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He's my chief o 'staff ... and just guess - "he poked me in the chest" - who I've been moving heaven and earth to have as my intelligence bimbashi!

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He's my chief o 'staff ... and just guess - "he poked me in the chest" - who I've been moving heaven and earth to have as my intelligence bimbashi!

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

So that there was little extra argument required to induce one of our Turkish officer prisoners -- the bimbashi himself, in fact -- to write the letter to Wassmuss that Ranjoor Singh required.

Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

I watched from between two great boulders, I beheld a Turkish convoy of about six hundred infantry, led by a bimbashi on a gray horse, with a string of pack-mules trailing out behind them, and five loaded donkeys led by soldiers in the midst.

Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

I delighted the heart of the bimbashi by a baksheesh of half a napoleon, which so astonished him that he hardly knew how to express himself, after all his bitter words and unkind intentions.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

Finally came the doctor, an Italian, and we had an excursion into general politics, after which another coffee and cigarette, and then, with the visa of the bimbashi, we were permitted to move on to Podgoritza.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

To say that I was at ease on this trip would be exaggeration, the more as the zaptie-bimbashi talked freely to his subordinate about us, and vented his rage at being obliged to make such a journey for two beastly infidels, to whom the only grateful service he could render was decapitation.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

Yet he did not know that Wake minor would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

He has shamed Egypt at last into admiration for Wyndham bimbashi: to the deep satisfaction of Hassan, the Soudanese boy, who received his fifty pounds, and to this day wears the belt which once kept him in the narrow path of duty.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Now soldiers without number, gladly risking death, had deserted from the army of the Khedive; they had bought themselves out with enormous backsheesh, they had been thieves, murderers, panderers, that they might be freed from service by some corrupt pasha or bimbashi; but no one in the knowledge of the world had ever been expelled from the army of the Khedive.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897