rayahs

There seemed, indeed, scant reason for any passenger-train at all, for, besides our own party, there were only two or three Zaptiehs, truculent-looking fellows, a couple of English merchants and some rayahs.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

That more products of the soil are not sent in this way is rather the fault of the wretched government than of the rayahs or agricultural laborers.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

The railway porters and some rayahs were lying on the platform in the enjoyment of their midday slumbers, their heads and faces carefully wrapped up in their capotes, while their bare, bronzed shanks and huge feet, in shapeless red shoes, projected in what seemed absurd disproportion to the rest of their bodies.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

The Moslem peasantry would not touch them, and the Christian rayahs are afraid to do so.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Those agents systematically provoked hostility to Turkey, which was natural and consistent with the good of the people, for the Turkish abuses are incurable and always merit rebellion, but also against Austria, which was unjust and aggravated the trouble of the rayahs needlessly.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

I had seen enough of the horrors of suppression of Christian discontent by the Mussulmans of Crete, but the brutality of the Slavonic Islam in time of peace was other and bitterer than the Cretan, and the miserable remnant of escaped rayahs of Herzegovina was the very ragged fringe of humanity.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

Powers, far from having produced peace, roused the fanatical passions of the Mohammedans both against the Christian rayahs and against the foreigner to whom they had appealed.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

Mr. Meriam became convinced that it would have been safer for him and his family to have gone alone; and such was the fact, for the robbers did not know of his presence, and designed only to plunder the rayahs.

History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Rufus Anderson 1838

In 1854, his lordship obtained the concession from the Turkish government, that Christian evidence, in matters of criminal jurisdiction, should stand on the same footing everywhere in Turkey as the testimony of Mohammedans; thus removing a great wrong, under which the rayahs of the empire had labored for centuries.

History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Rufus Anderson 1838

Time flew on, and no one of the young rayahs appeared inclined to begin.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820