Sublime Porte
Britishnoun
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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
"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
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
Even Hafiz Bey, he felt assured, possessed some knowledge of the intrigues of the Sublime Porte against Mohammed Ali's domination, and made use of this mercantile affair as a veil to other projects.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
After hanging fire for a very long time, the Berne Convention between Great Britain and the Sublime Porte was signed, and in the course of time copies reached Afion-Kara-Hissar.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John
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