grand vizier

At length one of them, Sheherazade, the generous daughter of the grand-vizier, succeeded in abolishing the cruel custom.

Who, then, but a woman could have routed the grand-vizier from the chess-board and taken his place?

I should like to see him well settled in this parish; he would be ready then to act as my grand-vizier when I wanted one.

To-day the harem is impenetrable, while “any one declining to stand as the grand-vizier passes is almost beaten to death.”