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  • Solyman regained it by the treachery of the garrison, and voluntarily gave it into the hands of king John of Hungary; after whose death, his son being an infant, Ferdinand laid siege to it, and the queen mother was forced to call Solyman to her aid.

    Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724

  • In his 80-page Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth and their Proper Remedies (1833) Solyman Brown, a New Englander, dentist and graduate of Yale, sought to offer reassurance, though his lines nevertheless unfurl a gloomy vista:

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • In his 80-page Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth and their Proper Remedies (1833) Solyman Brown, a New Englander, dentist and graduate of Yale, sought to offer reassurance, though his lines nevertheless unfurl a gloomy vista:

    The chair 2009

  • Solyman II., and suffocated in a brook, by a fall from his horse, during the retreat.

    Letter to a Friend 2007

  • Kien Long, particularly, is considered a great poet; but Solomon, or Solyman, the Hebrew, has still more reputation than Kien Long, the Chinese.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Kiba, in his “Mirror of the Faithful,” relates that one of the viziers of the great Solyman addressed the following discourse to an agent of Charles V.:

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Even Solyman knew his courage and ferocity as a soldier.

    The Virginians 2006

  • The which fatherly motion easilie entered into him and was imprinted in the heart and yoong will of the sayde Solyman, his sonne, the which soone after the death of his father put in effect the first enterprise, and raised an huge hoste both by water and by land, and went himselfe in person against Bellegrado, a right strong place in Hungarie.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Charles 5. vnto king Henry the 8. in the yeere 1527 desiring his aide against Solyman the great Turke.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Iohn Faber a famous clerke, after bishop of Vien, as ambassadours from Don Ferdinando, brother to Charles the emperor, newly elected king of Hungarie and Beame, after the death of his brother in law king Lewes, which was slaine by Solyman the Turke the last Sommer.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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