Word: india
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There for India shape our course...
July, 1774, Samuel Langdon, a devoted patriot and friend of John Hancock, was elected President, but his inauguration was omitted on account of the commotions of the period. The students were by no means unanimous in their patriotism, for history records that some of the Tories used to drink India tea in commons to show their loyalty, and that this occasioned some trouble among the students. After the battle of Lexington the militia began to concentrate at Cambridge, and the students were ordered to leave. Some of the buildings were turned into barracks for the soldiers, and the officers were...
...LEFT Brindisi one bright day in February for Alexandria, in the steamer Teheran, which plied between Venice and Bombay, touching at this point for the India mail from London. The first day out was rough, so that few passengers appeared, and our company at the dinner-table was small; but towards evening it began to clear off, and people who had kept their state-rooms all day began to show themselves on deck. A trip on an Indian steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew...
...least disagreeable to him, his religion prohibited it. There is only one religion in the world which prohibits smoking, and that is the Parsee. They are fire worshippers, and consider smoking a profane use of fire. And so it proved; he was a Parsee from India, and, except English, did not know a word of any other language in the world...
...where India's affluent river...