Sublime Porte
Britishnoun
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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
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 matter of the stolen plans is being taken up by our Ambassador at the Sublime Porte.
From The Dark Star by Stevens, William Dodge
He has advanced money to the Sublime Porte, and taken as security a mortgage upon the holy city of Jerusalem, and the sepulchre of our Saviour.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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