It was pitiful to see even two of the hated pashas so weak with lack of food.
Truly it was time to come to terms," he said, "when the pashas snatch a loaf as they go by.
During the whole morning, there were repeated discharges of the artillery which bothpashas had brought with them.
The Turkish pashas were too much intent upon plundering every one within the range of their power to offer any effectual resistance.
The native pashas set his advice and authority at defiance, plundered the troops, the people, and the government, and acted more like the allies of Russia than generals or dignitaries of Turkey.
The Sultan issued an indignant manifesto, declaring war against France for invading one of his provinces in a time of peace and amity; and called upon the Pashas of Syria to collect their forces.
His Holiness was then conducted to the gate of the Seraglio, presented with a richly caparisoned horse, and led by viziers and pashas to the palace appointed as his residence.
Military pashaseven made war on and concluded peace with each other, after the manner of mediæval dynasts.
His Holiness was then conducted to the gate of the Seraglio, presented with a richly caparisoned horse, and led by viziers and pashas to the palace allotted to him as residence.
That was how Kingsley got started in the world again, how he went mining in the desert afar, where pashas and mamours could not worry him.
The Padishah has but to nod, and pashas and princes become slaves, beggars, or corpses.
The Pashas of Grosswardein and Temesvar, the Lord-Marchers, and the Tartar Khan have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to invade Transylvania from all sides at a moment's notice.
The Pashas of former times (now it is different) gladly interfered on these occasions, to impose heavy fines upon the weaker party, and to sell impunity to the strong, who were quite ready to begin fresh disturbances the next day.
When the Turks came to Gaza the Pashasonly lost the serai and barracks, their other property was not interfered with.
During the occupancy of the Pashas of Gaza, one of them (of the fourth family Ridwan) desired to procure the inn and bath belonging to the Samaritan community.
These Pashas had their own burying ground, which is still seen, and known as the Pashas' cemetery.
Nor were there wanting many among the Pashas themselves who were easily taught to look with distrust and suspicion on the threatened rivalry of the young and high-spirited Mustapha; and who readily enlisted in the adverse party.
What a confusion of Pashas and Beys—of Excellencies and Effendis!
Mehemet Ali of Egypt, who had faithfully fought his sovereign's battles in Arabia and the Morea, held his services ill requited and his claim to be increased beyond other pashas ignored, and proceeded to take what had not been granted.
From the cessation of the rebellion in 1815 onwards he himself personally conducted negotiations in the name of his people with the various pashas who were deputed to deal with him.
The pashas think much of our men, but they are not struck with our officers.
Even the dignified reserve of Royal Dukes and Generals of Division had to undergo the ordeal of this salutation from Pashas and other dignitaries.
Of late years, the Pashas of Cairo have employed a gentleman from Khorasan, whose travelling name is "Mirza Sanglakh" to decorate their Mosques with inscriptions.
The pashas write to me saying that piracy seems to be completely suppressed, and that it is two months since either of them received a complaint of a vessel being chased or missing.
The pashas have no experience in war, while the French have the best generals in Europe.
The pashas both of Smyrna and Rhodes have written to me expressing their admiration at the work that you have accomplished, and indeed your report of the number of pirate vessels taken or destroyed speaks for itself.
Having got his will, he was now ready to give that same fortune to the good of Egypt--but not to beys and pashas and eunuchs (and that he should have escaped Mizraim was the marvel beyond all others!
They say that you and Prince Kaid are doing the thing yourselves, and that the pashas and judges and all the high-mogul sharks of the Medjidie think that the end of the world has come.
There are the poor men and humble--the pashas and judges and the others of the Medjidie, as thee said, are not poor.
For an instant it blinded him, then he was conscious that, on the ground at his feet, lay one of the Three Pashaswho were to die at sunset.
With hardly any exceptions, the Pashas were consistent in oppression.
Only memory broods in the garden where the Pashasused to walk, and the courtyard where the Imperial envoy fell.
Village people stood around, but refused to give or sell us anything, and using defiant language to all the consuls and pashas in the world.
The pashas had hitherto been both civil and military officers; purchased their appointments at extravagant prices, and repaid themselves by extortions practised upon the unfortunate subjects over whom they ruled.
The appointment of civil governors removed this old abuse, and left the pashas vested only with military power.
The pashas gained almost unlimited power, founded on the ruins of civil liberty.
Two Pashas were tried, and found guilty of cowardice, and were promptly shot--pour encourager les autres.
It is now about one hundred and twenty years since the government of the mountain has been always entrusted by the Pashas of Acre and Tripoli to an individual of the family of Shehab [Arabic], to which the Emir Beshir belongs.
The immense property of Tshelebis family added to his personal qualities, rendered his influence and power so great that during twenty years he obliged several Pashas who would not yield to his counsels and designs to quit the town.
The Pashas of Damascus, and the Emir Beshirs, have for many years been in continual dispute about their rights over the villages of the Bekaa.
The Pashaliks all over the Turkish dominions are given for the term of one year only, and at the beginning of the Mohammedan year, the Pashas receive [p.
The Pashas of Damascus have several times endeavoured in vain to subdue them.
The castle of Boszra is a most important post to protect the harvests of the Haouran against the hungry Bedouins; but it is much neglected by the Pashas of Damascus, and this year the [p.
The Khan is in a bad state; Pashas no longer think of repairing public edifices.
I obtained the following information respecting the modern history of the Pashas of Tripoli.
There are eight or nine hundred houses, which daily increase, by fugitives from the oppressions of the Pashas of Damascus and of the neighbouring petty tyrants.
But he was then able to state, that the Porte, "out of consideration for his repeated representations," had officially transmitted the firman to all Pashas where a Protestant society was known to exist.
The rising rapidly extended, for fanaticism in such regions soon takes fire, and the Egyptian pashas had been sore oppressors, even judged by the rude standards of oriental states.
The rule of the Mahdi was itself a tyranny, and tribe fought with tribe, but that was deemed an easier yoke than the sway of the pashas from Cairo.
They were like the Arab sheikhs at Berber, who, when they found that the Egyptian pashas were going to evacuate, went over to the Mahdi.
Now and then they encountered the harems of the greatest dignitaries, such as pashas and beglerbegs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pashas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
