Throughout Algeria the sherifs are not allowed to levy contributions from the people openly, but it is said in private, they receive them all the same.
He is acknowledged by the Sherifs as sovereign, except in Mecca; and he appoints to all the principal offices of State, including the supreme office of the Grand Sherifate itself.
Even in the days of its greatest power it always showed its jealousy and distrust of Mecca, and was careful when any of the Grand Sherifs acquired what was considered dangerous influence, to supplant him by setting up a rival.
The family of the Sherifs has this vast advantage over any other possible competitor to the supreme title of Islam, that it is of the acknowledged blood of that tribe of Koreysh which Mohammed himself designated as his heirs.
He, in the plenitude of his financial power, is stated to have expended large sums of money in subsidising the Sherifs with a view to possible contingencies at Constantinople.
It formerly belonged to one of the principal lords of the city; but was then the property of a rich jewel-merchant, to whom I paid for it only two sherifs a month.
We continued together all night, and next morning at parting, instead of ten sherifs she gave me fifteen, which I was forced to accept.
She did not, however, leave me without forcing me to take ten sherifs more.
The crier had been ordered to offer me fifty sherifs by one of the richest jewellers in town who had only made that offer to sound me, and try if I was well acquainted with the value of the pearls.
Next morning I would have put ten sherifs into the lady's hands, but she drew back instantly.
He is willing to take fifty sherifs for a necklace that is worth two thousand which is a clear proof of his having stolen it.
The written genealogies of the Somal were, it is said, stolen by the Sherifs of Yemen, who feared to leave with the wild people documents that prove the nobility of their descent.
The Sherifs continued to rule with some interruptions until but a few generations ago, when the present family rose to power.
The inhabitants of Aleppo have been for several years past divided into two parties; the Sherifs (the real or pretended descendants of the Prophet), and the Janissaries.
After nearly two years fighting, during which time a considerable part of the town was laid in ruins, the Pasha with the Sherifs were on the point of succeeding, and compelling the Janissaries to surrender.
The Sherifs were driven out of the mosques, but defended themselves in the castle.
The Sherifs first showed their strength about forty years ago, during a tumult excited by their chiefs in consequence of a supposed insult received by Mr. Clarke, the then British Consul.
Aleppo was governed by them in a disorderly manner for several years without a Pasha, until the Bey of Alexandretta, being appointed to the Pashalik, surprised the town and ordered all the chief Sherifs to be strangled[.
This put an end to the war; Mohammed dismissed the greater part of his troops and retired: the Janissaries came to a compromise with the Sherifs in the castle, and have since that time been absolute masters of the city.
The sherifs could only protest their entire satisfaction at this convincing evidence; and it is at any rate certain that, whatever they thought of the Caliph's claim, they did not contest it.
The sherifs of the family of Ali were summoned to the camp, as hostages for the good behavior of the inhabitants.
Egypt was the home of many undoubted sherifsor descendants of Ali, and these, headed by a representative of the distinguished Tabataba family, came boldly to examine his credentials.
His family were sherifs or descendants of Mahomet, and his father, Mahi-ed-Din, was celebrated throughout North Africa for his piety and charity.
He says the best breed is called ‘Beit el Khamaïs,’ and belongs to the Sherifs of the Ahl Hsaidar, formerly kings of Yemen.
The Sherifs used to keep the Arabs in rebellion for fear they should join the Turks against them.
Before the power of the Sherifs was broken by the chief Sherif Serour, the former extorted from every caravan that came to Mekka considerable sums, besides the surra to which they were entitled.
These native Sherifs are the head men of the town, or at least were so before their pride was broken by the Turkish conquest.
As at Mekka, the Sherifs wear no green, but simple white muslin turbans, excepting those from the northern part of Turkey, who have recently settled here, and who continue to wear the badge of their noble extraction.
It is said to have formerly been a state prison of the sherifs of Mekka.
Wady Lymoun, is another fertile valley, called Wady Medyk, where some sherifs are settled, and where Sherif Ghaleb possessed landed property.
The military Sherifs keep mares, but the greater part of these were absent with the army.
The power of the Sherifs involved him in frequent wars with them; as he seldom succeeded, their influence remained undiminished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sherifs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
