Meanings of grand seignior in English

A terrible fire broke out near the walls of the grand seignior's seraglio.

We were dining with one of our fellow members of the Academy, a grand seignior and a man of intelligence.

All these gay crowds are my visitors, and I defy the grand seignior himself to display a greater variety of beauty.

One grand seignior wanted a regiment, another a government, a third a chamberlain's key; all wanted titles, ribbons, offices, livery, wages.

On the grand seignior's birthday he exhibited some extraordinarily fine fireworks; and I, with numbers of the inhabitants of Constantinople, crowded to see them.

He doubted the good faith and the stability of the grand seigniors.

The common people and the grand seigniors were alike weary of the war.

At this time a man named James A. Wilkinson was Grand Seignior of the temple.

He may kill a wife gradually, and be no more questioned than the Grand seignior who drowns a slave at midnight.

"What is your opinion on this subject?" said the grand seignior to his vizier.

Congress at Sistova, where, in May, 1791, he signed the Treaty of Peace between the Grand Seignior and the Emperor of Germany.

The Grand Seignior formed an alliance with the disaffected Poles, arrested the Russian embassador at Constantinople, and mustered his hosts for war.

It was then that Bonaparte sent Joubert with a letter in his own handwriting, to be delivered into the hands of the Grand Seignior himself.

He had no sympathy with the people, but he loved, as a grand Seignior, to be looked up to and admired by a gaping crowd.

"I have read, sir, that the Grand Seignior of Turkey has bushels of ears sometimes sent in to him," says Mr. Sampson, laughing.