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...eceived once by a woman, Shahryar, the sultan, marries a maid every evening and has her killed on the very next day. Scheherazade convinces the grand vizier, her father, to give him her hand to attempt to put an end to this nightmare. Every night, she will tell him a different tale. Day by day, her life will be saved by Shahryar's curiosity, as he is intrigued by what he h...

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...ha? Shiraz! that nest of them! that reptile’s nest!’ Then he turned to his Vizier beside him, and said, ‘What shall be done with this fellow?’ So the ... ...und a raised seat, where sat one that was their lord, and it was the Chief Vizier of the King. Then the old woman turned round sharply to Shibli Bagar... ...ayed foolishly with his fingers, knowing not what to do. So when the Chief Vizier saw him he cried out, ‘Who art thou, and what wantest thou?’ Now, th... ...t wantest thou?’ Now, the back of Shibli Bagarag tingled when he heard the Vizier’s voice, and he said, ‘I am, O man of exalted con- dition, he whom m... ...like- wise, proud of my art, prepared to exercise it.’ Then said the Chief Vizier, ‘This even to our faces! Won- derful is the audacity of impudence! ... ...e, and there is no help but that thou be made an example of.’ So the Chief Vizier uttered command, and Shibli Bagarag was ware of the power of five sl... ...ere the mouth of satisfaction; and the people assembled extolled the Chief Vizier, saying, ‘Well and valiantly done, O stay of the State! and such-lik... ... the accursed race of barbers.’ Now, when they had passed before the Chief Vizier and departed, lo! he fell to laughing violently, so that his hair wa... ...rs of a bubbling spring, for it had the aspect of merriness; and the Chief Vizier exclaimed, ‘O Shibli Bagarag, have I not made fair show?’ And Shibli...

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... sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the common way wit... ...er sleeps!” “Ah, you Ghorumsaug (you thief of the world),” said the Prince Vizier, Saadut Alee Beg Bimbukchee—”it’s joking you are;”—and there was a u... ...nt hissing over my head, and flattening into a jelly the nose of the Grand Vizier. “Y ock muzzee! my nose is off,” said the old man, mildly. “Will you... .... “It is well that the Bobbachy has returned,” snuffled out the poor Grand Vizier, after I had explained to the Council the 45 Thackeray extraordinar... ...ing to my mind, and thanked my stars that I was delivered of this danger. “Vizier,” said Holkar, who enjoyed Loll’s roars amazingly, “I owe you a repa... ... nose?” The phrase was by all voices pronounced to be very poeti- cal. The Vizier retired, crowned with his new honours, to bed. Holkar was in high go... ...e, proclaimed him at once to be—Saadut Alee Beg Bimbukchee, Holkar’s Prime Vizier; whose nose, as the reader may recollect, his Highness had flattened... ... avoided?” “Listen. Gahagan loves the moon-face called Belinda.” “He does, Vizier, to distraction.” “Of what rank is he in the Koompani’s army?” “A ca... ... of the writing). I took it calmly, and said, “This is a tempting offer. O Vizier, how long wilt thou give me to consider of it?” After a long parley,...

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...Country: one of whom tells the Story of all Three. This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of T oghrul Beg ... ... claimed a share in his good fortune, according to the school-day vow. The Vizier was generous and kept his word. Hasan demanded a place in the govern... ... Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the Sultan granted at the Vizier’s request; but discontented with a gradual rise, he plunged into the... ...advocating Char 6 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam “Omar Khayyam also came to the Vizier to claim his share; but not to ask for title or office. ‘The greate... ...apur. “At Naishapur thus lived and died Omar Khayyam, ‘bus- ied,’ adds the Vizier, ‘in winning knowledge of every kind, and especially in Astronomy, w...

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...rost, giving way to her merriment. ‘The Arabian Nights themselves, the two viziers laying their heads together, and sending home orders to us to make ... ...love of mis- chief, whispered to Mrs. Ponsonby that she only hoped the two viziers would not quarrel about the three thousand se- quins, three landed ... ... end of it.’ She was just wise enough to keep back the wishes of the other vizier, but she had said enough to set Louis quite at his ease, and put him...

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... fallen into the second male place in the State, and was set apart for Grand Vizier. He afterwards resisted this disposal of events, but had his hair ... ...n blush, attended by a fearful perspiration, suffused my features. The Grand Vizier became more dead than alive, and the whole Seraglio red dened as ... ...ed for limiting the benefit of them to that dog, and son of a dog, the Grand Vizier—who had no rights, and was not in question. At length, the diffi ... ..., and of the baker, and my despondency redoubled. The Seraglio and malicious Vizier, divining the cause of their Lord’s unhappi ness, did their utmos... ...d before me. One day, we were out walking, two and two—on which occasion the Vizier had his usual instructions to take note of the boy at the turn pik... ...shortest way to the Pyramids), Miss Griffin screamed after me, the faithless Vizier ran after me, “The Haunted House” Charles Dickens 41 and the bo...

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...e subject, but from strangers — the description of the last moments of the vizier of Yanina; he had read different accounts of his death, but the stor... ... ‘Long live the emperor!’ said the figure. ‘He grants a full pardon to the Vizier Ali, and not only gives him his life, but restores to him his fortun... ... the balls penetrated the boards all round us. Oh, how noble did the grand vizier my father look at that moment, in the midst of the flying bullets, h... ...given up to the Turks by a French officer named Fernand, in whom the grand vizier, Ali Tepelini, had reposed the greatest confidence.” “Well,” said Mo... ...mple, that your father had no hand whatever in the defeat and death of the vizier; or if by chance he had, indeed, the misfortune to” — “I have told y... ... wealthy enough to purchase them.” “Then he will sell them to some Eastern vizier, who will empty his coffers to purchase them, and refill them by app... ...a most eloquent and skilful manner. He produced documents proving that the Vizier of Yanina had up to the last moment honored him with his entire conf... ...ixing his eyes on M. de Morcerf, ‘Count,’ said he, ‘you have said that the Vizier of Yanina confided his wife and daughter to your care?’ — ‘Yes, sir,... ...’ — ‘Alas, no, monsieur,’ replied the count; ‘all those who surrounded the vizier, or who knew me at his court, are either dead or gone away, I know n...

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...Now twangs a halting chord, now tweaks a boy. Thorough in all, my resolute vizier Plays both the despot and the volunteer, Exacts with fines obedience...

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...oud cries, will scare them. Tarts are made, according to the recipe of the Vizier’s son of Bussorah, who turned pastrycook after he was set down in hi...

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...t her arms above her head and thought for a moment—’the Sahib shall be our Vizier—thine and mine, Wali Dad—because he has said that thou shouldst leav... ...I went to bed and dreamed that Wali Dad had sacked the City and I was made Vizier, with Lalun’s silver huqa for mark of office. All day the Mohurrum d... ...ort as I draw it on the sand—’ But I was thinking how I had become Lalun’s Vizier after all. To return to the Electronic Classics Series site go to ht...

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... and danced about the room, declaring her worthy to be her own “primest of viziers.” “And,” said Beatrice, “what an exquisite interlude it will make t...

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...fter this occurrence, that we heard of the defeat of the Czar by the Grand Vizier upon the Pruth. The Czar, annoyed by the protection the Porte had ac... ... in a convent,— proposed that he should try by bribery to induce the Grand Vizier to allow him and the wreck of his forces to retreat The Czar approve... ...he proposition, without hoping for suc- cess from it. He sent to the Grand Vizier and ordered him to be spoken to in secret. The Vizier was dazzled by... ... to pay the T urks and their Prince all the expenses of the war. The Grand Vizier found such an opposition in the Divan to this treaty, and such boldn... ...he latter was in no condition to make even the least resistance. The Grand Vizier had only to will it, in order to execute it on the spot. In addition... ...stripped of his riches, they would have been for the Sultan, and the Grand Vizier pre- ferred having them for himself. He braved it then with au- thor... ... the principal T urkish chiefs, hurried to Constantinople, where the Grand Vizier was strangled upon arriving. The Czar never forgot this service of h...

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...ats would scarce own. I coft him dog cheap at T unis, when his master, the Vizier, had had his tongue cut out—for but know- ing o’ some deed that suld...

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...and of crews As renegadoes; while in hapless group, Hoping no very old vizier might choose, The females stood, as one by one they pick’d ‘em, ... ...aid his prayers With more than ‘Oriental scrupulosity;’ He left to his vizier all state affairs, And show’d but little royal curiosity: I ...

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...all figure, as well as the noble propriety of his movements, attracted especially the regards of the ladies. Who the Knight was? Nobody could guess, f... ... still refused to allow his fea- tures to be seen, till at last the Queen driven by curiosity, and vexed at the obstinate refusal; commanded him to op...

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...onsiders as best represented to modern ideas by the T urkish post of grand vizier. Needing a protector at this moment, he naturally fixed his eyes upo...

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...ed with lead, and gilt, after the Moorish manner, plain enough. ”The Grand Vizier sits in this place, and the ambassadors used to wait here, and be co...

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...lley Through thee, for emperors, kings, and priests and lords, Who rule by viziers, sceptres, bank-notes, words, The earth pours forth its plenteous f...

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.... Becky was always good to him, always amused, never angry. His lordship’s vizier and chief confidential servant (with a seat in parliament and at the...

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...n. Those about him told him little. Daily came Ostrog, the Boss, his Grand Vizier, his mayor of the palace, to report in vague terms the steady establ...

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...g, I used to think if ever I was a rich sultan, I would make Adam my grand-vizier. And I believe now he would bear the exaltation as well as any poor ... ...him well settled in this parish; he would be ready then to act as my grand-vizier when I wanted one. We could plan no end of repairs and im- provement...

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...great catastrophe of 1683. In that year, at the instigation of the haughty vizier, Kara Mustafa, the T urks had undertaken the siege of Vienna; and gr... ...osion of the long-hoarded insurrection- ary fury. Ali Pacha, the far-famed vizier of Yannina, had long been hated profoundly by the Sultan, who in the...

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...ey are republicans.” The terrible Mademoiselle Cochet, her maid and female vizier, had tried to enlighten her mistress when she saw the ascendency Gau...

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...m, opening from the passage outside Mr Dombey’ s door. Mr Carker, as Grand Vizier, inhabited the room that was nearest to the Sultan. Mr Morfin, as an...

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... Seigneur, your servant, dear princess, was an Ottoman Turk, and his Grand Vizier advised him to send flowers in his place weekly.’ ‘I had them, and w...

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...avinses. There had been times when, if he had been a sultan, and his grand vizier had said one morning, “What does the Commander of the Faithful requi...

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.... Becky was always good to him, always amused, never angry. His lordship’s vizier and chief confidential servant (with a seat in parliament and at the...

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...m, opening from the passage outside Mr Dombey’ s door. Mr Carker, as Grand Vizier, inhabited the room that was nearest to the Sultan. Mr Morfin, as an...

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...avinses. There had been times when, if he had been a sultan, and his grand vizier had said one morning, “What does the Commander of the Faithful requi...

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...and honourable men, bears a nearer resemblance to the justice of that good Vizier in the Thousand-and-one Nights, who issues orders for the destructio...

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... sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the common way wit... ...er sleeps!” “Ah, you Ghorumsaug (you thief of the world),” said the Prince Vizier, Saadut Alee Beg Bimbukchee—”it’s joking you are;”—and there was a u... ...nt hissing over my head, and flattening into a jelly the nose of the Grand Vizier. “Y ock muzzee! my nose is off;” said the old man, mildly. Will you ... ...at the Bobbachy has returned,” snuffled out the 173 Burlesques poor Grand Vizier, after I had explained to the Council the extraordinary means of def... ...ing to my mind, and thanked my stars that I was delivered of this danger. “Vizier,” said Holkar, who enjoyed Loll’s roars amazingly, “I owe you a repa... ... nose?” The phrase was by all voices pronounced to be very poeti- cal. The Vizier retired, crowned with his new honors, to bed. Holkar was in high goo... ...e, proclaimed him at once to be—Saadut Alee Beg Bimbukchee, Holkar’s prime vizier; whose nose, as the reader may recollect, his Highness had flattened... ... avoided?” “Listen. Gahagan loves the moon-face called Belinda.” “He does, Vizier, to distraction.” “Of what rank is he in the Koompani’s army?” “A ca... ... of the writing). I took it calmly, and said, “This is a tempting offer. O Vizier, how long wilt thou give me to consider of it?” After a long parley,...

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...rary world has hitherto been strangely in error respecting the fate of the vizier’s daughter, Scheherazade, as that fate is depicted in the “Arabian N... ...errupted one afternoon (no doubt at his prayers) by a visit from his grand vizier, to whose daughter, it appears, there had occurred an idea. Her name... ...h makes the sacrifice more meritorious), she deputes her father, the grand vizier, to make an offer to the king of her hand. This hand the king eagerl... ...ents, and had put off the matter from day to day, only through fear of the vizier), — but, in accepting it now, he gives all parties very distinctly t... ...ng it now, he gives all parties very distinctly to understand, that, grand vizier or no grand vizier, he has not the slightest design of giving up one...

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...lains of H.M. the emperor and king. Already the prefects were a species of vizier. The myrmidons of the great man scoffed at Diard’s pretensions to a ...

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...radual growth in the time of Muhammad himself. 11 Lit. parables. 12 Lit. vizier. 13 It is uncertain whether Rass is the name of a city in Y emama; ... ... our finding him whom we seek, namely, El-Khidr, or El-Khadir, the reputed vizier of Dhoulkarnain, and said to have drunk of the foun- tain of life, b... ...an, the favourite of Ahasuerus and the enemy of the Jews, is thus made the vizier of Pharaoh. The Rabbins make this vizier to have been Korah, Jethro,...

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...r horse. His eldest brother is tutor to his Highness’s children, and grand vizier, and magistrate, and on his Highness’s household staff, and seems to...

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...French minister, Villesle, Mr. Golyadkin immediately thought of the T urkish Vizier, Martsimiris, as well as of the beautiful Mergravine Luise, whose ...

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...t contracts or no, that thing is for him just like the fly that some Grand Vizier or other had on his nose. If you put leeches at once on the epigastr...

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...rcepted by the English cruisers; but immediately after the battle with the Vizier in July 1799, an English admiral first informed the French army of E...

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... thrust from off the sacred throne By clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand-vizier Makes humble compact, plays the supple part Of envoy and deft-tongue...

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... thrust from off the sacred throne By clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand vizier Makes humble compact, plays the supple part Of envoy and deft tongue...