are essentially those already described.

  23. At the close of his careful pamphlet, Mr. Urquhart makes an interesting distinction between Janissary and Turkish principles.

  24. Prince Cantimir of Moldavia[14] states that Ibrahim was a simple janissary of the 9th company.

  25. One day’s journey from the latter is the Kalaat el Katrane [Arabic], whose Odabashi is likewise a Janissary from Damascus.

  26. The Venetian was inhuman; the Janissary was devilish.

  27. I have known several men who lived in the island while the Janissary government was in full force, and who have testified to me of the occurrence of such horrors as no system of slavery known since the establishment of Christianity can show.

  28. No discipline entered on either side--the Janissary fought the partisan, and the superior enthusiasm of liberty turned the scale in favor of the Christian.

  29. It was about eleven in the morning when the janissary called for me, I followed him, and this time I found Bonneval dressed in the Turkish style.

  30. Bonneval of all that had occurred; he was delighted, and promised that his janissary would be every day at the Venetian palace, ready to execute my orders.

  31. The day after our arrival, I took a janissary to accompany me to Osman Pacha, of Caramania, the name assumed by Count de Bonneval ever since he had adopted the turban.

  32. The second day after my first visit to him being a Thursday, the pacha did not forget to send a janissary according to his promise.

  33. He invited me to dine with him every Thursday, and undertook to send me a janissary who would protect me from the insults of the rabble and shew me everything worth seeing.

  34. I observed that she tried to avoid the eyes of the janissary who was walking behind me; I gave her one piaster, she left me, and I proceeded toward Yusuf's house.

  35. I spent a pleasant day with Yusuf, and when I left him, I ordered my janissary to take me to Ismail's.

  36. One morning, I told my janissary to take me to the palace of Ismail Effendi, in order to fulfil my promise to breakfast with him.

  37. The rolling of drums throughout the foot regiments was mingled with responses from trumpets, crooked horns, and kettledrums, and also the hellish noise of a Janissary orchestra, and the neighing of horses.

  38. This is what I would write to all at Belchantska if I were in Yatsek's position; and if he does not write it, may the first Janissary disembowel me if I do not write it in my own name and yours to Pan Gideon.

  39. The first siege was repelled by the bravery of the garrison, by the heroism of Count Salm its commander, by the terrible weather of 1529, and also through turbulence of the Janissary forces.

  40. We sent Mohammed and the janissary on shore, to see what could be done.

  41. The janissary spoke very tolerable English, and after sunset, when we seated ourselves outside the cabin-door, he came forward and entered into conversation.

  42. The comments made by the janissary and our own servant upon those who were guilty of such wanton brutality showed the feeling which it elicited; and when upon one occasion Miss E.

  43. The military dress, which was that worn by the janissary and our servant, is both graceful and becoming.

  44. Both he and the janissary apparently had formed magnificent ideas of the wealth of Great Britain, from the lavish manner in which the English are accustomed to part with their money while travelling.

  45. The janissary who accompanied us, and who was clothed in red, had a much more military air.

  46. He then asked us what we had called the Mughreebee whom we had described to him: we replied, a magician; and he and the janissary repeated the word over many times, in order to make themselves thoroughly acquainted with it.

  47. That fellow behind your chair may be a Janissary with a bow-string in his plush breeches pocket.

  48. The Greek peasant slowly began to regain ground upon his Moslem lord, and he profited further by the degeneration of the janissary corps at the heart of the empire.

  49. The accomplice of the Janissary came a few days later for his share of the money.

  50. It happened that a Jew one day came to the Janissary and said to him: "Do you want to make a fortune?

  51. The Janissary immediately bethought him of Avram, the tinsmith, and accused him as his informant, and the Chacham, satisfied, paid the sum and departed.

  52. The poor smith was arrested, tried, and condemned to be bowstrung, as it was proved that the Janissary was last seen to enter his shop.

  53. Besides, the janissary of the Consulate had showed us the way to his house.

  54. There is always a custom-house examination, not on entering, but on issuing from an Oriental city, but travellers can avoid it by procuring the company of a Consular Janissary as far as the gate.

  55. Kabakulak beckoned to Halil to sit on his left hand, the others were so arranged that each one of them sat between a couple of Janissary officers.

  56. All around sat the Spahi and Janissary officers with their swords in their hands.

  57. By this time the Janissary was beside himself with rage at so much opposition.

  58. The new Janissary Aga was shot dead within his own gates.

  59. Who ever heard of summoning a Janissary away from his camp?

  60. The giant stood among the Janissaries and inquired in a voice of thunder: "Which of you common Janissary fellows goes by the name of Halil Patrona?

  61. By this time not only the caldron of the first but the caldron of the fifth Janissary regiment had been erected in the midst of the camp.

  62. The Janissary Aga could hear this bellowing quite plainly, but he also could hear the Janissary guard in front of the tent laughing loudly at the fellow and making all he said unintelligible.

  63. Halil Patrona, by the way, was still wearing his old Janissary uniform, the blue dolman with the salavari reaching to the knee, leaving the calves bare.

  64. Just at this moment they stopped in front of the house of the Janissary Aga.

  65. All the Janissary officers evidently were on Halil Patrona's side.

  66. The eyes of the Grand Vizier and the Khan surveyed the ranks of the Janissary officers, while Halil's faithful adherents began to assemble round their leader.

  67. If any one wishes to experience the fall, so to speak, in the temperature of the feeling of awe produced by the change from an Oriental to a European garb let him visit the Museum of the Janissary Costumes.

  68. I have a sergeant who executed Azya, the son of Tugai Bey, and who in these matters is exquisitissimus; but, to my thinking, the janissary has told the truth in everything.

  69. From that fosse there went against the walls an unceasing fire from janissary muskets.

  70. The rattle of janissary musketry did not cease till evening.

  71. Seeing this, a third fired at the little knight from a janissary musket, and missed; but the little knight struck him with his sword-edge between nose and mouth, and this deprived him of precious life.

  72. Pan Mushalski was standing outside the wall in a white cap and armor, so much like a real janissary that one's eyes were slow in belief.

  73. They held their breath; after a while the air whistled again, and a second janissary fell on the scow.

  74. A struggle began then between muskets and janissary guns.

  75. But he was not the man to be intimidated--a large man, with broad shoulders, an arrogant expression and a bristling beard; they say he had the appearance of a janissary in clerical garb.

  76. My Janissary was so delighted, that, he swore if he had only had two glasses of wine he would fire his pistols right and left.

  77. My father asserted that he was the bravest janissary in the sultan's employ, and had greatly distinguished himself.

  78. The groups of archers on either hand, shooting at their human mark, under the superintendence of a Janissary in Eastern dress,[25] are full of movement and variety.

  79. The drawing of the man serves for the Janissary in the "Martyrdom of St. Sebastian," reversed, and the arm slightly altered.


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