Lexicographical Neighbors of Eltchi
Literary usage of Eltchi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Victorians: Memories and Personalities by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1916)
"... playing croquet—The gentleman on the garden bench—The great "eltchi" as seen
in the lobby of the House—Debate on the Quadruple Alliance—His only speech, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"In the days of the great eltchi, things would, if we may credit Mr. ... Either our
present eltchi is not so imposing to look at, or the Turks arc tired of ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"And frankness compels me to add that the "great eltchi" was more kind in his
opinion of its social charms than the majority of his colleagues of the corps. ..."
4. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1886)
"... to become nauseated by the absurd pompousness with which the historian overlays
his descriptions of "the great eltchi," as he is pleased to call him, ..."
5. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1884)
"... to become nauseated by the absurd pompousness with which the historian overlays
his descriptions of " the great eltchi," as he is pleased to call him, ..."
6. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"to the great eltchi. They did not, perhaps, mean to conceal from him, but they
shrank from the terror of seeing his anger when he came to know of Prince ..."
7. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler, Vasilīĭ Vasilʹevich Grigorʹev (1876)
"... eltchi ! (Ambassador). The Ministers, however, not content with his answer,
did not receive him as such. To the question of the Kush-begi as to the ..."
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