Indostan

Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

It is divided into three parts, viz. Indostan, or the Empire of the Great Mogul; India on this side the

A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

Is there nothing else than the disputing, loud and long, of the six blind men of Indostan who went to _see_ the Indian elephant and returned,

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Robert Orme (1728-1801), _History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk’s shoulders, best knows; but it would have suited a Brahmin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan, I had reverenced it.

3. The Monk. Calais 1917

The wealth of ancient Egypt, that of China and Indostan, sufficiently demonstrate that a nation may attain a very high degree of opulence, though the greater part of its exportation trade be carried on by foreigners.

I. Book III. Of the Natural Progress of Opulence 1909

In 1497, Vasco de Gama sailed from the port of Lisbon with a fleet of four ships, and, after a navigation of eleven months, arrived upon the coast of Indostan, and thus completed a course of discoveries which had been pursued with great steadiness, and with very little interruption, for near a century together.

VII. Book IV. Of Colonies 1909

Instead of the wealth, cultivation and populousness of China and Indostan, he found, in St. Domingo, and in all the other parts of the new world which he ever visited, nothing but a country quite covered with wood, uncultivated, and inhabited only by some tribes of naked and miserable savages.

VII. Book IV. Of Colonies 1909

This is said to be a common practice in Turkey, in Indostan, and, I believe, in most other governments of Asia.

I. Book II. Of the Division of Stock 1909