"Effendi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... battle-shock against Kurd, Mongol, and Tartar. At eighteen my ambition was to slap the faces of three human monsters. I told everybody that I was making arrangements to do this, and I started for Brusa after my first monster—Fehim Effendi—but the Vali telegraphed to the Grand Vizier, and the Grand Vizier ran to Abdul the Damned, and Abdul yelled for Sir Nicholas O'Connor; and they caught me in the Pera Palace and handed ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... and whose descent is traceable by genealogy to the loins of the Apostle of God,[FN267] nor is it seemly that his daughter be in the power of a man who is an ape-dancer, a minstrel.' And do thou rejoin, 'Nay, O Effendi, she is my lawful wife and every hair of her is worth a thousand lives, and I will not let her go, though I be given the kingship of the world.' Then be thou persuaded to speak the word of divorce and so ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... a printing press, for printing books in the Turkish, Arabic and Persian languages, and a weekly newspaper in Arabic and Italian. The library and the press are under the superintendence of Osman Noureddin Effendi, a young Turk of great good sense, and who is well versed in the literature of Europe, where he has resided for several years, by order of the Viceroy, for his education: he is at present engaged in translating into Turkish some works on ...
— A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar • George Bethune English
... month of October of this year, the First Consul received in public audience Haled-Effendi, the ambassador ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant |
