Hinduism

in a sentence

The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.  (source) Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894

baboo, babu, n. A Hindu title of respect paid to gentlemen, equivalent to master, sir.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

It seemed to me that before Pakistan there was endless fighting between Hindus and Muslims.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

I tried to keep my eyes glued to the snowcapped Hindu Kush on the north side, but each time my stomach settled even a bit, the truck skidded around yet another turn, rousing a fresh wave of nausea.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

The Nazis took the swastika from the Hindus, the Christians adopted the cruciform from the Egyptians, the—†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

"Next year, assuming my lungs hold out, we'll study Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism together—" The Old Man coughed and then started to laugh, which caused him to cough again.†  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

They sang not even to the God who confronted them, but to a saint; they did not one thing which the nonHindu would feel dramatically correct; this approaching triumph of India was a muddle (as we call it), a frustration of reason and form.†  (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

The summer before last her father had hired an Indian driver—a Hindu, he had called him—to take them to Yosemite and they had stayed at the Ahwahnee Hotel for a week.†  (source) Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine, 2002

When the bodies were finally collected, they were burned in tall pyres like Hindus on the Ganges.†  (source) Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life, 2002

A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

Many of them had Hindu mothers and Hindu concubines who taught them to kill Sikhs.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

Six hundred million Hindus stay home from work if the signs are not favorable that morning.†  (source) Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985

Both of the two great Oriental religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, are Indo-European in origin.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991