Brahmin

in a sentence

I went to temple at crowded times when the Brahmins were too distracted to come between God and me.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

"That which no longer finds favor in the hearing of Brahmins," said the boy.†  (source) Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light, 1967

Instead they're a mix of Angus, Brahmin, and other breeds.†  (source) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009

He was born from his father's left side, the father having swallowed by mistake a fertility potion that the Brahmins had prepared for his wife;* and in keeping with the promising symbolism of this miracle, the motherless marvel, fruit of the male womb, grew to be such a king among kings that when the gods, at one period, were suffering defeat in their perpetual contest with the demons, they called upon him for help.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

The priest is a friend of Moushumi's parents, an anesthesiologist who happens to be a Brahmin.†  (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003

With three other Brahmins he formed in Mohalis a Boston colony which stood for sturdy sweetness and decorously shaded light.†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

Despite Hema's lack of interest in marriage, her mother was terrified that her daughter would end up with a non-Brahmin, someone like Ghosh.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

Certainly those down-country Brahmins are utterly useless.†  (source) Rudyard Kipling, Kim, 1901

The colonel's accent is Brahmin and his tone is fearless.†  (source) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Lincoln, 2011

He soon returned, saying: "A procession of Brahmins is coming this way.†  (source) Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, 1873

In less violent form, in subtle digs and supercilious little drawing-room slanders, Southerners who had ventured north were to endure such exploitative assaults upon their indwelling guilt during an era of unalleviated discomfort which ended officially on a morning in August, 1963, when on North Water Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts, the youngish, straw-haired, dimple-kneed wife of the yacht-club commodore, a prominent Brahmin investment banker, was seen brandishing a copy of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time as she uttered to a friend, in tones of clamp-jawed desolation, these words: "My dear, it's going to happen to all of us!"†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.†  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851