Crossword-Solution: AGHAS 5 letters, 74 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They lodged in the aghas’ odd palaces, large white windowless farmhouses, where they found, pell-mell, narghilehs and mahogany furniture, Smyrna carpets and moderator lamps, cedar coffers full of Turkish sequins, and French statuette-decked clocks in the Louis Philippe style.

All the great Aghas and Caïds of the south would be there, and as Nevill knew many of them, he might be able to get definite information concerning Ben Halim.

Behind the chatting Europeans stood many Arab chiefs of different degree, bach aghas, aghas, caïds and adels, looking on silently, or talking together in low voices; and compared with these stately, dark men in their magnificent costumes blazing with jewels and medals, the smartest French officers were reduced to insignificance.

The soil is fertile, and the people own the land themselves,--not the Turkish Aghas, as is the case in many other parts of the country,--so that it must be mere thriftlessness, rather than any stern necessity, which makes them so destitute.

All the Kurdish Aghas thereabouts kept close watch over him, hating him because he was their rival in the supremacy of the place.