Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.13
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.13
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1802.—“I suffered a very large library to be useless whence I might have extracted that which would have been of more service to me than running about to **Tiffins** and noisy parties.”—*Metcalfe*, to J. W. Sherer, in Kaye, *Life of Lord Metcalfe*, I. 81.