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  • So Cross created what he calls a pasha's bed: "anything you can put in a little, narrow space and put pillows on it and make a place to relax."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • So Cross created what he calls a pasha's bed: "anything you can put in a little, narrow space and put pillows on it and make a place to relax."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • When Istanbul socialite Ahu Aysal took over a ruined 18th-century pasha's mansion on the banks of the Bosphorus, she had grand gestures in mind.

    Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels Forbes Life Staff 2010

  • I also went to a restaurant that serves dishes based on recipes from the pasha's kitchens.

    The Two Continents Of Istanbul Akhil Sharma 2010

  • Then, I venture on my own to report from Jerusalem, where I will be staying in a sumptuous former Turkish pasha's palace.

    Picturing the Holy Land 2009

  • Radzivilus was much taken with the pasha's palace in Cairo, and amongst many other objects which that place afforded, with that solemnity of cutting the banks of the Nile by Imbram Pasha, when it overflowed, besides two or three hundred gilded galleys on the water, he saw two millions of men gathered together on the land, with turbans as white as snow; and 'twas a goodly sight.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • With this maritime power the pasha's piratical activities drew in large revenues in the form of captured property, protection money, and ransom payments for captives.

    d. Libya 2001

  •     She rode out of the pasha's royal complex and reined the horse in.

    The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

  • Instead he was seated on the former pasha's throne, patting his fingertips together.

    The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

  • Instead he was seated on the former pasha's throne, patting his fingertips together.

    The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998

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