1878 April 11, Gilbert Kirker, “Notes on Adrianople and Constantinople”, in Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast: Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, →ISSN, page 103:
The chawush, or sergeant, who had charge of these executions, generally turned them to his profit:[…]
1908, Claude Delaval Cobham, Excerpta Cypria: materials for a history of Cyprus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 131:
[…] twelve chawushes were at once sent to isolate the Bailo of Venice and his staff, a chawush and some janissaries being left on guard to […]
1922, Richard Dehan, The just steward, London: W. Heinemann, published 1926, →OCLC, page 423:
A Turkish bimbashi of infantry, attended by a chawush, gravely pretends to inspect the French and British prisoners.
1873, Joseph Catafago, “Tipstaff”, in An English and Arabic dictionary in two parts: Arabic and English, and English and Arabic, 2nd edition, London: Quaritch, page 1037:
c.1630, Peter Mundy, “Itinerarium Mundii”, in Richard Carnac Temple, editor, The travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667, volume 1, Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, number 17, Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, published 1907, →OCLC, page 65:
The 22nd. May, 1620. Beinge two miles in our way from Sophia, wee were overtaken by a Chiawsh3 and twenty Jannizaries with nine waggons bound for Buda,[…] […] [editor's note] 3 Turkish chawush, now a days a minor military officer, a sergeant, but in Mundy's time a high official. Compare Gainsford, Glory of England, p. 201 f., "The Degrees of the Turks The fift roome is supplyed by the Chiaus, a degree of honourable eminence and may ranke with our Barons."
1881, Esme Gwendoline Grogan Stevenson Scott-Stevenson, Our ride through Asia Minor, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, page 152:
the chawush flatly refused to comply without a written order from the camaican.