Sublime Porte
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"It Ill Becomes�" President Harding's foreign policy, often the target of political tongues, has seldom been more vigorously excoriated than it was by Henry Morgenthau, former United States Ambassador to the Sublime Porte.
From Time Magazine Archive
Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That.
From Time Magazine Archive
My father was an interpreter at the Sublime Porte, carrying on at the same time quite a lucrative trade in ottar of roses and silk goods.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm
Then he handed Mr. Budden-Reynolds the letter from the Sublime Porte, together with the French translation.
From The White Lie by Le Queux, William
The Sultan returned to the Palace and immediately sent one of his eunuchs to the Sublime Porte to see the Grand Vizier and find out the meaning of these strange proceedings.
From Told in the Coffee House Turkish Tales by Adler, Cyrus
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