Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.342
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.342
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1873.—"They (the English) . . . crave governors who, not having bound themselves beforehand to 'run amuck,' may give the land some chance of repose."—*Blackwood's Magazine*, June, p. 759.