Altogether the Sultanship of a district in Ugogo must be very remunerative, besides being a delightful sinecure, so long as the Sultan has to deal with timid Arab merchants who fear to exhibit anything approaching to independence and self-reliance, lest they might be mulcted in cloth.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
There is a dory yonder; if your indolent Sultanship can bear the labor of steering, I'll give you a last row across the bay.
"A Terrible Secret"
May Agnes Fleming
These adventures augment my rapturous felicity; and if time and destiny have shorn me of the privilege of my Sultanship, which you say rendered me so proud and vain, I retain at all events the glory of being happy.
"French and Oriental Love in a Harem"
Mario Uchard