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  • Seti the servant, the orderly, and some attendant ghaffirs, who, feasting on the remains of the effendi's supper, kept watch.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Seti the servant, the orderly, and some attendant ghaffirs, who, feasting on the remains of the effendi's supper, kept watch.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Mahommed Seti the servant, the orderly, and some attendant ghaffirs, who, feasting on the remains of the effendi's supper, kept watch.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • As one after another the officers of the effendi's household passed round the apartments, we offered them a goblet of champagne, which they severally declined, with a polite but solemn smile -- all except one, a large, savage-looking Turk, with a most ferocious scowl, and the largest black beard I ever beheld.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Charles James Lever 1839

  • As one after another the officers of the effendi's household passed round the apartments, we offered them a goblet of champagne, which they severally declined, with a polite but solemn smile -- all except one, a large, savage-looking Turk, with a most ferocious scowl, and the largest black beard I ever beheld.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • He cut my bonds that I might bandage the _effendi's_ shoulder. "

    Rosa Mundi and Other Stories 1910

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