Usage examples of "imshi".
It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate!
Suddenly he remembered that it was like the face of a servant of Imshi Pasha--a kind of mouffetish of his household.
All at once the suspicion struck him: Imshi Pasha had sent the girl--to try him perhaps, to gain power over him maybe, as women had gained power over strong men before.
But why should Imshi Pasha send the girl and his mouffetish on this miserable mission?
Dimsdale was angry for a moment, and he said some hard words of Imshi Pasha as he watched the two decoys hurry away into the dusk.
He realised that Imshi Pasha had given him his hand that he might ruin himself, that his own schemes might overwhelm him in the end.
At every turn he had been frustrated--by Imshi Pasha: three years of underground circumvention, with a superficial approval and a mock support.
IV When he woke again it was to find at his bedside a kavass from Imshi Pasha at Cairo.
Dimsdale answered in kind, with a touch of plaintive humour, letting the envelope fall from his fingers on the bed, so little was he interested in any fresh move of Imshi Pasha.
Deputy Librarian Ness merely sniffed at Lirael and sent her to First Assistant Librarian Roslin, who kissed her absently on the cheek and sent her to Second Assistant Librarian Imshi, who was only twenty and not long promoted from the yellow silk waistcoat of a Third Assistant to the red of a Second.
As Imshi had said, she could easily blow into it just by lowering her head.
When Imshi started to thumb through an index of Charter marks, Lirael shook her head and put the mouse in its special pocket.
Should she tell Imshi or someone higher up about the thing that was loose in the flower-field chamber?
Bedlam, and Boom-Boom, and Imshi, and Glug, and Firedance, and Fuzzball.
This word imshi, meaning to be gone, or scram, was of a language spoken pretty generally in the Near East.