mullish

Example Sentences

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The Bāb himself was liable at any moment to be called into a conference of mullas and high state-officers, and asked absurd questions.

From The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by Cheyne, Thomas Kelly

For ’twould kair any mush wafro to shoon the navyas of the mullas a’t ’were cāmmoben to him.”

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Unwisely enough, the governor left the field open to the mullas, who thought by placing the pulpit of the great mosque at his disposal to be able to find material for ecclesiastical censure.

From The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by Cheyne, Thomas Kelly

The mullas, in short, became masters of the situation, and, having once succeeded in subordinating private quarrels to hatred of the common foe, the movement rapidly assumed the aspect of a religious war.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh