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Chow Phya Sri Sury-wongse Samuha P'hra-Kralahome, the Prime Minister, who is the principal head of the Government and royal cousin, to seat themselves near to his side on his bedstead where he lay, and other principals of royalty and nobility, to seat themselves in that room where he was lying, that they might be able to ascertain his speech by hearing.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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In his eighteenth year he married a noble lady, descended from the Phya
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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Phya-Othong founded, near the river Meinam, about sixty miles from the
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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Phya steamer with the mail, I was formally summoned by the king to return to my duties, I quietly obeyed, making no allusion to my
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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Excellency Chow Phya Sri-Sury Wongse Samuha-P'hra Kralahome, I have thought that "an abstract and brief chronicle" of the times of the strange people over whom he is not less than second in dignity and power, would not be out of place.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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The astute young king, who in his priestly character had penetrated many state secrets, advanced to greet him, and with the double purpose of procuring the adherence and testing the fidelity of this discontented and wavering son of his stanch old champion, the Duke Somdetch Ong Yai, appointed him on the spot to the command of the army, under the title of Phya P'hra Kralahome.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870
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The reading was intoned in a uniform high recitative, strongly resembling that used when our Church Service is intoned; and the long-drawn "Phya-a-a-a-a" (my lord) which concluded it, added to the resemblance, as it came in exactly like the "Amen" of the Liturgy.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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Pheu Thai spokesman said relatives of one of the two dead people found floating in the Chao Phya had been pressured by the government to have the body cremated.
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After initially having trouble with their "Teeth" challenge, Margie and Luke were still able to finish it and be the first team to receive their next clue instructing them to go to the Phya Thai Palace, the Race's Pit Stop for its eighth leg.
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A sand barge collided into the rear of the boat which pulled it on Chao Phya Saturday morning, injuring one worker.
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