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
She held friendly intercourse with the Sublime Porte, with the various pachas, and with the chiefs of the numerous tribes of Arabs and others about her.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
We cannot conceive what benefit the Sublime Porte derives from this vain delay.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 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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