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bimbashi

n. (alternative spelling of binbashi English)

Usage examples of "bimbashi".

Your son shall ride for me through the desert even to Farafreh, and bear a letter to the bimbashi there.

Where the bimbashi and his officers were afraid to go lest the bald-headed eagle and the vulture should carry away their heads as titbits to the Libyan hills, Seti was sent.

He had outlived all the officers who left Manfaloot with the regiment save the bimbashi, and the bimbashi was superstitious and believed that while Seti lived he would live.

Many sorts of original sin had been his, with profit and prodigious pleasure, but when, by the supposed orders of the bimbashi, he went through Khartoum levying a tax upon every dancing-girl in the place and making her pay upon the spot at the point of a merciless tongue, he went one step too far.

He even boldly offered to tell the pasha where half his own ill-gotten gains were hid, if he would let the bimbashi go.

So it was also that the bimbashi went back to his regiment with all his limbs intact.

In the presence of his regiment, drawn up in the Beit-el-Mal, before his trembling bimbashi, whose lips were now pale with terror at the loss of his mascot, Mahommed Seti was drummed out of line, out of his regiment, out of the Beit-el-Mal.

William William Sowerby Has come out for to see The way of a bimbashi With Egyptian Cavalree.

Now that his cup of mistakes was full, Wyndham bimbashi would willingly have made the attempt to carry word to the garrison there.

This was the reason that Wyndham bimbashi and his Gippies, and the Sheikh and his household, faced the fact, the morning after Hassan left, that there was scarce a goolah of water for a hundred burning throats.

And just at that very time, Bimbashi Hilary Joyce, seconded from the Royal Mallow Fusiliers, and temporarily attached to the Ninth Soudanese, made his first appearance in Cairo.

Joyce was a martinet at drill, and the blacks loved being drilled, so the Bimbashi was soon popular among them.

He will be much more respected, as Bimbashi, than he would be as lieutenant, a title that they would not understand.

The title of Bimbashi, which had seemed absurd to him seven months before, was now nothing out of the way, for he looked as old as many of the British subalterns serving with that rank in the Egyptian army.

Colonel Wingate often requested, urgently, that the young Bimbashi should be sent out to investigate the matter.