But one day a kavass of the Khedive swooped down on Manfaloot, and twenty young men were carried off in conscription.
For Fatima thought of the far-off time when she loved Hassan the potter, who had been dragged from his wheel by a kavass of conscription and lost among the sands of the Libyan desert; and she read the girl's story.
Hardly had the barber fled from the anger of Wassef, when a glittering kavass of the Mouffetish at Cairo passed by on a black errand of conscription.
Wassef's rage was quiet but effective, for he had whispered to some purpose in the ear of the Mamour as well as in that of the dreaded kavass of conscription.
He was still more puzzled when the Mamour whispered to him that Mahommed Selim had told the kavass and his own father that since it was the will of God, then the will of God was his will, and he would go.
The kavass bowled the fowl over neatly; and the same trick got us several dinners at a fair rate that journey, though naturally it could not be played in the same place twice.
The Consul's Serbian kavass begged most earnestly for permission to try "just one shot" in answer; but the Consul knew too well what the result of that one shot might be, and did not wish to kill.
Here the Consul's kavass hit on an ingenious expedient.
The kavass produced the rifle and made a sporting suggestion.
The kavass smiled; his look was agreeably mysterious, his manner humbly confidential, his tongue officially deliberate.
Will you not be seated," she said, and touched a chair as though to sit down, yet casting a doubtful glance at the squad of men and the brilliant kavass drawn up near by.
The thought of the Pasha merely nauseated him, but to the kavass he said: "What do you want, Mahommed?
The kavass handed him a huge blue envelope, salaaming impressively.
IV When he woke again it was to find at his bedside a kavass from Imshi Pasha at Cairo.
The kavass was greatly opposed to this; Monsieur was much excited; anything I required he was willing to try!
Nor, when you once know your way, do I think any guide or kavass necessary.
The kavass was greatly disappointed, as he wished to show them how to make a real English dinner.
The kavass showed it to the company and explained that, besides that, the English always ate a little piece of pig with an egg on it.
I returned in Servian, to his delight, and he explained to me that he was kavass to the British and Foreign Bible Society in Constantinople, and was home for a holiday.
Had he been a Papist, he would have been robbed; as it was, the frightened kavass lost all courage, and begged permission to return.
Grant left Mosul on the 7th of October, with two Nestorians from Persia, a Koordish muleteer, and a kavass from the Pasha.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kavass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
