bashi-bazouk

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

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

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

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

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