Spahi

The Spahi was a magnificent man, tall, lithe, bronze-brown and muscular.

The Desert Drum 1905 Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

The Agas of the Spahi, Captaines of the horsemen, sixe, at one hundred and fiftie aspers to either of them, maketh sterling, one thousand, nine hundred, three score and eleuen pounds.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The Spahi, men of Armes of the Court and the City, ten thousand, at twenty fiue asters, and maketh of English money, fiue hundred, forty and seuen thousand, and fiue hundred pounds.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In the evening Spahi officers came to the bar to play bagatelle.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

All day and every day did the garrison fight, snatching such repose as was possible when their pertinacious enemies, worn out by fatigue and the terrible heat, could no longer be led to the attack against those whom they now firmly believed to be in league with Shaitan himself; "For how else," demanded Janissary and Spahi alike, "could infidels like these make head against those chosen of the Prophet like ourselves."

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

Craven thought of the life led by the Spahi in Algiers, and during periods of leave in Paris, and contrasted it with the life that was lying before him, a changed and very different existence.

The Shadow of the East

"And you, my poor friend, who had so much better have taken the burnous I offered you, you will stay and watch the metamorphosis of the Spahi, _hein_?"

The Shadow of the East

The meeting of the young Spahi with Craven in Paris had led to the discovery of similar tastes and ultimately to an intimate friendship.

The Shadow of the East

Spahi was not only an evil product of the time, but as the progress of industry in other countries was supplying the Turkish market with many new commodities, so in order to acquire these articles for himself he exacted more and more tribute from the helpless peasants.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

In the old days the Spahi had an arrangement with a whole village, and a system so impersonal was much less onerous than when demands were made from every household individually.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917