janissary

• I then heard the fits of laughter of the janissary, who lay on the couch in the same room as I did; and I soon saw that he had simply placed on my bed a large hedgehog to amuse himself by my uneasiness. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• There was also a shirt showing an elite Ottoman janissary; written across the bottom in the same font as the movie title, "The Empire Strikes Back."
• Then, the orchestral scherzo with tenor Jan Peerce erupts, its janissary colors swirling banners in the wind. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
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• Brown leaped upon him, caught the pistol as it exploded just in time to turn the muzzle aside, wrenched the weapon from his foe's grasp, and brought the butt of it down with such a whack on his head that it laid him beside his comrade Turning quickly to the still struggling pair, he saw that the janissary was black in the face, and that Sommers was compressing his throat with both hands and had his knee on his stomach, while Hester and Sally were looking on horrified, but hopeful. —  The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story

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