Did he ever state it to the Rajah, or did he call his vakeel before the Council to answer the charge? ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
I therefore called my vakeel, and threatened him with the gravest punishment on my return to Khartoum. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)
It was my perfume, right enough; I bowed acknowledgement while she smiled and settled herself, and the vakeel began to drone out her petition in formal Persian. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a few days Seringapatam would have been taken by storm, but Tippoo seeing his situation hopeless sent a _vakeel_ to sue for peace. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
I am to be taken for him, then it is plain that fate has made me his vakeel, his representative; and whatever I do so long as I remain in that character is lawful -- then his clothes are my clothes, his hundred tomauns are my hundred tomauns, and whatever I have written in his name is lawfully written. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
Besides himself he had brought another, who, he informed me, would act as my vakeel or trustee, such an intervention being necessary on the part of the man as well as the woman; and then he exhibited before me the _akdnameh_ or marriage deed, in which he had already inscribed the dower of my intended, consisting of her own property, and demanded from me what additions it was my intention to make thereto. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
That the womans vakeel having beforehand agreed upon the terms of the marriage, proceeded to ask the following question of the mans ❋ James Morier (N/A)
He directed me how to proceed, and informed me, in order to make the marriage lawful, that a vakeel, or trustee, must appear on the part of the woman, and another on that of the man. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
Early next morning a boat went with the vakeel down the coast to get cattle and bring them up here, for the question of provisioning the town, as well as the soldiers, is getting a very serious one. ❋ Unknown (1885)
This is what the vakeel told my husband, and it was corroborated by those present. ❋ Unknown (1885)
This proposal having been agreed to, the vakeel, a fat, jolly-looking ❋ Unknown (1885)
On arriving at the house, we saw a couple of these above-described Arabs, and also the vakeel or agent of ❋ Unknown (1885)
He, however, replied to the vakeel, and wrote also to a gentleman in the neighbourhood, desiring to have a strict inquiry instituted before he could venture to accept the riches of this lady's bounty, presuming that even if he was the person alluded to in her will, that the Begum must have intended him as her almoner to the poor of Lucknow. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)
Her vakeel (agent) wrote to Meer Syaad Mahumud very soon after the lady's death, to apprise him of the bequest Villoiettee Begum had willed to him, and at the same time forwarded the portable articles to him at Lucknow. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)
Raja is taking: he receives the paltriest gossip of the Nawab's court filtered through a lying vakeel. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)
