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" Street to a little ferocious-looking, shrivelled, care-worn man, plainly dressed, with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind and comparatively insignificant Kalio Bey... "
Contarini Fleming. Alroy. Romances - Page 171
by Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846
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Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Autobiography, Volume 2

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1832 - 184 pages
...comparatively insignificant Kalio Bey with a feeling of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who, as my attendant informed...upwards of four thousand of my acquaintance," with the self-possessidn of a morning visit. At a distance from us, in a group on his left-hand, were his secretary,...
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Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Autobiography, Volume 2

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1832 - 192 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. . I eptered the shed-like divan of the kind, and comparatively insignificant...of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who, as my attendant informed me, had destroyed, in the course of the...
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Contarini Fleming: An Autobiography

Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 116 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind, and comparatively insignificant...of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the grand vizier of the Ottoman empire, who, as my attendant informed me, had destroyed, in the course of the...
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Home Letters

Benjamin Disraeli - 1885 - 160 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind and comparatively insignificant...of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the Grand Vizier (' who,' the Austrian Consul observed, 'has destroyed in the course of the last three months,'...
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Lord Beaconsfield's Letters, 1830-1852

Benjamin Disraeli - 1887 - 272 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind and comparatively insignificant...of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the Grand Vizier (' who,' the Austrian Consul observed, ' has destroyed in the course of the last three months,'...
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British Letters Illustrative of Character and Social Life, Volume 2

Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 282 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind and comparatively insignificant...of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the Grand Vizier ("who," the Austrian Consul observed, " has destroyed in the course of the last three months,"...
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The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume 1

William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1910 - 468 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind and comparatively insignificant...of awe ; I seated myself on the divan of the Grand Vizier (' who,' the Austrian Consul observed, ' has destroyed in the course of the last three months,'...
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Portraits of the Seventies

George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 1322 pages
...introduced to " a very celebrated Minister," called Redschid Pasha; of whom the introducer said: "he has destroyed in the course of the last three months —...— upwards of four thousand of my acquaintance." And what was this Minister like ? Now the utterance becomes still more deliberate. "A very ferocious-looking,...
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Portraits of the Seventies

George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 590 pages
...introduced to "a very celebrated Minister," called Eedschid Pasha; of whom the introducer said : "he has destroyed in the course of the last three months — not in war — upwards of four Four Demagogues 199 thousand of my acquaintance." And what was this Minister like ? Now the utterance...
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Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Romance [&] The Rise of Iskander

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1919 - 490 pages
...with a brow covered with wrinkles, and a countenance clouded with anxiety and thought. I entered the shed-like divan of the kind and comparatively insignificant...destroyed in the course of the last three months, iiot in war, ' upwards of four thousand of my acquaintance, ' with the self-possession of a morning...
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