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At Udaipur he is called bhanjgarh ; at Jodhpur, pardhan ; at Jaipur (where they have engrafted the term used at the court of Delhi) musahib ; at Kotah, kiladar , and diwan or regent.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod
His charter outfit, which works out of that hangar off to the side of the majors at Kennedy, keeps a Lear that can make the Caribbean in one hop if it's not too full.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover
These words about Coleridge recall to the students of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s work a splendid illustration of the true wonder of the great poetic temper which he gives in the before-mentioned essay on The Renascence of p. 20 Wonder in Chambers’s ‘Cyclopædia of English Literature’:— “Coleridge’s ‘Christabel,’ ‘The Ancient Mariner,’ and ‘Kubla Khan’ are, as regards the romantic spirit, above—and far above—any work of any other English poet.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas
He was a monster, a king kangaroo; and as he raised himself to his full height on his toes and tail he looked formidable—a grand and majestic demon of the bush.
— from On Our Selection by Steele Rudd
For the moment, as Kennedy, Karatoff, and Gaines bent over him and endeavored to loosen his collar and apply a restorative, consternation reigned in the little circle.
— from The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
The rest of us, though we may feel no call to denounce Coleridge for these proceedings, may surely hold that "The Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan" are no defence to the particular charges.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
The words subjective, objective and attributive, are therefore mere human inventions, and so are the words thinker, thinking and the thought ([Sanskrit: mantri, mati, mantavya],) and knower, knowing and knowledge ([Sanskrit: víha, vuhvi, víhavya]), and the ego, egoism and egotist ([Sanskrit: ahamkára, ahamkarttá, ahamkáryya]) all which refer to the same individual soul).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki
Effective cotton printing is carried on by very primitive methods at Kot Kamália and Lahore.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir
These masses, as Karl Kautsky, an observer from the Marxist Camp, has said, “were concerned merely with their requirements and their desires as soon as they were drawn into the Revolution, and they did not care a straw whether their demands were practicable or beneficial to society.” Had the Soviet endeavoured to resist with any firmness or determination whatsoever the pressure of the masses, it would have run the risk of being swept away.
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin
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