Janizaries

A Turkish officer with an immense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were supposed to be still in existence, and the tarboosh had not as yet displaced the ancient and majestic head-dress of the true believers) was seen couched on

Vanity Fair 2006

Their sons were whisked away for service in the peculiar institution of the “Janizaries,” an elite guard of the Turkish military manned by soldiers indoctrinated into service after being taken at a young age from Christian homes.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

Their sons were whisked away for service in the peculiar institution of the “Janizaries,” an elite guard of the Turkish military manned by soldiers indoctrinated into service after being taken at a young age from Christian homes.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

Their sons were whisked away for service in the peculiar institution of the “Janizaries,” an elite guard of the Turkish military manned by soldiers indoctrinated into service after being taken at a young age from Christian homes.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

Their sons were whisked away for service in the peculiar institution of the “Janizaries,” an elite guard of the Turkish military manned by soldiers indoctrinated into service after being taken at a young age from Christian homes.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

These Belootchees are a kind of brawling, good-for-nothing Janizaries.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

The night before, the watch, on board one of the smaller vessels anchored near the seraglio wall, was roused by a slight splashing as of muffled oars; the alarm was given: twelve small boats, each containing three Janizaries, were descried endeavouring to make their way through the fleet to the opposite shore of Scutari.

The Last Man 2003

Janizaries in the Turkish empire, -- their rise being generally out of obscurity, among the meanest and lowest of the people.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

They were to be a deliberately expatriated band of Janizaries, with an obligation only to the Commission and to the race, and welded together with a carefully nurtured esprit de corps.

The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966

Under the name of Sinam Pasha, he asserts that his father became first general of the Janizaries, then seraskier, or commander-in-chief of the whole

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous