Use india in a sentence
Sentences starting with india
- India is one vast farm--one almost interminable stretch of fields with mud fences between. [5]
- India had the start of the whole world in the beginning of things. [5]
- India was full of clever men with the highwayman instinct, and so, quite naturally, the brotherhood of the Thugs came into being to meet the long-felt want. [5]
- India has many names, and they are correctly descriptive. [5]
- India had eighty languages, and more custom-houses than cats. [5]
- India in especial is the home of forgery. [5]
- India seems to have originated everything. [5]
- India is a hard country to understand. [5]
- India had 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. [5]
- India swarms with deadly snakes. [5]
Sentences ending with india
- In fact, he would not know by the thermometer that he was not in the blistering Plains of India. [5]
- Why, our headquarters would be in Constantinople and our hindquarters in Further India! [5]
- Thus, she corresponded with a friend of her mother's in India. [6]
- And thence we went to Mr. Premchand Roychand's bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India. [5]
- In his own way he found out that the man had been a soldier in the ranks, and that he had served in India. [11]
- I might have thought it only a freak of my fancy, but there by the fireplace sat a stout, red-faced, puffy-looking man, in the ordinary dress of an English gentleman, whom I had no difficulty in recognizing as my uncle from India. [4]
- And then and there we made it all up, in a manner too particular for me to mention; and I never, to this day, heard Polly allude to My Uncle in India. [4]
- But this was the land of the Arabian Nights, this was India! [5]
- She also said that she had written to me twice after we parted at Lachine, but had never heard a word, and three years afterwards she had gone to India. [11]
- We were all rich and in splendor, and our uncle had come from India. [4]
Short sentences using india
- This is indeed India! [5]
- Take India as an illustration. [4]
Sentences containing india two or more times
- Anyone who bets that in India, in any three consecutive years the snakes will kill 49,500 persons, will win his bet; and anyone who bets that in India in any three consecutive years, the snakes will kill 53,500 persons, will lose his bet. [5]
- He had lived in India for twenty years: long enough to be cynical of justice at the Horse Guards or at the India Office: to become in fact bitter against London, S.W., altogether. [11]
- A cable had been previously laid from Port Darwin to Java and thence to India, and there was telegraphic communication with England from India. [5]
More example sentences with the word india in them
- One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
- Here is the world of the press and of letters; here are institutions, an army, a navy, commerce, glimpses of great ships going to and fro on distant seas, of India, of Australia. [4]
- A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
- We struck out westward or northwestward from Calcutta on an itinerary of a zig-zag sort, which would in the course of time carry us across India to its northwestern corner and the border of Afghanistan. [5]
- Indeed, if monuments were always given in India for high achievements, duty straitly performed, and smirchless records, the landscape would be monotonous with them. [5]
- In Bombay I was told by an American missionary that in India there are 640 Protestant missionaries at work. [5]
- That old-time Tammany was the East India Company's government, and had its headquarters at Calcutta. [5]
- At his mercy was the daily bread of every official, every trader, every clerk, every civil servant, big and little, in the whole huge India Company's machine, and the man who hazarded his bread by any failure of subserviency to the boss lost it. [5]
- Even when I was laid up 10 days at Jeypore in India we had the charmingest times with English friends. [5]
- To Major Sleeman was given the general superintendence of the giant task of ridding India of Thuggee, and he and his seventeen assistants accomplished it. [5]
- The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up. [5]
- This largely depends upon English prestige in the Orient, and to lose India is to lose the grip. [4]
- I was full up of life in London town and India, and that's a fact. [11]
- Apparently, in every town and city in India the gentlemen of the British civil and military service have a club; sometimes it is a palatial one, always it is pleasant and homelike. [5]
- In India the tourist's servant does not sleep in a room in the hotel, but rolls himself up head and ears in his blanket and stretches himself on the veranda, across the front of his master's door, and spends the night there. [5]
- A British officer told me that in India he paid his servant 10 rupees a month, and he had 11 cousins, uncles, parents, etc., dependent upon him, and he supported them on his wages. [5]
- When I got to Victoria I wired for money and sailed to Japan; and then I went on to India and through the Suez, taking things easy. [9]
- Again, India offers to the young and the adventurous a career, military, civil, or commercial. [4]
- Yesterday I went to the city to see a shipowner whose acquaintance I made when he was a master in the West India trade. [9]
- Thuggee became known to the British authorities in India about 1810, but its wide prevalence was not suspected; it was not regarded as a serious matter, and no systematic measures were taken for its suppression until about 1830. [5]
- There was nothing to oppose their mass, nothing but a few weak battalions of British soldiers scattered about India, a force not worth speaking of. [5]
- Yet India invented Thuggery and the Suttee. [5]
- I speak of those of Australasia and India, for I had access to those only. [5]
- All India flocks thither on pilgrimage, and pours its savings into the pockets of the priests in a generous stream, which never fails. [5]
- But to offset this average deficit the very profitable trade of India, which is mostly in British hands, swells the national wealth; and this trade would not be so largely in British hands if the flag were away. [4]
- Apparently, in India, the poor bankrupt themselves daily for their religion. [5]
- But in India the people are civilized, and these things will not happen. [5]
- Ten days before the outbreak (May 10th) of the Mutiny, all was serene at Lucknow, the huge capital of Oudh, the kingdom which had recently been seized by the India Company. [5]
- He was serving the Nepal Government in a high capacity at the Court of the Viceroy of India, twenty years ago. [5]
- The adventurers on the James hoped they could follow the stream to highlands that looked off upon the South Sea, a new route to India and the Spice Islands. [4]
- I had inspected the goods brought from Arabia and India by way of Berenice and Coptos, and had selected those I needed before the vessel that brought them had moored in the Mariotic harbor, and other goods will have reached Alexandria before me. [10]
- All over India the English well, you will never know how good and fine they are till you see them. [5]
- Anyone who bets that the tiger will kill 2,400 people in India in any three consecutive years has invested his money in a certainty; anyone who bets that he will kill 2,600 in any three consecutive years, is absolutely sure to lose. [5]
- We were told that the explanation of this was, that this Jain delegation was drawn from many parts of India, and that each man wore the turban that was in vogue in his own region. [5]
- You soon realize that India is not beautiful; still there is an enchantment about it that is beguiling, and which does not pall. [5]
- What India lost that hour by the Bengalese the Sikhs won back. [11]
- Has Miss Sullivan taught her by the methods of India and the American public school? [5]
- These two details, taken in connection with the fact that for his extraordinary offense the only punishment he got from the East India Company's Government was a solemn official "reprimand"--suggest the suspicion that he was a European of consequence. [5]
- I published that story, and it became widely known in America, India, China, England--and the reputation it made for me has paid me thousands and thousands of dollars since. [5]
- The cow is so sacred in India that to kill her keeper is an awful sacrilege, and even the Thugs recognized this; yet now and then the lust for blood was too strong, and so they did kill a few cow-keepers. [5]
- In India the snakes kill 17,000 people a year; they hardly ever fall short of it; they as seldom exceed it. [5]
- Suffice it to say that we sailed for a fortnight or so in the West India seas. [9]
- Also that other rumor that English nobility acquired an added stench the other day--and had to ship it to India and the continent because there wasn't any more room for it at home? [5]
- Some of our readers may have seen, in India, a cloud of crows pecking a sick vulture to death--no bad type of what happens in that country as often as fortune deserts one who has been great and dreaded. [5]
- The evidence gathered proved the truth of what Feringhea had said, and also revealed the fact that gangs of Thugs were plying their trade all over India. [5]
- It had won prizes in dog shows, both in India and in England--I saw them. [5]
- I wish, said Polly, "that my uncle in India would send me a camel's-hair shawl, or a string of pearls, each as big as the end of my thumb. [4]
- He becomes a personification, and stands for India in trouble. [5]
- To get to paradise from India is an expensive thing. [5]
- I have been overlooking the fact that India is by an unapproachable supremacy--the Land of Murderous Wild Creatures. [5]
- She had come out to India to make a temporary stay, but was extending it indefinitely; indeed, she was purposing to end her days there. [5]
- In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. [5]
- The man who originated public gas-lighting, and that other benefactor who introduced the cultivation of the potato and thus blessed millions of his starving countrymen, lie with the Prince of Masserano, and with exiled queens and princes of Further India. [5]
- This is indeed one of the oldest of the princedoms of India, and has always been celebrated for its barbaric pomps and splendors, and for the wealth of its princes. [5]
- In his government on the Nerbudda he made a brave attempt on the 28th of March, 1828, to put down Suttee on his own hook and without warrant from the Supreme Government of India. [5]
- Just that sort of youth is liable to turn up some day in India or somewhere and do a mighty plucky thing, and become a hero. [4]
- White marble relief-portraits of him are sold all about India. [5]
- In India their number is beyond estimate, and their noise is in proportion. [5]
- Take away India now, and you cut off the career of hundreds of thousands of young Englishmen, and the hope of tens of thousands of households. [4]
- And India did not wait for morning, it began at the hotel --straight away. [5]
- But this is not the only value of India. [4]
- But it is not an overstock, for they have all India as a prey. [5]
- Having small expectations myself, and having wedded Polly when they were smaller, I have come to feel the full force, the crushing weight, of her lightest remark about "My Uncle in India. [4]
- The portraits of myself and uncle and nephew are very good indeed, and your impressionist reproduction of the palace of the Governor General of India is accurate and full of tender feeling. [5]
- One of the most striking of the stories told was furnished by a gentleman who had served on the staff of the Viceroy of India. [5]
- Early in the morning she must find among her feathered favourites a pair of rare India fowls, which he had received from Venice. [10]
- This appears the more probable, as the elephants in India which live on elevated and cool districts are more hairy (87. [1]
- A few highly modified feathers may merely be added during the spring to the plumage, as occurs with the disc-formed tail-feathers of certain drongos (Bhringa) in India, and with the elongated feathers on the back, neck, and crest of certain herons. [1]
- He was made Medical Superintendent General, and transferred to India. [5]
- Dr. Hooker informs me that an elephant, which he was riding in India, became so deeply bogged that he remained stuck fast until the next day, when he was extricated by men with ropes. [1]
- He first tripped me on the training of naval cadets; then on the Crimea; then on the taking of Quebec; then on the Franco-Prussian War; then, with a sudden round-up, on India. [11]
- I cared to look at her as one would dwell on the sleek beauty of a deer--as, indeed, I have many a time since then, in India, watched a tigress asleep on her chain, claws hidden, wild life latent but slumbering. [11]
- How I did loathe that journey around the world!--except the sea-part and India. [5]
- By these, I know that in India the tiger kills something over 800 persons every year, and that the government responds by killing about double as many tigers every year. [5]
- They not only knew the Continent very well, but they had spent a winter in Egypt, lived a year in India, and seen something of China and much of Japan. [4]
- We were of Kipling's "hosts of tourists who travel up and down India in the cold weather showing how things ought to be managed. [5]
- A comfortable railway journey of seventeen and a half hours brought us to the capital of India, which is likewise the capital of Bengal--Calcutta. [5]
- He had learned it so that, with his insatiable curiosity, his archaeological instinct, he should be able to compare it with the Nautch dance of India, the Hula-Hula of the Sandwich Islanders, the Siva of the Samoans. [11]
- They had chanted it in ancient India, and now it was heard again in the New World and the New Republic of Peace and Good Will. [9]
- They would carry it far and wide in India and sell it. [5]
- Grasp on India is part of the vast Oriental network of English trade and commerce, the carrying trade, the supply of cotton and iron goods. [4]
- That was in India, where I learned to speak English; and here am I at the door of a Palace again! [11]
- The cities of India are full of cripples it has made. [6]
- Elsewhere famines are inconsequential incidents--in India they are devastating cataclysms; in one case they annihilate hundreds; in the other, millions. [5]
- The Brices were in the India trade, and they had money enough to buy the whole of St. [9]
- One could wander in it from Pompeii to Japan, from India to Versailles, from Greece to the England of the Tudors, from the Alhambra to colonial Salem. [4]
- They have doors in India, but I don't know why. [5]
- This Tammany was in India, and it began its career with the spread of the English dominion after the Battle of Plassey. [5]
- Hall was born in India, and had lived there most of his life. [11]
- The tamed elephants in India are well known to break off branches of trees and use them to drive away the flies; and this same act has been observed in an elephant in a state of nature. [1]
- I believe that in India "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. [5]
- I knew him in Egypt three hundred years ago; I knew him in India five hundred years ago--he is always blethering around in my way, everywhere I go; he makes me tired. [5]
- Captain Vallancey, writing in a Madras journal in those old times, makes this remark: "The day that sees this far-spread evil eradicated from India and known only in name, will greatly tend to immortalize British rule in the East. [5]
- So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his round. [5]
- She had made him a knight of the order of the Star of India. [5]
- During three days he stumped about the ship with his ankle bare and swollen, and this legend gleaming red and angry out from a clouding of India ink: 'Virtue is its own R'd. [5]
- During three days he stumped about the ship with his ankle bare and swollen, and this legend gleaming red and angry out from a clouding of India ink: "Virtue is its own R'd. [5]
- Speaking of noise, he certainly was the noisest little devil in India --and that is saying much, very much, indeed. [5]
- Then by request he agreed to betray his friend and pal, Buhram, a Thug with the most tremendous record in India. [5]
- Whereupon the Captain hastily ripped open the bundle under his arm and produced a very handsome India shawl. [9]
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