mudirieh

It is to-day a village called Kebt, or Keft, with about 2500 inhabitants, subject to the mudirieh of Keneh; it is situated near the right bank of the Nile, between Denderah (Tynteris) and Karnak (Thebes), about 620 miles from Cairo.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Two hours later Dicky, with pale face, and fingers clutching his heavy riding-whip fiercely, came quickly towards the bridge where he must cross to go to the mudirieh.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Then he had tried another tack: he had thrown in his interest with her first school in his mudirieh; he got her Arab teachers from Cairo who could speak English; he opened the large schoolhouse himself with great ceremony, and with many kavasses in blue and gold.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

Two hours later Dicky, with pale face, and fingers clutching his heavy riding-whip fiercely, came quickly towards the bridge where he must cross to go to the mudirieh.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

Yet all the time he laughed in his sleeve, for he foresaw the day when all this money the Two Strange People were spending in his mudirieh should become his own.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

The boat had now reached a point opposite the mudirieh, its stopping-place; and the raw-bone, reeking with sweat and blood, stood still and trembled, its knees shaking with the strain just taken off them, its head sunk nearly to the ground.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Ebn Haroun behind the ghaffirs, and therefore permitted himself to be marched off to the mudirieh.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

She realised what a prodigious liar Shelek Pasha was; for, talking benignly of equitable administration as he did, she recalled the dark stories she had heard of rapine and cruel imprisonment in this same mudirieh.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Then he had tried another tack: he had thrown in his interest with her first school in his mudirieh; he got her Arab teachers from Cairo who could speak English; he opened the large schoolhouse himself with great ceremony, and with many kavasses in blue and gold.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Yet all the time he laughed in his sleeve, for he foresaw the day when all this money the Two Strange People were spending in his mudirieh should become his own.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897