wazeer

Yet, 'tis something to have a great wazeer for relative even though, for the time being, loss of favour has given him leisure for pious observances.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

But they took little land, they sent few to Court, the country was ours until the wazeer had fulfilled his destiny and died.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

A crowd of penniless idlers, to whom admittance is denied, clamours outside the heavy door, while the city urchins fight for the privilege of holding the mules of wealthy Moors, who are arriving in large numbers in response to the report that the household of a great wazeer, recently disgraced, will be offered for sale.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

But so soon as the kaid has amassed sufficient wealth, the governor of his province, or one of the high wazeers in the Sultan's capital, will despoil him and sell his place to the highest bidder, and in the fulness of time the Sultan will send for that wazeer or governor, and treat him in similar fashion.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

Against all the wise men of the Nazarenes who dwell in Tanjah the wazeer fought in the name of the Exalted of God, [33] so that no one of them could settle on this land to take it for himself and break into the bowels of the earth.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

But the insulting words were scarcely uttered than Sakr-el-Bahr's great hand had taken the wazeer by the nape of his fat neck, a growl of anger running through the assembly to approve him.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

Asad's kindling eyes flashed a glance at his wazeer.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

Asad-ed-Din on a milk-white mule rode forward, escorted by Tsamanni his wazeer and a cloud of black-robed janissaries with flashing scimitars.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

For even as at that moment Ayoub -- the sleek and portly eunuch, who was her wazeer and chamberlain -- loomed in the inner doorway, salaaming, he vanished again upon the instant, dismissed by a peremptory wave of the Basha's hand.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

He was attended by his wazeer Tsamanni, Biskaine, and some other of his captains.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912