A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History, Volume 1C.K. Paul & Company, 1878 - Queens |
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Abbas Khan Abyssinian Ahmed Ahmednugger arms art thou asked bastion beautiful Beejapoor Beydur blessing brother Canarese cataract child Church cried death Dekhan Dervish Doña Maria Elias Khan eunuchs eyes Eyn-ool-Moolk face fear Francis d'Almeida friends girl Goolab Goolab-bee grim rocks hand hath head hear heard heart Hindoo holy honour horse Huzrut Hyat Khan Johur Juldroog Khan's King knew Krishna river lady live looked lord Mahomed Kasim Ferishta Máma Luteefa matchlocks Meeah Moodgul Moolla mosque mother muslin Mussulman Nawab never night noble noble Khan Osman Beg Padré palace pán panther passed priest Queen Chand ravine replied returned river rocks rose round Royal Runga Naik safe Sahib scarf seemed sent sherbet sister sleep speak sword Syud tell thee thou art thou hast thou wilt thought to-morrow told voice watch wound Yacoot young Khan Zóra Zóra's
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Page 236 - England; a woman who, surrounded by jealous enemies, preserved by her own personal valour and endurance her kingdom from destruction and partition; who through all temptations and exercise of absolute power, was at once simple, generous, frank, and merciful as she was chaste, virtuous, religious, and charitable — one who, among all the women of India, stands out as a jewel without flaw and beyond price.
Page 44 - ... from England or from India, will land at Rangoon, and it will therefore be convenient first to describe the principal objects of interest in that city, and then to mention a few of the principal tours which can be made thence to other parts of the province. RANGOON * is the capital of the province, and the seat of the local government.
Page 82 - April, river Krishna, in the course of ages, in which the great cataract had been formed, had cut its way through a range of rocky hills which continued northwards and southwards from the brink of the ravine, through which its waters flowed. Throughout the ravine, which was about three-quarters of a mile long, its sides were formed of rugged and precipitous rocks, amongpt which there was enough foliage to redeem them from entire savageness.
Page 83 - ... threading through the rocks in their white streams, and disclosing the whole of the wonderful construction of the fall, huge masses of granite rocks crossed by veins and dykes of basalt. From the crest of the cataract to the pool beneath, the measure by level of the descent is four hundred and eight feet in about a quarter of a mile ; and, as I have before attempted to describe, the fury of the descending mass of water when the wide river is in flood, is majestic and wonderful in the extreme...
Page 235 - Beejapoor army then in the field, and returned with it, though with no authority, to the capital, there, as she trusted, to end her days in peace. She was received by the people with their former enthusiasm, and by the young King with no diminution of his old affection ; but she took no part in public affairs, which, under the young King, were very prosperous. At Ahmednugger other revolutions followed with which this tale has no concern.
Page 233 - I have detailed were crowded into the space of four years, and as the King was approaching the age at which his majority could be declared, the Queen hoped that with it the rest and peace she so intensely longed for would come to her. But there was still more to be done. Not at Beejapoor, but in her native city, Ahmednugger.
Page 234 - Ahmednugger cavalry. She had hoped to find peace in her old home ; but she found that home more convulsed with faction, and more distracted within and without, than when she had left it. Her brother...