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"Bashaws" (the printer having added an S by mistake), and in the preceding stage-direction, and in the fifth speech of this scene, "Bashaw": but in an earlier scene
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 1578
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When the French landed, at the bombardment of Mogador, they released fifty or sixty state prisoners, some of whom had been Bashaws, or ministers of this and former reigns.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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These Banking Bashaws with three tails, who must clip
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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Tunis, and Tripoli, by Bashaws from the Grand Seignior [sic].
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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The Bashaws, and others holding responsible situations in the empire, are continually purchasing a good name and good report at court, by courtesy to and by feeing the ministers of the Emperor to report favourably of them, whenever opportunity may offer.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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The empire is divided into 25 governments, of which there are seven in Europe, seventeen in Asia, and Egypt makes one of itself; two of the governments have what they call Beglerbergs at the head of them, and the rest are governed by Bashaws.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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I thank Heaven, I got the better of the redoubted Sir _Robert_, in that important Affair; and if I had liv'd a little longer, and my Organs had not declined too fast, I would have kept all the great Bashaws of _Europe_ in my
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The Bashaws and the Divan, heavily bribed by the corsair, held the same language, until Soliman heard of nothing from morning till night but the ill deeds of the Knights of Malta.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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I corresponded _myself_ with the Emperors, Princes, and Bashaws in this language; my commercial connections were _very_ extensive, amongst all the most respectable merchants who traded with Timbuctoo and other countries of Sudan.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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They levied toll on the Planters who had taken over the confiscated Irish estates; they avenged some of the wrongs inflicted upon the peasantry, and they checked the exactions of the Bashaws of the west and south, as Lecky calls the landowners of the time.
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