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- noun historical The
Ottoman sultan .
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Examples
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And I would have gone to war with the Great Turk, and the Persian, and Mogul, for the seraglios; for not one of those eastern monarchs should have had a pretty woman to bless himself with till I had done with her.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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But Heidi was not afraid of them, and when the lively Little Bear gave rather too violent a thrust, she only said, "No, Little Bear, you are pushing like the Great Turk," and Little Bear immediately drew back his head and left off his rough attentions, while Little Swan lifted her head and put on an expression as much as to say, "No one shall ever accuse me of behaving like the Great Turk."
Heidi 2000
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_Osmond the Great Turk_, or _the Noble Servant_, Tragedies; all which shew him (though not a Master) yet a great Retainer to the Muses.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Great Turk himself, who subscribed a thousand pounds out of his bankrupt treasury, to feed the starving subjects of the richest nation in the world.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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The commission laid upon Huon by the implacable and doting Emperor is nothing less than that which afterwards was made a byword for all impossible enterprises -- "to take the Great Turk by the beard."
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Then the distinction was successively transferred to the neighbouring Watling, Great Turk, and Mariguana; but in
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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These productions seem afraid of their _ears_ in the neighbourhood of the _Great Turk_, who is the great tyrant here, and, together with the rice, monopolizes three-fourths of all the land devoted to the culture of grain; the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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And whatsoever prince shall possess it, that prince shall be lord of more gold, and of a more beautiful empire, and of more cities and people, than either the king of Spain or the Great Turk.
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I was carried to Constantinople, where the Great Turk, Selim, made my lord General of the Sea, by reason that he had so well performed his duty in the battle, having brought away, for a witness of his valour, the standard of the Order of Malta.
The Fourth Book. XII. Wherein the Captive Recounteth His Life, and Other Accidents 1909
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The Great Turk was very much grieved for this loss; and therefore, using the sagacity wherewithal all his race wise endued, he made peace with, the Venetians, which for it much more than he did himself.
The Fourth Book. XII. Wherein the Captive Recounteth His Life, and Other Accidents 1909
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