bashi-bazouk

How to use bashi-bazouk in a sentence

• Even a bashi-bazouk must have quailed before that amazing declaration and that patient resignation to fate.

  The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman Day

• There is something about him as exotic as a samovar, as essentially un-American as a bashi-bazouk, a nose-ring or a fugue.

  A Book of Prefaces | H. L. Mencken

• The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of bashi-bazouk like silk.

  Donovan Pasha And Some People Of Egypt, Complete | Gilbert Parker

• Failure would seem to have been inevitable, but the pluck and enterprise of the ex-bashi-bazouk overcame all difficulties.

  Through the Land of the Serb | Mary Edith Durham

• Compared with Albania, London, even now in the eyes of the ex-bashi-bazouk, is a vast and uncivilised wilderness.

  Through the Land of the Serb | Mary Edith Durham