vakeel

Did he ever state it to the Rajah, or did he call his vakeel before the Council to answer the charge?

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

I therefore called my vakeel, and threatened him with the gravest punishment on my return to Khartoum.

In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

It was my perfume, right enough; I bowed acknowledgement while she smiled and settled herself, and the vakeel began to drone out her petition in formal Persian.

Fiancée 2010

I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue.

Fiancée 2010

I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

It was my perfume, right enough; I bowed acknowledgement while she smiled and settled herself, and the vakeel began to drone out her petition in formal Persian.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

It was my perfume, right enough; I bowed acknowledgement while she smiled and settled herself, and the vakeel began to drone out her petition in formal Persian.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

In a few days Seringapatam would have been taken by storm, but Tippoo seeing his situation hopeless sent a _vakeel_ to sue for peace.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

I am to be taken for him, then it is plain that fate has made me his vakeel, his representative; and whatever I do so long as I remain in that character is lawful -- then his clothes are my clothes, his hundred tomauns are my hundred tomauns, and whatever I have written in his name is lawfully written.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier