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emir
1. In an instant the surge had ebbed back out of the gorge; there was a chaotic, confused swirl of fighting, horsemen wheeling and smiting singly and in clusters, and then the emir went down with a Kshatriya lance through his breast, and the riders in their spired helmets turned their horses down the valley, spurring like mad and seeking to slash a way through the swarms which had come upon them from the rear
2. "One who withdraws his hand from the obedience to the ruler (Emir)
3. Ingrid had just finished a long telephone conversation with General Glubb Pasha, the British officer who commanded the Arab Legion of Emir Abdallah, the ruler of Transjordan, when someone knocked on the door of her new office
4. but in 20th century, Saidalimkhan, the last Emir of Bukhara, also a descendent of the
5. An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young and lovely wife
6. The emir accepted the condition, and the king led him to the princess, who,
7. The emir, who had expected to hear the princess talk nonsense, finding how
8. manner suitable to an emir or governor of a province
9. "Next I was summoned to build the Palace of the Seven Deserts, as a result of which the Emir showered me with silver and then, not entirely to my surprise, had my right hand cut off
10. In August 1990 the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait, drove the emir into exile, and announced that henceforth Kuwait was a province of Iraq
11. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring
12. When the last echo of his sultan's step has died away, and Starbuck, the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks, and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of pleasantness, "Dinner, Mr
13. The second Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that important rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid "Dinner, Mr
14. But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music
