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  • Every fourteen-year-old should know the exact location of Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Four carloads of galvanized zinc from Flint must be flown to the smelters in Damascus by noon of the eighteenth, terms F.O.B. Calcutta two per cent ten days E.O.M. One Messerschmitt full of hemp is due in Belgrade for a C-47 and a half full of those semi-pitted dates we stuck them with from Khartoum.†   (source)
  • Anand Ghoshe, a Bengali from Calcutta, had been posted to Madras by the Indian Railways.†   (source)
  • "Why don't you turn Fowlson into a giant bullfrog or wish him deep into the jungles of Calcutta?"†   (source)
  • Moulmein, Tokyo, Calcutta …†   (source)
  • Ramakrishna: "That's the way with you Calcutta people: you want to teach and preach.†   (source)
  • JAMIE Can't expect us to live in the Black Hole of Calcutta.†   (source)
  • They had evidently met somewhere between Bombay and Calcutta; but where?   (source)
    Calcutta = Old name (prior to 2001) for Kolkata; most influential city in East India; known for severe poverty, political activism, and cultural influence
  • But how is it I have not seen you on board since we left Calcutta?   (source)
  • This is the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in time.   (source)
  • He had resolved to follow the supposed robber to Calcutta, and farther, if necessary.   (source)
  • "Yet you sell tickets from Bombay to Calcutta," retorted Sir Francis, who was growing warm.   (source)
  • A steamer leaves Calcutta for Hong Kong at noon, on the 25th.   (source)
  • Calcutta was reached at seven in the morning, and the packet left for Hong Kong at noon; so that Phileas Fogg had five hours before him.   (source)
  • Fix's disappointment when he learned that Phileas Fogg had not made his appearance in Calcutta may be imagined.   (source)
  • The confusion of master and man, who had quite forgotten the affair at Bombay, for which they were now detained at Calcutta, may be imagined.   (source)
  • According to his journal, he was due at Calcutta on the 25th of October, and that was the exact date of his actual arrival.   (source)
  • I have failed at Bombay, and I have failed at Calcutta; if I fail at Hong Kong, my reputation is lost: Cost what it may, I must succeed!   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg would thus be able to arrive in time to take the steamer which left Calcutta the next day, October 25th, at noon, for Hong Kong.   (source)
  • From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ….   (source)
  • These fanatics were scattered throughout the county, and would, despite the English police, recover their victim at Madras, Bombay, or Calcutta.   (source)
  • The passengers of the Mongolia went ashore at half-past four p.m.; at exactly eight the train would start for Calcutta.   (source)
  • Fix rubbed his hands softly with satisfaction; if Phileas Fogg could be detained in Calcutta a week, it would be more than time for the warrant to arrive.   (source)
  • The distance between Bombay and Calcutta, as the bird flies, is only from one thousand to eleven hundred miles; but the deflections of the road increase this distance by more than a third.   (source)
  • The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula.   (source)
  • Knowing that the English authorities dealt very severely with this kind of misdemeanour, he promised them a goodly sum in damages, and sent them forward to Calcutta by the next train.   (source)
  • However, the trip from Calcutta to Hong Kong only comprised some three thousand five hundred miles, occupying from ten to twelve days, and the young woman was not difficult to please.   (source)
  • The station at Allahabad was reached about ten o'clock, and, the interrupted line of railway being resumed, would enable them to reach Calcutta in less than twenty-four hours.   (source)
  • Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of the court-room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.   (source)
  • He had managed to embark on the Rangoon at Calcutta without being seen by Passepartout, after leaving orders that, if the warrant should arrive, it should be forwarded to him at Hong Kong; and he hoped to conceal his presence to the end of the voyage.   (source)
  • Passepartout, however, had no sooner heard his master's orders on leaving the Mongolia than he saw at once that they were to leave Bombay as they had done Suez and Paris, and that the journey would be extended at least as far as Calcutta, and perhaps beyond that place.   (source)
  • But, though he was only half-way by the difference of meridians, he had really gone over two-thirds of the whole journey; for he had been obliged to make long circuits from London to Aden, from Aden to Bombay, from Calcutta to Singapore, and from Singapore to Yokohama.   (source)
  • The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.   (source)
  • Passepartout thereupon recounted Aouda's history, the affair at the Bombay pagoda, the purchase of the elephant for two thousand pounds, the rescue, the arrest, and sentence of the Calcutta court, and the restoration of Mr. Fogg and himself to liberty on bail.   (source)
  • These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London—from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.   (source)
  • …Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.   (source)
  • Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.   (source)
  • But Ruth expresses interest, asking about his visits to Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Pappachi agreed to let her spend the summer with a distant aunt who lived in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • In Calcutta, before she was married, she was working toward a college degree.†   (source)
  • Then she'd go to Calcutta and fetch Estha, and he could have his comic.†   (source)
  • The trip to Calcutta is four months away.†   (source)
  • All those trips to Calcutta he'd once resented —how could they have been enough?†   (source)
  • They fly first to London, and then to Calcutta via Dubai.†   (source)
  • Upon returning to Calcutta, Gogol and Sonia both get terribly ill.†   (source)
  • They have never known a person who has been to Calcutta.†   (source)
  • She cries after the mailman's visit because there are no letters from Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Like Ashoke, the bachelors fly back to Calcutta one by one, returning with wives.†   (source)
  • But bad luck trails them on the trip back to Calcutta.†   (source)
  • But this time it frustrates him that it is to Calcutta that they always go.†   (source)
  • It will be Gogol and Sonia's first journey outside of Calcutta, their first time on an Indian train.†   (source)
  • He was transferred to Calcutta Medical College, where two screws were put into his hips.†   (source)
  • "I want to go to Calcutta," Maxine says, as if this has been a thing denied to her all her life.†   (source)
  • The accident occurred 209 kilometers from Calcutta, between the Ghatshila and Dhalbumgarh stations.†   (source)
  • They all come from Calcutta, and for this reason alone they are friends.†   (source)
  • Calcutta's in the east, closer to Thailand.†   (source)
  • Apart from visiting relatives there was nothing to do in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • But the nearest one is in Delhi, over eight hundred miles from Calcutta.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't do to go around without the faintest clue of where Calcutta was.†   (source)
  • The funeral brought Europeans and Indians from as far away as Bombay and Calcutta to pay tribute.†   (source)
  • Thus traffickers instead began shipping young flesh to Kolkata, where they could get a better price.†   (source)
  • But I hated everything else about being in Kolkata.†   (source)
  • Sonagachi, which means "golden tree," is a sprawling red-light district in Kolkata.†   (source)
  • No. Calcutta.†   (source)
  • These trees were without a doubt the gates into a meerkat arboreal city with more bustle in it than Calcutta.†   (source)
  • It's a closely held secret among Indian zookeepers that in 1971 Bara the polar bear escaped from the Calcutta Zoo.†   (source)
  • " "There may very well be feral giraffes and feral hippos living in Tokyo and a polar bear living freely in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Ammu had an elaborate Calcutta wedding.†   (source)
  • First class, overnight on the Madras Mail to Madras and then with a friend of their father's from Madras to Calcutta.†   (source)
  • His family were once-wealthy zamindars who had migrated to Calcutta from East Bengal after Partition.†   (source)
  • After Sophie Mors funeral, when Estha was Returned, their father sent him to a boys' school in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Ammu was made to send him back to their father, who had by then resigned his lonely tea-estate job in Assam and moved to Calcutta to work for a company that made carbon black.†   (source)
  • Ashoke and Ashima are planning their first trip to Calcutta, in December, during Ashoke's winter break.†   (source)
  • The sight of them when they visit Calcutta every few years feels stranger still, six or eight weeks passing like a dream.†   (source)
  • He had agreed to fly with her and her parents to Calcutta, to meet her extended family and ask for her grandparents' blessing.†   (source)
  • + + The following year Ashoke is up for a sabbatical, and Gogol and Sonia are informed that they will all be going to Calcutta for eight months.†   (source)
  • His parents tell him that they each have two names, too, as do all their Bengali friends in America, and all their relatives in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • No matter how many times they'd been to Calcutta, his father was always anxious about the job of transporting the four of them such a great distance.†   (source)
  • Gogol is dressed as an infant Bengali groom, in a pale yellow pajamapunjabi from his grandmother in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Calcutta was no worse, they had said.†   (source)
  • He remembers the astonishment of seeing pages full of Gangulis, three columns to a page, in the Calcutta telephone directory.†   (source)
  • For Ashima, migrating to the suburbs feels more drastic, more distressing than the move from Calcutta to Cambridge had been.†   (source)
  • There had been the same frequent trips to Calcutta, being plucked out of their American lives for months at a time.†   (source)
  • There was the disappearance of the name Gogol's great-grandmother had chosen for him, lost in the mail somewhere between Calcutta and Cambridge.†   (source)
  • During summer visits to Calcutta, strange men mysteriously appeared in the sitting room of her grandparents' flat.†   (source)
  • They are ushered into waiting taxis and down VIP Road, past a colossal landfill and into the heart of North Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Like his parents when they went to Calcutta, he could have had an alternative identity, a B-side to the self.†   (source)
  • But for the first time in her life, Ashima has no desire to escape to Calcutta, not now She refuses to be so far from the place where her husband made his life, the country in which he died.†   (source)
  • He was traveling on the 83 Up Howrah—Ranchi Express to visit his grandparents for the holidays; they had moved from Calcutta to Jamshedpur upon his grandfather's retirement from the university.†   (source)
  • She has learned to do things on her own, and though she still wears saris, still puts her long hair in a bun, she is not the same Ashima who had once lived in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • He cannot thank the book; the book has perished, as he nearly did, in scattered pieces, in the earliest hours of an October day, in a field 209 kilometers from Calcutta.†   (source)
  • In Calcutta, Ashima will live with her younger brother, Rana, and his wife, and their two grown, as yet unmarried daughters, in a spacious flat in Salt Lake.†   (source)
  • The following evening they board a Pan Am flight to London, where after a five-hour layover they will board a second flight to Calcutta, via Tehran and Bombay.†   (source)
  • The wedding will be in Calcutta, a little over a year from now, on an auspicious January day, just as she and her husband were married nearly thirty-four years ago.†   (source)
  • There is a pen-and-ink drawing on page eleven by her father, an illustrator for the magazine: a view of the North Calcutta skyline sketched from the roof of their flat one foggy January morning.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the afternoon she is furious with herself, humiliated at the prospect of arriving in Calcutta empty-handed apart from the sweaters and the paintbrushes.†   (source)
  • His paternal grandfather, a former professor of European literature at Calcutta University, had read from them aloud in English translations when Ashoke was a boy.†   (source)
  • He reads about U.S. planes bombing Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, Naxalites being murdered on the streets of Calcutta, India and Pakistan going to war.†   (source)
  • In Gogol's opinion, eight months in Calcutta is practically like moving there, a possibility that, until now, has never even remotely crossed his mind.†   (source)
  • Because neither set of grandparents has a working telephone, their only link to home is by telegram, which Ashoke has sent to both sides in Calcutta: "With your blessings, boy and mother fine."†   (source)
  • It is here that his twenty-seventh birthday is celebrated, the first birthday in his life that he hasn't spent with his own parents, either in Calcutta or on Pemberton Road.†   (source)
  • Instead they were overwhelming, disorienting expeditions, either going to Calcutta, or sightseeing in places they did not belong to and intended never to see again.†   (source)
  • A few weeks before the wedding, they were out to dinner with friends, getting happily drunk, and she heard Graham talking about their time in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • But she had not understood being excluded from the family's plans to travel to Calcutta that summer to see their relatives and scatter Ashoke's ashes in the Ganges.†   (source)
  • The tip of her thumb strikes each rung of the brown ladders etched onto the backs of her fingers, then stops at the middle of the third: it is nine and a half hours ahead in Calcutta, already evening, half past eight.†   (source)
  • As for his last name, Ganguli, by the time he is ten he has been to Calcutta three more times, twice in summer and once during Durga pujo, and from the most recent trip he still remembers the sight of it etched respectably into the whitewashed exterior of his paternal grandparents' house.†   (source)
  • But they were allowed out of the car only once they got to Lexington Avenue, to eat lunch at an Indian restaurant and then to buy Indian groceries, and polyester saris and 220-volt appliances to give to relatives in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • North Calcutta versus South.†   (source)
  • He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread.†   (source)
  • In spite of his parents' excitement, there was always a solemnity accompanying these preparations, Ashima and Ashoke at once apprehensive and eager, steeling themselves to find fewer faces at the airport in Calcutta, to confront the deaths of relatives since the last time they were there.†   (source)
  • She had come back to the apartment and written into the book's blank blue pages her parents' address in Calcutta, on Amherst Street, and then her in-laws' in Alipore, and finally her own, the apartment in Central Square, so that she would remember it.†   (source)
  • Their departure reminds Gogol of his family's preparations for Calcutta every few years, when the living room would be crowded with suitcases that his parents packed and repacked, fitting in as many gifts as possible for their relatives.†   (source)
  • In Calcutta the burning ghats are the most forbidden of places, she tells Gogol, and though she tries her best not to, though she was here, not there, both times it happened, she sees her parents' bodies, swallowed by flames.†   (source)
  • On the endpapers of all these books are phone numbers corresponding to no one, and the 800 numbers of all the airlines they've flown back and forth to Calcutta, and reservation numbers, and her ballpoint doodles as she was kept on hold.†   (source)
  • Ashima has been consuming this concoction throughout her pregnancy, a humble approximation of the snack sold for pennies on Calcutta sidewalks and on railway platforms throughout India, spilling from newspaper cones.†   (source)
  • In Bengali class they read from hand-sewn primers brought back by their teacher from Calcutta, intended for five-year-olds, printed, Gogol can't help noticing, on paper that resembles the folded toilet paper he uses at school.†   (source)
  • He would have preferred The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or even another copy of The Hobbit to replace the one he lost last summer in Calcutta, left on the rooftop of his father's house in Alipore and snatched away by crows.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, if she is feeling energetic, she asks Gogol to go and get a photo album, and together they look at pictures of Gogol's grandparents, and his uncles and aunts and cousins, of whom, in spite of his one visit to Calcutta, he has no memory.†   (source)
  • He was a freshman in high school, thin and glum, Sonia just a girl, his mother in a salwar kameeze, something she was too shy to wear in front of their relatives in Calcutta, who always expected her to be in a sari.†   (source)
  • They sit at the head table in the center of the room, with his mother and Sonia, her parents and a handful of her relatives visiting from Calcutta, and her brother, Samrat, who is missing out on his orientation at the University of Chicago in order to attend the wedding.†   (source)
  • Glancing at the floor where visitors customarily removed their slippers, she noticed, beside two sets of chappals, a pair of men's shoes that were not like any she'd ever seen on the streets and trams and buses of Calcutta, or even in the windows of Bata.†   (source)
  • In her own life Ashima has lived in only five houses: her parents' flat in Calcutta, her in-laws' house for one month, the house they rented in Cambridge, living below the Montgomerys, the faculty apartment on campus, and, lastly, the one they own now.†   (source)
  • In Calcutta, from taxis and once from the roof of his grandparents' house, he has seen the dead bodies of strangers carried on people's shoulders through streets, decked with flowers, wrapped in sheets.†   (source)
  • He longs for a mosquito net to drape over Maxine's bed, remembers the filmy blue nylon boxes that he and Sonia would sleep inside of on their visits to Calcutta, the corners hooked onto the four posts of the bed, the edges tucked tightly beneath the mattress, creating a temporary, tiny, impenetrable room for the night.†   (source)
  • What's Calcutta like?†   (source)
  • A week after that a newspaper editor was blown out of his car in Hong Kong, and in less than forty-eight hours a banker was shot on a street in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • And Mortenson followed her quiet footfalls down the dark hallway and out into the heat and clamor of Calcutta.†   (source)
  • For two decades, she taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, eventually becoming its principal.†   (source)
  • A murder in Tokyo; a car blown up in Hong Kong; a narcotics caravan ambushed in the Triangle; a banker shot in Calcutta; an ambassador assassinated in Moulmein; a Russian technician or an American businessman killed in the streets of Shanghai itself.†   (source)
  • After the war, Cain made his reputation throughout most of East Asia, from as far north as Tokyo down through the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, with side trips to Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos and Calcutta.†   (source)
  • On the bumpy Biman Airways flight from Dacca to Calcutta, Mortenson had his notion of the desperate need to educate rural girls confirmed.†   (source)
  • But Anup Patel, a Hindi-speaking medical student at Yale University, conducted research on condom use in Kolkata in 2005.†   (source)
  • In 1948, after receiving the special dispensation of Pope Pius XII to work independently, she founded an open-air school for Calcutta's homeless children.†   (source)
  • That border crossing is the one through which thousands of Nepali girls are trafficked into India on their way to the brothels of Kolkata.†   (source)
  • From the headlines of newspapers on stands at Calcutta International Airport, Mortenson learned that one of his heroes, Mother Teresa, had died after a long illness.†   (source)
  • In talking about sex trafficking, we mentioned Urmi Basu, who runs the New Light shelter for trafficked women in Kolkata.†   (source)
  • At sunrise they shot west, on what had once been the Grand Trunk Road, ribboning the twenty-six hundred kilometers from Kabul to Calcutta, but which had now been demoted to the status of National Highway One, since the borders with Afghanistan and India were so often closed.†   (source)
  • But we heard contrary views from women with long experience fighting trafficking in the red-light districts of Kolkata.†   (source)
  • The driver smoked furiously as they rolled along in his black and yellow Ambassador cab, leaning so far out the window that Mortenson had an unobstructed view of Calcutta's doomsday traffic through the windshield.†   (source)
  • Mumbai's brothels historically were worse than Kolkata's, and they are famous for the "cage girls" who were held behind bars in brothels.†   (source)
  • Apne Aap is based in Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta, but its founder--a determined former journalist named Ruchira Gupta--grew up partly in Forbesgunge.†   (source)
  • She asked her boss for a ninety-day unpaid leave to go to India to work at New Light, and he flatly said no. So Sydnee quit, sold her home, and moved to Kolkata.†   (source)
  • She found it a very rough adjustment, as she put it in an e-mail to us: It took me about 6 months to actually admit to myself that I hate India (well, Kolkata, at least).†   (source)
  • Indeed, at the time the Sonagachi Project began in Kolkata, HIV prevalence among sex workers in Mumbai was already 51 percent and in Kolkata 1 percent, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health.†   (source)
  • Apne Aap is based in Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta, but its founder--a determined former journalist named Ruchira Gupta--grew up partly in Forbesgunge.†   (source)
  • But still they are the admiration of the rest of the mud-sprung, famine-knifed, street-pounding, war-rattled, difficult, painstaking, kicked in the belly, grief and cartilage mankind, the multitude, some under a coal-sucking Vesuvius of chaos smoke, some inside a heaving Calcutta midnight, who very well know where they are.†   (source)
  • The great Hindu mystic of the nineteenth century Ramakrishna (1836-1886) was a priest in a temple newly erected to the Cosmic Mother at Dakshineswar, a suburb of Calcutta.†   (source)
  • She felt for Uncle Thoby, my father said, much more than she felt for her own father— "old Dr Jackson";"respectable"; but, for all his good looks and the amazing mane of white hair that stood out like a three-cornered hat round his head, he was a commonplace prosaic old man; boring people with his stories of a famous poison case in Calcutta; excluded from this poetical fairyland; and no doubt out of temper with it.†   (source)
  • I bought it in Calcutta from a blind magician.†   (source)
  • She added, "We leave for Calcutta today."†   (source)
  • It was the turn of the eminent barrister from Calcutta.†   (source)
  • His mind had slipped from matrimony to Calcutta.†   (source)
  • He was fixing up to see women at Calcutta.†   (source)
  • They even gave up going to Calcutta to entertain us.†   (source)
  • The Pharaon left Calcutta the 5th February; she ought to have been here a month ago.†   (source)
  • He had got up an artificial climate indeed; the house was as hot as Calcutta.†   (source)
  • You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • 'Three koss [six miles] to the westward runs the great road to Calcutta.'†   (source)
  • They are coming in to Simla to send down their horns and heads to be dressed at Calcutta.†   (source)
  • I bear a degree from the great school at Calcutta—whither, maybe, the son of this House shall go.'†   (source)
  • French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore a few miles from Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Then he, an M A of Calcutta University, would explain the advantages of education.†   (source)
  • Thus in the course of years he was known successively in Bombay, in Calcutta, in Rangoon, in Penang, in Batavia—and in each of these halting-places was just Jim the water-clerk.†   (source)
  • The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.†   (source)
  • But you'll be in Calcutta.†   (source)
  • If Major Callendar had been an Indian, he would have remembered what young men are, and granted two or three days' leave to Calcutta without asking questions.†   (source)
  • Far away behind her, with a shriek that meant business, rushed the Mail, connecting up important towns such as Calcutta and Lahore, where interesting events occur and personalities are developed.†   (source)
  • He mentioned one or two names—men from a distance who would not be intimidated by local conditions—and said he should prefer Amritrao, a Calcutta barrister, who had a high reputation professionally and personally, but who was notoriously anti-British.†   (source)
  • Quite clear about this, he meditated what type of lie he should tell to get away to Calcutta, and had thought of a man there who could be trusted to send him a wire and a letter that he could show to Major Callendar, when the noise of wheels was heard in his compound.†   (source)
  • Old story of 'We will rob every man and rape every woman from Peshawar to Calcutta,' I suppose, which you get some nobody to repeat and then quote every week in the Pioneer in order to frighten us into retaining you!†   (source)
  • Semi-official, she was best approached through the Nawab Bahadur, who was best approached through Nureddin, but he never answered letters, but his mother had great influence with him and was a friend of Hamidulhah Begum's, who had been excessively kind and had promised to call on her provided the broken shutter of the purdah carriage came back soon enough from Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Scape, ruined, honest, and broken-hearted at sixty-five years of age, went out to Calcutta to wind up the affairs of the house.†   (source)
  • A week after she had left Calcutta, a storm arose and drove the vessel far out of her course; more bad weather ensued; and at length, leaks having been sprung in all directions, the crew were obliged to take to the boats.†   (source)
  • To be sure he had nothing to do with any other part of the world, and had a good deal to do with that part; being entirely in the India trade, whatever that was (I had floating dreams myself concerning golden shawls and elephants' teeth); having been at Calcutta in his youth; and designing now to go out there again, in the capacity of resident partner.†   (source)
  • Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything.†   (source)
  • Dillon returned to Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.†   (source)
  • In essence, on July 20, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, from the Calcutta & Burnach Steam Navigation Co., encountered this moving mass five miles off the eastern shores of Australia.†   (source)
  • But this vessel which, like the Pharaon, came from Calcutta, had been in for a fortnight, while no intelligence had been received of the Pharaon.†   (source)
  • But there was no such swell in Calcutta as Waterloo Sedley, I have heard say, and he had the handsomest turn-out, gave the best bachelor dinners, and had the finest plate in the whole place.†   (source)
  • There were many English and French steamers plowing this narrow passageway, liners going from Suez to Bombay, Calcutta, Melbourne, Réunion Island, and Mauritius; far too much traffic for the Nautilus to make an appearance on the surface.†   (source)
  • Over these dark and sombre chairs were thrown splendid stuffs, dyed beneath Persia's sun, or woven by the fingers of the women of Calcutta or of Chandernagor.†   (source)
  • He took breakfast in his cabin and dressed as solemnly to appear on the quarter-deck as if he were going to turn out for Bond Street, or the Course at Calcutta.†   (source)
  • Then he left Vanikoro, headed toward New Zealand, dropped anchor at Calcutta on April 7, 1828, and returned to France, where he received a very cordial welcome from King Charles X. But just then the renowned French explorer Captain Dumont d'Urville, unaware of Dillon's activities, had already set sail to search elsewhere for the site of the shipwreck.†   (source)
  • Here's the wine papers, here's the sawdust, here's the coals; here's my letters to Calcutta and Madras, and replies from Major Dobbin, C.B., and Mr. Joseph Sedley to the same.†   (source)
  • There he heard about Dillon's findings, and he further learned that a certain James Hobbs, chief officer on the Union out of Calcutta, had put to shore on an island located in latitude 8° 18' south and longitude 156° 30' east, and had noted the natives of those waterways making use of iron bars and red fabrics.†   (source)
  • He wished all Cheltenham, all Chowringhee, all Calcutta, could see him in that position, waving his hand to such a beauty, and in company with such a famous buck as Rawdon Crawley of the Guards.†   (source)
  • To outface and down-talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.†   (source)
  • He had lived for about eight years of his life, quite alone, at this charming place, scarcely seeing a Christian face except twice a year, when the detachment arrived to carry off the revenues which he had collected, to Calcutta.†   (source)
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