The pasha was a brave and energetic man of iron will, a great soldier and an expert architect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1] Reference

The pasha was a small, spare, dark little man, with his black beard clipped as close as scissors could do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

As Mr. Connelly observes, the dispensers of population-control grants often enjoyed a kind of pasha existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Against Fertility] Reference

The pasha did not dine with his daughter that night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

Bagdad is governed by a pasha, assisted by a council.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The pasha has established there for his own use, a kind of.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

The pasha stroked his beard as he observed in a calm tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference

Go, return to your tents, be happy, and leave the pasha to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

Again the pasha bowed and again Ryder felt the throb of triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

"He operates like a pasha," says a Western diplomat in Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arafat Rebounds (Again)] Reference

In 1534 he seized Tunis, acting as capitan pasha for the sultan Suleiman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

After all, Barbassou is a pasha, is it still necessary to remind you of that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

A fortune, he announced, was coming to the pasha -- or to the pasha's family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

This is a person inferior to a regular pasha, having in fact a sort of acting rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

"There is no Mademoiselle Delcassé," repeated the pasha, his eyes frankly enlivened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

What does the pasha mean by claiming you and your tribe as the subjects of his government?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

As soon as possible we sallied out to pay the necessary visit to the pasha of the district.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

In this outpouring I excepted, as you may be sure, the revelations of my career as a pasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

He was an exuberant pasha, described by film director Steven Spielberg as "a 6-foot-3 E.T.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Of A Dreamer] Reference

A very short time after our arrival an officer from the pasha appeared at Kermanshah, bearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

Show-business salaries are so inflated that next to a normal salary it's like a pasha or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reconstructing Woody] Reference

There he paused and the pasha continued to smile non-committally, but the word fortune was operating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

Every train into Wilmington is thus attended, as the palfrey of an Eastern pasha by the running footman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference

Scio; and the pasha of Saloni'ca boasted that he had destroyed, in one day, fifteen hundred women and children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

The pasha would send the application to the emir, and do you not think the emir would arrange the affair as he pleased?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

His successor was a Sardinian; soon afterwards a Corsican became pasha of Algiers, then another Sardinian; Ochiali was a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

I observed, that an application would very possibly be made to the pasha, by the consul, if Asaad was not soon delivered up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

It was reported that he burnt the villages of the assassins, and sent several heads to the pasha as tokens of his victories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

He addressed her as "querida," in that indulgent tone which is peculiar to him, like a pasha who is signifying his approbation.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

Vested with the office of captain pasha, he sent to Greece for architects and engineers, with whose assistance he fortified Stamboul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Hasan as pasha or Beglerbeg of Algiers (1568), and one of his first acts was to retake Tunis (all but the Goletta) in the name of Sultan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

It was said that, in going through a bazaar, all the people rose up as she passed, an honour never paid but to a pasha, or to the mufti. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

The chair of a proconsul, the saddle of a pasha -- these are golden baits; yet these are below the throne and diadem of a sovereign prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference