Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a bey; incumbency of such office.
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The prohibition against carrying arms is rigid as in Italy; all “violence” is violently denounced; and beheading being deemed cruel, the most atrocious crimes, as well as those small political offences, which in the days of the Mamluks would have led to a beyship or a bow-string, receive fourfold punishment by deportation to
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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