Long have I plotted against this hour, to lure the king a-voyaging in this his princely yacht, his faithful vizier at his side, that the Change might come to him far from his court.
Yet I spoke forth, with a great show of anger, that I, Ammaerln, vizier and companion to the Rthr, did but walk and speak in confidence with my liege lord.
He enclosed the copy of the letter he had written to the Grand Vizier on this subject.
Sheil felt, however, that on this occasion there was sympathy for the executed, because the story of a conspiracy to murder the Grand Vizier was not generally believed.
And now the Grand Vizier had the additional anxiety of watching the rapid deterioration of Muḥammad [Sh]áh's health.
His own comment to the Grand Vizier had been that executing the Bábís was the surest way of propagating their doctrines.
It was apparently Ḥusayn [Kh]án's intention to carry out the orders of the Grand Vizier that night.
The Grand Vizier was particularly irked and infuriated that the Bábís could defeat and put to flight his force, although, for the most part, they were untrained in the arts of war.
Many attempts they made, but though my mother was clever and Ibrahim Mahmud and his father the Vizier were unscrupulous, my brother was in the protection of the Prophet.
Sir," said she, "I am your slave; and the late vizier your father gave ten thousand pieces of gold for me.
The grand vizier had but just done speaking when the slave came in, and cast himself at the feet of the sovereign.
If Noor ad Deen is no longer alive, but put to death by them, order the vizier Saouy to be impaled; but if he is living, bring him to me with the king and the vizier.
The grand vizierthen related to him the story of prince Kummir al Zummaun.
Having said thus, he left the prince to converse at full liberty with the stranger, whilst he went and rejoiced with the grand vizier on this happy incident.
It was the vizier Jaaffier, with his train, who came in person from Bagdad by the caliph's order.
The grandvizier obeyed; and coming into the prince's chamber, found him sitting on his bed with a book in his hand, which he was reading.
No tidings however could be heard of them; and the vizier Saouy had only the comfort of seeing the king espouse his quarrel.
This conduct of Noor ad Deen put the vizier Saouy into a violent passion.
Marzavan, who had a ready wit, seized that opportunity, and made his compliment in extempore verse; but in such a disguised manner, that neither the king nor the grand vizier under stood his meaning.
The Vizier tells us, that when he found Omar was really sincere in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted him a yearly pension of 1200 mithkals of gold from the treasury of Naishapur.
Omar Khayyam also came to the Vizier to claim his share; but not to ask for title or office.
The uncle died, and the usurpingvizier made himself master of this kingdom also.
So the daughter of Schems'edeen' Mohammed, vizier of Egypt, was called.
The enchanters, delighted with their prize, slept therein, but at night the vizier led the sultan to a cave, and asked him to cut a rope.
Ahu'bal had a magnificent tent built, and Horam the vizier had one built for the sultan still more magnificent.
While on a visit to his uncle his father died, and the vizier usurped the throne.
What my Vizier has told you, he invented to appease your anger.
So the Vizier went out and fetched him, and Camaralzaman came and bowed himself before the King.
But the Vizier only shook his head sorrowfully, waiting for the truth to reveal itself.
The Vizier answered, 'It is the King's son, who is sorely afflicted for the loss of a fair damsel that came to him but once and is gone again, none knows where.
So the Vizier ran, and opening the gates of the court leaned down, and caught Marzavan by the hair and drew him up to dry land.
His Vizier answered, 'When human means fail, it is then that we must rely on Heaven, for often these evils are sent to remind us of our dependence on Him who alone holds power.
So the Vizier hastened, treading upon his skirts as he went forth in fear of the King's anger, and coming to the tower found the Prince not mad at all, but seated upon the couch reciting verses from the Koran with the utmost composure.
His Vizier said, 'The Prince is still full young, but nothing forbids that he should marry if, by the will of Allah, we can find one worthy of him.
When the King heard these words his sorrow for his son and his wrath against the Vizier knew no bounds.
And the Vizier sighed heavily, for at this time life was hard to him and belief difficult.
The Vizier answered, 'O King, thy son hath presumed on thy forbearance, knowing well thy tenderness, and when thou hast spoken with him it hath been privately and as a father.
But to his Grand Vizier Shahzaman said, 'Now twice, O Vizier, have I come to thee for advice, and what profit has it been?
But after a while his Viziercame to him and said, 'O King of the Age, how long shall thy people seek for thee, and not find thee?
Brown was attending the Sultan, the Vizier managed to get hold of his cocked hat, and placing it upon his head, strutted about in the royal gardens.
The Book of Esther turns upon the fortunes of two men, the vizier Haman and the despised Jew Mordecai, at the court of a Persian king.
Two eminent members of this family were Khaled-ben-Barmek, tutor of Haroun al Rashid, and his son Yahya, grand vizier of Haroun.
After practising as a physician he quitted Bokhara at the age of twenty-two, and for a number of years led a wandering life, settling at last at Hamadan, subsequently as vizier of the Emir.
He had his head cut off, and, would you believe it, he sent for Ibrahim to come here to be Grand Vizier in his place.
You know, also, that I, who was the king, incurred the penalty of wandering till relieved; and you are also aware that him who was the Vizier was sentenced to a singular destiny under the name of Dhoula Bel.
Keith, on the part of Russia, and the grand vizier on that of the Turks.
When all was concluded, they rose to separate: the marshal made his bow, with his hat in his hand, and the vizier his salam, with his turban on his head.
Alp Arslan by the vizier Nizam ul-Mulk, who founded an Ash'arite college (the Nizamiyya).
The limited vizier had no initiative; he carried out the commands of the caliph.
Technically a viziercould be either limited or unlimited.
But Abu 'l-Abbas was fortunate in early securing as his vizier the grandfather of the house of the Barmecides (q.
It is plain that the vizier became as important as the caliph.
Naturally the formal distinction is a later theorizing of history; for a weak ruler his vizier became absolute, for a strong ruler his vizier remained subordinate.
In the modern Turkish empire the grand vizier (called generally sadr A'zam) is the sultan's representative in secular matters, and nominally stands between the sovereign and all the other officials.
Under the Mamelukes the vizier fell to be merely the court purveyor.
The reforming efforts of the grand vizier Bairakdar, to whom he had owed his life and his accession, broke on the opposition of the janissaries; and Mahmud had to wait for more favourable times.
It was given verbally, but with some additional authority derived from the presence of the Grand Vizier and the President of the Council.
In conformity with your orders I saw the Grand Vizier and communicated to him, word for word, the message contained in your confidential instruction of yesterday respecting the young Armenian who has just been executed.
The Grand Vizier concluded by saying, "Present my compliments to the Ambassador, and tell him that I appreciate his humane and well-intentioned sentiments, but that what has occurred was a misfortune for which there was no remedy whatever.
He told me that he will lay Lord Aberdeen's instructions before the Grand Vizier and the Sultan.
Under these impressions I trust that your Lordship will not think I have exceeded the bounds of prudence in stating confidentially, though without reserve, to the Grand Vizier the impressions made upon my mind by the recent execution.
The real king in the body of the ape saw his chance, and with great presence of mind darted back into his own body, which the vizier had rashly vacated.
Next day the Grand Vizier gave an account of the plan which he had devised for discovering what trust was to be placed in the history and complaints of Halechalbe.
The next morning Hobaddan appeared in front of his troops, with their heads dejected and their arms inverted toward the ground; and in this manner they came forward to the Vizier Horam's army.
This noble confession of the Vizier pleased the whole army, and they waited with the utmost impatience to hear his pardon pronounced.
If thy tale is true, his blood rests on his own head, who was the aggressor; but the story is so singular, that I shall detain thee till my Vizier and a party of soldiers be sent to search the enclosure you have mentioned.
The Vizier Horam received the Sultan's commission with reverence, and said, "Let not my Sultan be angry at his slave.
The Vizier Horam, having finished his relation, bowed himself before the Sultan, and said, "Shall thy slave give orders that an ambassador be sent to the Sultan of Cassimir to inquire after the fate of the Princess Hemjunah?
Sire," replied the knight, "your Grand Vizier Asphand has always been held in the highest estimation, and has had the honour to enjoy the confidence of your Majesty.
But be gay and cheerful, for know that the Vizier Mussapulta esteems you beyond any of his wives.
This Sovereign, too much addicted to the pleasures of the table, was giving himself up one day to the immoderate enjoyment of a sumptuous feast, when his Vizier came to inform him that the enemy was coming to besiege his capital.
At this recital the Vizier concealed his secret joy.
The young son of the Vizier joined the envoy; they went together to the King's palace, and prostrated themselves before him.
However, the Grand Vizier brought me many messages of welcome, and arranged that I should be permitted to see and salute his Serene Highness on the Esplanade as he rode by on horseback to the mosque.
So, the second day after arrival, the Grand Vizier drove me in a barouche to the Esplanade, where we took station about midway of its length an hour or so before the Sultan was to appear.
The Vizier called out to the Prince that he had conquered, and bade him leave the arena.
Without further interruption, the Prince rode straight home, and announced to the old Vizier his intention to fight the lion.
With large promises of aid, in money and in men, Vizier Ali and Tippoo Sultan had encouraged him to move down upon Hindostan at the head of an army of true believers.
They are now our devoted servants, and the Vizier has promised to write off instantly to his master at Khelat, advising him to give us his entire and unqualified friendship and support.
His removal, moreover, from the capital cannot but facilitate for the Grand Vizier the exercise of his functions in freeing him from this kind of obstacle.
Communicate our greetings to our Grand Vizier and show him this order.
But it is also the duty of the person who happens to be Grand Vizier to superintend the general march of affairs, and to take steps to prevent all maladministration.
Now Mâhum Anâga, her son and her adherents, hated the grand vizier with a deadly hatred because they perceived that they were being deprived of their former influence in matters of state.
Go, bring him here at once, and with him the Vizier and the chief scribe of the Council.
The Vizier heard, and, creeping on his hands and knees to the window-place, raised himself and peeped through the shutter.
This present she contrived to send to the vizierat the same time with the proposals of peace made by the emperor.
The vizierwas extremely pleased with the present, and he at once agreed to the conditions of peace, and thus the Czar and all his army escaped the destruction which threatened them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vizier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
