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The Resident took measures to protect them from further violence, recalled the wakeel; and, after admonishing him for his dishonourable conduct, had the prisoners taken unfettered to a convenient house near the prison.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

Khazai was recently named a wakeel, or representative, for Sistani and another of the four grand ayatollahs who make up the top Shiite religious authority in Iraq, the marjiya.

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"Nothing can be more true, sir," rejoined the wakeel.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

The wakeel, whom he kept at Court for such occasions, heard of the order for the supercession and arrest, and forthwith sent off a note to his master by the fastest foot-messenger he could get.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

The subadar presented a petition to me, and, after taking the depositions of the old zumeendars and other witnesses, I requested the king's wakeel, to send off a company of Soubha Sing's Regiment, to arrest him and his gang.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

I ordered the King's wakeel to take these two brothers to the

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

Many of the sipahees of the Mobarick Pultun, on detached duty with the king's wakeel in attendance upon me, were this morning arrested, while taking off the choppers from the houses of villages along the road and around my camp, for fuel and fodder, in what they called the

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

The minister and Durbar Wakeel had been swept away by the crowd, who rushed into the palace, and separated from the Resident and his party, and as they passed through the balcony overlooking the river, the wakeel threw off his turban, and leaped over from a height of about twenty feet.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

I had heard of the affair of the Durveish from the minister, through his wakeel, and from Captain Bird, the first Assistant, in a letter.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

On my remarking to the King's wakeel that these ruffians had all high-sounding names, he said, "They are really all men of high lineage; and men of that class, who become ruffians, are always sure to be of the worst description."

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822