Word: aga
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...voice (you know, O Issa, friend of my youth, that I had quite a reputation for that sort of thing in Teheran), I entered, when, Bismillah! a fierce, white-bearded Mollah, guarding a beauteous, moon-faced damsel, imprisoned behind a high fence, confronted me. He is, doubtless, the Kislar Aga of the Dhin's household. I wished to succor the damsel, who kept crying in evident distress, "Don't know. Must see the Dhin, Mr. Jones," to a young man who appeared to be tormenting...
...AGA...