"Padishah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... way had they won their ascendency? By thumps, by hard knocks, by a vast assortment of kicks, and by no means through any sanctity of blood. Sanctity indeed!—we should be glad to see the Affghan who would not, upon what he held a sufficient motive, have cut the throat of any shah or shahzade, padishah, or caliph, though it had been that darling of European childhood—Haroun ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various |
