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  • noun Plural form of kourbash.

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Examples

  • For the moment, however, he loved them both after his fashion; for Sadik lied to him, and squeezed the land dry, and flailed it with kourbashes for gold for his august master and himself; and Dicky told him the truth about everything -- which gave the Khedive knowledge of how he really stood all round.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • For the moment, however, he loved them both after his fashion; for Sadik lied to him, and squeezed the land dry, and flailed it with kourbashes for gold for his august master and himself; and Dicky told him the truth about everything -- which gave the Khedive knowledge of how he really stood all round.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • For the moment, however, he loved them both after his fashion; for Sadik lied to him, and squeezed the land dry, and flailed it with kourbashes for gold for his august master and himself; and Dicky told him the truth about everything -- which gave the Khedive knowledge of how he really stood all round.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The last time it was ordered there had been a riot among the starving, infested prisoners; earth had been thrown over the protruding bones of the dear lamented dead in the cemetery; the water of the ablution places in the mosque had been changed; the ragged policemen had new putties; the kourbashes of the tax-gatherers were hid in their yeleks; the egregious Pasha wore a greasy smile, and the submudir, as he conducted Fielding -- "whom God preserve and honour!"

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The last time it was ordered there had been a riot among the starving, infested prisoners; earth had been thrown over the protruding bones of the dear lamented dead in the cemetery; the water of the ablution places in the mosque had been changed; the ragged policemen had new putties; the kourbashes of the tax-gatherers were hid in their yeleks; the egregious Pasha wore a greasy smile, and the submudir, as he conducted Fielding -- "whom God preserve and honour!"

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The last time it was ordered there had been a riot among the starving, infested prisoners; earth had been thrown over the protruding bones of the dear lamented dead in the cemetery; the water of the ablution places in the mosque had been changed; the ragged policemen had new putties; the kourbashes of the tax-gatherers were hid in their yeleks; the egregious Pasha wore a greasy smile, and the submudir, as he conducted Fielding -- "whom God preserve and honour!"

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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