thuggee

• River thuggee, xxxiii, 652. —  Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
• Does John Footman, when he asks permission to go and spend the evening with some friends, pass his time in thuggee; waylay and strangle an old gentleman, or two; let himself into your house, with the house-key of course, and appear as usual with the shaving-water when you ring your bell in the morning? —  Roundabout Papers
• Lucknow, whose invaluable services in putting down thuggee and dacoitee in India we have already described to our readers. [ —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
• It is by the orders of Bowani herself; for I have wronged her, and she is angry and has loudly proclaimed to me that thuggee is ended -- that her protection is for ever withdrawn from me and my fellows, because, O misery, we have grievously offended her. —  Tales of Destiny
• "'If I go with you now,' I said, 'to the shop of Kubar Bux, what proof will you give me of his connexion with this story of thuggee?' —  Tales of Destiny

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