Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15984
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15984
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c10.15984
“Within the Zenana, no longer would they
In a starving condition impatiently stay,
But break out of prison, and all run
away.”—*Simpkin the Second*, 42.