Ahkoond

Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable led Through the Indian Ocean\'s bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Med - Iterranean -- he \'s dead; The Ahkoond is dead!

Juan Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! 2009

Ahkoond, but at several miles distance, a few trees are visible in nooks: the only green along the banks of the river, is occasioned apparently by

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Then the cables take up the refrain and word is flashed all over the world, The Ahkoond of Swat is Dead.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

The death of the Ahkoond of Swat, and whether Great Britain should support as his successor Mustalpha El Djin or Kamu Flaj, -- there is something worth talking of over an afternoon tea table.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

There is a distinct sensation in the House at the realisation that the Ahkoond has been dead a month without the House having known that he was alive.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

The foreign secretary states that the government have no information other than that the Ahkoond was dead a month ago.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

The public who have never heard of the Ahkoond bare their heads in a moment in a pause to pray for the Ahkoond's soul.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

One month you find English politics turning on the Oasis of Merv and the next on the hinterland of Albania; or a member rises in the Commons with a little bit of paper in his hand and desires to ask the foreign secretary if he is aware that the Ahkoond of Swat is dead.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

There was a Canadian journalist and poet once who was so impressed with the news that the Ahkoond was dead, so bowed down with regret that he had never known the Ahkoond while alive, that he forthwith wrote a poem in memory of The Ahkoond of Swat.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

I waited therefore and watched the papers to see if anything interesting might happen to the Ahkoond of Swat or the Sandjak of Novi Bazar or any other native potentate.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906