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
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
This opportunity was afforded me by an embassy from the land of the Franks to the Sublime Porte.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
In like manner we speak of the Sublime Porte, and mean the Sultan and his government; furthermore, the name of the ancient Egyptian ruler, Pharaoh, means nothing other than "great court room."
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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