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  • Our bore has a crushing brother in the East, who, somehow or other, was admitted to smoke pipes with Mehemet Ali, and instantly became an authority on the whole range of Eastern matters, from Haroun Alraschid to the present Sultan.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • She sympathized with the fallen Napoleon, and with Mehemet Ali, massacring the foreign usurpers of Egypt.

    Two Poets 2007

  • He became omniscient, as to foreign policy, in the smoking of those pipes with Mehemet Ali.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • She sympathized with the fallen Napoleon, and with Mehemet Ali, massacring the foreign usurpers of Egypt.

    Two Poets 2007

  • When he came before the presence, Mehemet Ali reproached him with his horrible cruelty and exactions; asked him how he dared to treat his faithful and beloved subjects in this way, and threatened him with disgrace, and the utter confiscation of his property, for thus having reduced a district to ruin.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • The great lion of the place is a new mosque which Mehemet Ali is constructing very leisurely.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Some Mameluke Aga, or Bey, whom Mehemet Ali invited to breakfast and massacred, was the proprietor of this mansion once: it has grown dingier, but, perhaps, handsomer, since his time.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • According to the narrative of the German doctor, Ferdinand Werne, the expedition attempted in 1840, under the auspices of Mehemet Ali, stopped at

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • In truth, this half-ruined convent, guarded by the proud heart of an English gentlewoman, was the only spot throughout all Syria and Palestine in which the will of Mehemet Ali and his fierce lieutenant was not the law.

    Eothen 2003

  • It was after an insurrection, which had been raised against the authority of Mehemet Ali, that Bethlehem was freed from the hateful laws of Asiatic decorum.

    Eothen 2003

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