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Example sentences for "viziers"

Lexicographically close words:
vixit; vizard; vizards; vizcacha; vizierate; vizir; vizirs; vizor; vizored; vizors
  1. As soon as he had made an end of his tale, the Vizier sent for the amirs and viziers and grandees and acquainted them with the matter; whereat they rejoiced greatly and wondered at the happy chance.

  2. So they addressed themselves to do his bidding, and he bade the wives of the amirs and viziers and grandees depart not until the time of the wedding banquet and of the unveiling of the bride.

  3. Then came the amirs and viziers and grandees and wished the King joy of his son and daughter, wherefore he thanked them and bestowed dresses of honour and favours and largesse on them and on all who were present, gentle and simple.

  4. Set out when you think fit; your viziers and I will take care of the government during your absence.

  5. Prince Zeyn swore he would for the future follow his mother's advice, and be directed by the wise viziers she had made choice of to assist him in supporting the weight of the government.

  6. Did not you yourselves raise the Viziers to power?

  7. The pacific Viziers promised him a house, a garden, beautiful horses, and still more beautiful slaves.

  8. The viziers kissed the holy flag and took the oath to defend it to the last drop of their blood.

  9. At this the Viziers leaped to their feet, and it was evident from their agitated cries that they expected the Sultan to order the presumptuous infidel to be cut down there and then.

  10. It was not so much the Sultans and Viziers who commanded them as they who commanded the Sultans and Viziers.

  11. In the Orient the favourite stories are those narrating sudden and amazing shifts of fortune--beggars become viziers or viziers become beggars, and all in a single night.

  12. The Viziers answered that Hojia's opinion was just.

  13. Suleiman seemed to open the way to influences which would be destructive to the Turkish power; and one of the greatest of the Viziers a century later said that all his successors were fools or tyrants.

  14. In 1656 she gave him the best of teachers and viziers in Kuprili Mohammed.

  15. At the left was the room where Viziers were beheaded.

  16. With him began the age of the great Viziers who for a time revived the glory of the Turks.

  17. In niches on each side of the Bab-i-Humayun were often placed the heads of viziers whom the Sultans had sacrificed to their own jealousy or to the demands of the Janissaries.

  18. The brothers and relations of El Hakkam, the viziers and their chief, the Hadjeb, the white and black eunuchs, the archers and cuirassiers of the guard, all swore obedience to the monarch.

  19. It is recorded of him, that his viziers urged him to punish with death one of his relations who had taken arms against him, and caused himself to be proclaimed caliph.

  20. So the king bade fetch the prisoner and they brought him; whereupon the viziers turned to him and said to him, "O vile of origin, doth any hope of life remain with thee and lookest thou still for deliverance after this day?

  21. Then he bade fetch the youth; so they brought him before him and the viziers said, "O base of origin, out on thee!

  22. Then he turned to the viziers and said to them, "Out on ye!

  23. When the morning morrowed and the king sat on the throne of his kingship, he summoned the chief of his viziers and said to him, "What deemest thou of this that yonder robber-youth hath done?

  24. The viziers said: 'This fellow is so brave, and such a clever thief, that we cannot entrap him.

  25. She immediately called her viziers together, and they wrote out the usual contract.

  26. He asked one of his viziers to go and try to find out about it.

  27. And the viziers said: 'Let the hind go, and it will fall on its knees in front of the house of the thief.

  28. His viziers sought the maiden, but they could find no one whom the slipper would fit.

  29. The king asked that his viziers might be restored to life, and they all went away with rich presents.

  30. Being acquainted with the resolutions of the Viziers and Emirs, I proclaimed aloud that my royal master Misnar was alive, and that he had destroyed the enchantress Ulin, who had espoused the cause of Ahubal.

  31. All the other Viziers supported this insidious harangue.

  32. Scarcely were they gone out, when the oldest of the Viziers came to pay his court to the King.

  33. After long experience of his abilities and activity, he went so far as to trust him with the superintendence of his finances, and deprived his Viziers of an administration in which he suspected them.

  34. Aladin became as dear to his father as if he had known himself to be so in reality, and the influence of the Viziers was lost in that of the young minister.

  35. He determined that the most intelligent of his Viziers should go into Persia, at the head of twelve thousand men.

  36. As soon as he appeared the ten Viziers lifted up their voices against him.

  37. Jemlikha durst not speak too plainly, he still fearing lest this King, who was unknown to him, should be one of the viziers of Dakianos, who might order him to be conveyed to that Prince, who perhaps was absent.

  38. The whole conspiracy formed against Aladin awoke with still greater force, and it was determined that the ten Viziers should go in a body to the King.

  39. He ceased then to be visible to the eyes of his warriors, and disappeared with his Viziers and all the Doctors of the Law, designing by that means to convince them fully, and leave no room for jealousy and suspicion.

  40. As soon as Aladin had been led back to his dungeon, one of the Viziers began: "Sire, your Majesty suffers yourself to be overcome by the magic of this young impostor's discourses.

  41. The ten Viziers were well pleased to hear this resolution.

  42. His palace had seven hundred porters; sixty viziers were occupied in his affairs.

  43. When the viziers saw this, they were jealous of him and envied him and cast about for a device against him whereby they might oust him from the king's favour, but found no opportunity.

  44. Book of Bekhtyar, by which name the prince, whose attempted ruin by the envious viziers is the central incident of the tale, is distinguished in that language.

  45. Then he bade set up other nine gibbets beside the first and said to his son, "Thou art guiltless, and yet these wicked viziers endeavoured for thy slaughter.

  46. None of the viziers attained to the rank and favour which he enjoyed with Er Reshid, who was wont to call him brother[FN#157] and used to carry him with him into his house.

  47. Then he sent for the viziers and said to them, 'O wicked viziers, ye thought that God was heedless of your deed, but your wickedness shall revert upon you.

  48. But when a year hence the time comes to speak with him again on this matter, then speak not to him privately any more, but before all the people, with the emirs and the viziers and the troops standing by.

  49. Vathek, meanwhile, saluted the moon with an idolatrous air, that neither pleased Morakanabad nor the doctors of the law, any more than the viziers and grandees of his court, who were all assembled to enjoy the last view of their sovereign.

  50. His courtiers and viziers exerted their efforts to soothe his extravagance, but finding every expedient ineffectual, they all united in one vociferation: “The Caliph is gone mad!

  51. I require the blood of fifty of the most beautiful sons of thy viziers and great men, or neither can my thirst nor thy curiosity be satisfied.

  52. His courtiers and viziers exerted their efforts to soothe his extravagance; but, finding every expedient ineffectual, they all united in one vociferation, "The caliph is gone mad!

  53. Take them from among the most beautiful sons of thy viziers and great men; or neither can my thirst nor thy curiosity be satisfied.

  54. Then send for thy son and broach to him the matter of marriage before the Viziers and grandees and officers of state and captains; for he will surely be daunted by their presence and will not dare to oppose thy will.

  55. His father seated himself at his head, mourning sore for him, and every Monday and Thursday he gave his Viziers and Amirs and grandees and officers and the rest of his subjects leave to come in to him in the pavilion.

  56. The King, accordingly, waited till a day of state, when the audience hall was filled with his Amirs and Viziers and grandees and officers of state and captains.

  57. Then came the amirs and viziers and chamberlains and officers, and the Divan assembled as of wont.

  58. Then he assembled his chamberlains and Amirs and Viziers and other officers of state and the Cadis of the city, and putting off the kingship, invested Budour therewith and clad her in the royal robes.

  59. One day, he complained to one of his Viziers of the excess of his love for his son, saying, 'O Vizier, of a truth I fear the shifts and accidents of fortune for my son Kemerezzeman and fain would I marry him in my lifetime.

  60. I dethroned my brother; my nephew dethroned me, my viziers were beheaded, and I am condemned to end my days in the old Seraglio.

  61. During this conversation, the news was spread that two Viziers and the Mufti had been strangled at Constantinople, and that several of their friends had been impaled.

  62. After which he took his place among the crowd of viziers and emirs below the throne.

  63. Knowest thou not that we are brothers and both by God's grace Viziers and equal in rank?

  64. When he entered, he looked at the viziers and amirs and chamberlains and deputies and grandees and captains, Turks and Medes and Arabs and Persians, and then at the Khalif.

  65. Next morning, the King repaired as usual to his council-chamber, and the amirs and viziers and chamberlains took their places round him.

  66. There was once a King's son who was passionately fond of the chase; and his father had charged one of his Viziers to attend him wherever he went.

  67. Next day, the amirs and viziers and chamberlains and all the great officers and notables of the kingdom came to the court, and the presence chamber was like a flower garden.

  68. On the morrow, he went out and sat down on his throne; and the grandees stood before him, whilst the amirs and viziers sat on his right hand and on his left.

  69. When somewhat recovered from his surprise, he inquired of his viziers how he should now act towards Abou Neeut; when they all unanimously cried out, "By all means give him your daughter.

  70. Accordingly, after a repose of some days, the two viziers departed in search of Ins al Wujjood, but without knowing where to bend their journey.

  71. His admiral, however, did not agree with this decision; to the Viziers he raged and stormed.

  72. The Viziers trembled, as men did when Barbarossa stormed and turned upon them those terrible eyes which knew neither fear nor pity.

  73. And with these words he waved his hand defiantly in the direction of the viziers and the magnates.

  74. The previous night he did not spend in the harem, but shut himself up with his viziers and counsellors in that secret chamber of the Divan, which is roofed over with a golden cupola.

  75. Moreover the Viziers and Amirs and officers of state and grandees of the realm invoked blessings on him and the Sultan gave him joy [502] and prayed God prosper him.

  76. There he sat down and seated Alaeddin on his right hand; whereupon the viziers and chiefs of the state and the grandees of the realm sat also, each in his several room, whilst the drums beat and they held high festival in the palace.

  77. Accordingly, they undid it all and sent to the Sultan that which was his and to the Viziers [and others] that which was theirs.

  78. They were accustomed to hear about strangled sultans and viziers and pashas.

  79. The Bulgarian spirit has been since 1878 under the rule of the German kings, as slavishly subordinate as it was for five hundred years under the rule of the Turkish viziers and pashas.

  80. The sultan looked at me for a short time, and then consulted with the viziers and others, who stood by the throne with their arms folded.


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