maharanees

"We're going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a dove, and a white and green house filled with books and silver tea-sets."

Main Street 1920

"We're going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a dove, and a white and green house filled with books and silver tea-sets."

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

Mr Basdeo Panday saw the UNC as his own personal fiefdom and was accustomed to all the maharanees walking behind him.

Stabroek News Stabroek staff 2010

Mr Basdeo Panday saw the UNC as his own personal fiefdom and was accustomed to all the maharanees walking behind him.

Stabroek News Stabroek staff 2010

I’m not sure he ever got around to telling us about Tibet, but the tales of Indian maharanees who wanted to marry him; Franklin Roosevelt, a friend and neighbor near Hyde Park in New York; Lawrence of Arabia; and kings and queens he knew were marvelous.

Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

I’m not sure he ever got around to telling us about Tibet, but the tales of Indian maharanees who wanted to marry him; Franklin Roosevelt, a friend and neighbor near Hyde Park in New York; Lawrence of Arabia; and kings and queens he knew were marvelous.

Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

“We’re going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a dove, and a white and green house filled with books and silver tea-sets.”

Main Street 2004

On the train east, the boy asks where they are going and Carol says, "We're going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a dove…

The Romance of Sinclair Lewis Vidal, Gore 1992