The satraps, like the modern pachas, continually rebelled against the central power, and Egypt in particular was almost always in a state of insurrection against its nominal sovereign.

Her taste did not run in the direction of white fox cloaks, named diamonds, and imperial jade plates; she did not use a solid gold toothbrush with emeralds set in the handle, like Ismail Pacha; bridge did not amuse her at all, nor could she derive pleasure from playing at Monte Carlo; she did not even keep an eighty-horse-power motor-car worth five thousand pounds.

A particular relation of the expedition of Solyman Pacha, from Suez to India, against the Portuguese; written by a Venetian officer in the Turkish service on that occasion.

In the first he justifies the blockade of Candia on the ground of its being necessary to protect the Morea from the Pacha of Egypt; in the second he rests it on the necessity of blockading the two extremities of Candia for the purpose of watching Constantinople.

That a dispossessed Pacha is in arms at Akiska.

The new Vizier is very inferior to old Hussein Pacha, whose caution would have avoided this catastrophe.

The Pacha of Egypt gives no assistance, and thinks the weakness of the Porte constitutes his strength.

He seems pleased with the secret dispatches relative to Persia and the Pacha of Bagdad.

So his soldiers turned him out, and made his brother Pacha.

Halil Pacha takes to Petersburg fine presents for the Emperor and Empress, and other presents he is to distribute 'selon son gré et en son nom' which are enough to bribe all the ladies in Europe.

"Payne's two successful pieces""Ali Pacha" and "The Soldier's Daughter.

his Cabinet Albion, Lamb and the Albums, Lamb on Album Verses "Ali Pacha," by Howard Payne Allen, Robert Allsop, Thomas.

Turkish, English, and French soldiers, Turks in turbans and fezes, Turkish women wrapped up to the eyes in white or blue clothes; hamals or porters staggered past under weights which seemed to the boys stupendous; pachas and other dignitaries riding on gayly-trapped little horses; carriages, with three or four veiled figures inside and black guards standing on the steps, carried the ladies of one harem to visit those of another.

They fought better at Zorndorf and Kunersdorf, against the great Frederic, than they did at Austerlitz and Friedland, against the greater Napoleon, or than we have seen them fight, at the Alma, and at Inkerman, and at Eupatoria, against Raglan, and St. Arnaud, and Omar Pacha.

BRIDE OF ABY´DOS (The), Zulei´ka (3 syl.), daughter of Giaffer (2 syl.), pacha of Abydos.

The intervention of the Sultan was asked; a corps of Turkish troops entered Tripoli, drove out both Pachas, and reannexed the Regency to the Porte.]

The young ladies called him handsome and romantic, but he looked at them like a many-tailed pacha who was in the habit of ordering his wives by the dozen.

SEE Le pacha.

Among his patients were pachas, princes, and premiers.

" The phrase pachas ek means "about fifty."

The phrase pachas ek, as I have stated, means simply "about fifty," i.e., it may be one year more or less.

The idiom "do mahine ek," about two months, similar to the phrase, "pachas ek baras," v. note 1, page 161.

Their people were Mohammedans, and were ruled over by persons called Deys or Beys, or Pachas.

More and more vessels were sent, until at last the Deys and Beys and Pachas thought it would be cheaper to behave themselves properly.

The Dartmouth had gone into the bay twice, bearing the terms proposed by the allied commanders to Ibrahim Pacha.