Bashi-Bazouk

When I was taken at Silistria, although I was officially with the Bashi-Bazouk people, I was more on the political side, really.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The atrocities which shocked the world were, without exception, the work of the auxiliaries -- the Tchircasse, the Bashi-Bazouk, the Zeibeck, the

The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray

When we clattered into the cobbled street, we found a solitary Bashi-Bazouk armed with a Winchester repeating rifle.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

The sergeant rode towards a dilapidated wattled fence and wrenched from it a thick stake with which he administered such a hiding to that Bashi-Bazouk as I never saw one man bestow upon another before or since.

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

Magaud's talent was universal; his portraits, and especially that of himself, are remarkable; then he took up landscape painting, and has left us among others "A view taken from St. Martha's near Marseilles; his genre paintings include a famous" Bashi-Bazouk calling up

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Dicky Donovan understood, and Fielding understood; and Fielding never afterwards mounted Bashi-Bazouk but he remembered.

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

But next evening at sunset Mahommed Seti came into the fort, slashed and bleeding, with Bashi-Bazouk limping heavily after him.

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

The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of Bashi-Bazouk like silk.

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

But Mahomet's phrases were recited in the mosque, and Seti's, as he rubbed Bashi-Bazouk with the tail of his yelek.

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

Fielding did not know how it was that, falling wounded from his horse, he was caught by strong arms, as Bashi-Bazouk cleared him at a bound and broke into the desert.

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