Use "pashas" in a sentence

1. Everywhere you looked, he was pictured with his family, with his musical friends, and with a good many statesmen, pashas, and potentates

2. I did not understand that with my question, "How do you know what to teach and how to teach?" I was like a man who, let us say, in a gathering of Turkish pashas discussing the question in what manner they may collect the greatest revenue from the people, should propose to them the following: "Gentlemen, in order to know how much revenue to collect from each, we must first analyze the question on what your right to exact that revenue is based

3. " Obviously all the pashas would continue their discussion of the measures of extortion, and would reply only with silence to his irrelevant question