What is "janissary"

Usage examples of "janissary".

The very first order laid upon me was never to go out unknown to the bailo, and without being escorted by a janissary, and this order I obeyed to the letter.

The second day after my first visit to him being a Thursday, the pacha did not forget to send a janissary according to his promise.

The day after our arrival, I took a janissary to accompany me to Osman Pacha, of Caramania, the name assumed by Count de Bonneval ever since he had adopted the turban.

He invited me to dine with him every Thursday, and undertook to send me a janissary who would protect me from the insults of the rabble and shew me everything worth seeing.

It was about eleven in the morning when the janissary called for me, I followed him, and this time I found Bonneval dressed in the Turkish style.

The eunuch suspected some kind of Janissary plot, but the seraskier had prudently decided to keep his terms vague.

The Galata Tower housed a Karagozi tekke, a place sacred to the Janissaries.

Galata Tower and also the old tekke in the Janissary headquarters, now buried beneath the Imperial Stables.

Turkish army and navy, bribed the descendants of the Janissaries, consulted with pashas and ministers and laid aside trust funds for their grandsons, acquired rights to the wells in Mecca and all wells on all routes leading to Mecca, bought two hundred of the existing two hundred and forty-four industrial enterprises in the Turkish realm, dismissed and reappointed the Armenian and Greek and Latin Greek and Syrian Greek patriarchs in Jerusalem and the Coptic patriarch in Alexandria, leased four thousand kilometers of railway lines, established dowries for the daughters of the principal landowners between the Persian Gulf and the Anatolian highlands, refurbished the gold mosaics and polychrome marbles of Santa Sophia, so that by the time he was ready to leave the city anyone who could ever be in a position of power in that part of the world was under his control.

So as the caravan left the Nile behind and began winding through the 2,400 wards and quarters of Cairo, it was carefully followed by Janissaries, not to mention hundreds of beggars, Vagabonds, pedlars, courtesans, and curious boys.

For their cart had already come under attack from a mixed mob of thieves, Vagabonds, Janissaries, and French soldiers.

He invited me to dine with him every Thursday, and undertook to send me a janissary who would protect me from the insults of the rabble and shew me everything worth seeing.

His mouth curled down at the corners as he remembered the sharp thudding of the Turkish guns and the hiss of grapeshot whipping across the plain to rip into the Christian ranks, the whirling scimitars of the weirdly wailing Janissaries blocking any advance, and the despairing cry that went up from the defenders of the west when it became evident that the Turks had outflanked them.

The landsknechten know the wages of hot-headed charges -- and those Turks out there are Janissaries, the best fighting men in the East.

The Janissaries still stood in the lee of the wall, apparently reloading for another volley.