vizier

How To Use vizier In A Sentence

• It was grand enough, Davis thought, for a vizier, a judge, a high priest, at the very least. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
• Errahman, and Vizier and Sultan amuse themselves by undertaking plundering expeditions against insurrectionary tribes, whose sedition they first stimulate, and then quell, that is to say, by receiving from the unlucky rebels a handsome gratification. Travels in Morocco
• Yes; this was the news that suddenly spread confusion and dismay throughout Florence, the news which told how the Ottoman fleet, for some days past moored off the port of Leghorn, had vomited forth legions, and how the formidable force was approaching at a rapid rate, under the command of the grand vizier in person, the seraskier and sipehsalar of the armies of the sultan! Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
• _gadado_, or vizier, where apartments were provided for him and his servants. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
• Heschem, the real kalif, was a virtual prisoner in his harem, and was encouraged by his guardian and friends to devote himself entirely to a religious life, leaving all the cares of state to his mother Sobeyah and to the vizier. Women of the Romance Countries
• In the museum's set, instead of queens, there are viziers, and instead of bishops, there are elephants, which were called fils, according to "Masterpieces From the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," a book about the exhibition that is being published by the museum. NYT > Home Page
• The leading passion of the vizier was the love of receiving presents. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
• The establishment of a vizier is a fundamental law of despotism. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
• He would surely have been present, for example, at such great occasions as the marriage, in January 1085, of al-Mu'tamin's son Ahmad al-Musta'in to a daughter of Abu Bakr of Valencia, splendidly organized by the Jewish vizier Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasday, himself one of the luminaries of the court culture of Zaragoza. David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time
• We desire," say they in their letter to the resident, (written so late as March last,) "that you will inform us if any, and what means, have been taken for recovering the balance due from the Begum [Princess] at Fyzabad; and that, if necessary, you _recommend_ it to the vizier to enforce _the most effectual means_ for that purpose. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)