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Villa is said to have produced before the senate of Venice a letter from Morosini to the vizir, offering to betray him into the hands of the Turks.
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The harbour of Candia (now almost choked up) was at all times so small, and with so little depth of water, as to afford shelter only to galleys, the station of the larger vessels being at the isle of Standia, at some leagues' distance.
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The appointment of the Greek Panayoti marks an important change in the system of Ottoman diplomacy; as previously the Porte had disdained to employ the rayahs in places of trust, depending wholly, in their intercourse with foreign ambassadors, on the interpreters attached to the suite of the latter.
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Bashlík—a bonnet worn in bad weather.
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Give him her feelings—a Tartar phrase.
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Willingly, if you please? Literally, "on my head, on my eyes."
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This cushion is embroidered with jewels, and is invaluable.
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The Mussulmans believe, that in the northern burial-ground of Derbénd, are buried the forty first true believers, who were martyred by the idolaters.
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God gave—Much good may it do you.
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Brown's Lectures, Lecture xxviii.