cauzee

As soon as the cauzee was come in, he caned one of his slaves, who had deserved chastisement.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

They knocked with inconceivable fury at the door, and the cauzee sent slave to see what was the matter; but the slave being frightened, returned to his master, crying, "Sir, above ten thousand men are going to break into your house by force."

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

Immediately the cauzee himself ran, opened the door, and asked what they wanted.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

The young lady mitigated my apprehension on the first head, by assuring me the cauzee, came but seldom to her chamber, and as she had forseen that this misadventure might happen, she had contrived a way to convey me out safely: but the indiscretion of the accursed barber made me very uneasy; and you shall hear that my uneasiness was not without ground.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

I lifted up my head, and turning, saw the first cauzee of the city, mounted on a mule, and attended by five or six servants: he alighted at the door of the house, where the young lady had opened the window, and went in; from whence I concluded he was her father.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

As I heard all that the barber said to the cauzee, I sought for a place to conceal myself, and could find nothing but a large empty trunk, in which I lay down, and shut it upon me.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

"There is no occasion for so many words," replied the cauzee, "nor to make so great a noise: if what you say is true, go and find him out, I give you free liberty."

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

Thus the barber cried aloud in the street it was not enough for him to have occasioned so great a scandal in the quarter where the cauzee lived, but he would have it known through the whole town.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

I had then two things to fear, the arrival of the cauzee, and the presence of the barber.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

You know how strict our judges are, in enjoining the punctual observance of the severe laws that confine women; and they are yet more strict in the observation of them in their own families; the cauzee you saw is more rigid in that point than any of the other magistrates.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791