Arab leaders

Usage examples of sheiks.

Even in the time of the Prophet more than two millennia before, enterprising desert sheiks had schemed to purloin the semen of prize stallions and race it across the sands to waiting mares.

The fiction was that sheiks and their retainers were trusted without question, though in practice, bodyguards usually found themselves cooling their heels in an anteroom, generously provided with refreshments to remove any sting.

And in the meantime, the Chamberlain is neglecting to pay the soldiers and bribe the tribal sheiks whose loyalty you depend on.

It would hold a very large harem, I thought, and wondered again how sheiks and Tyrants managed honeymoons.