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  • You certainly won't see the giant retail chain Zara reproducing Mr. Wu's houndstooth tweed overcoat with gold bullion embroidery ($15,000), nor for that matter Valentino's hand-painted lace gown with beaded and sequined flowers ($18,000), nor Chanel's gold sequinned prefall jacket ($23,010) that looks purloined from a Indian rajah's treasury.

    Is Ready-to-Wear the New Couture? Meenal Mistry 2011

  • Barbaric splendor and splendor that was not by any means barbaric lay all about -- tiger skins, ivory-legged chairs, graven bronze vases, and a yak-hair shawl worth a rajah's ransom.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • She showed him where eleven hundred Mauser rifles stood in racks in another cave, with boxes of ammunition piled beside them -- each rifle and cartridge worth its weight in silver coin -- a very rajah's ransom!

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Or perhaps they were all reloading with canister to give the approaching redcoats a rajah's welcome.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • Surrounded now, he waved both hands to shoo them away and watched as they scattered, like gemstones tossed from a rajah's hand.

    Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

  • But their hopes were not to be realized; ere they had gone many yards, the flight of the rajah's widow had been discovered, and with hideous cries they sought eagerly to find her.

    Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

  • He represented to Budrudeen that the Malays were unanimously of opinion that the rajah's brother could not expose himself in an assault; that their dread of the rajah's indignation far exceeded the dread of death; and in case any accident happened to him, his brother's fury would fall on them.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • My reply was, that I could give no such promise; that if they surrendered, it must be for life or death, according to the rajah's pleasure; and all I could do was to use my influence in order to save their lives.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • There was plenty of noise, but still order prevailed: no other rupees than the _rajah's_ were taken, and even pice were refused.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • The rajah's young widow made a strange contrast to Lianor, gay with rich colors.

    Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

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