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  • To these terms Angria agreed, but failed to get the Governor's consent to additional terms of an egregious nature; that he should be supplied by the Company with powder and shot on payment; that a place should be assigned to him to make powder in; that if pressed by his enemies, he should be assisted by the Company; that merchant ships should not be convoyed in or out of Bombay harbour.

    The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880

  • In the BBC series, Ruth Wilson's Jane is always drawing and painting, designing an alternative world like the invented realm that Charlotte Brontë and her brother, Branwell, called Angria, their private resort of intrigue and giddy revelry.

    The Guardian World News Peter Conrad 2011

  • "That, my dear boy, illustrates the darker side of Angria's character -- the side which forbids me to call Angria unreservedly my friend.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • It was: he and Charlotte collaborated as children in the invention of a complex fictional world they called Angria.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Brontës 2010

  • "The tales of _Angria_ were sustained largely by Charlotte and your brother, but eventually you and Anne broke away to create your separate world of _Gondal_."

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Where she stopped the longest and seemed to really look was at the display behind glass of Angria and Gondal, those imaginary kingdoms invented by Branwell.

    The Old Silent Grimes, Martha 1973

  • I stand pledged for you with Angria; but I flatter myself I know a man when I see one: si fractus illabitur orbis -- you have already shown your mettle.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Angria would surrender his fort peaceably he and his family would be protected; but that the fort he must have.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • The crew would be torn by conflicting emotions; with the prospect of recapture by Angria their action would be paralyzed; if he could take advantage of their indecision he might yet gain the upper hand.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Angria is my friend; I have used my influence with him; and you are now in the service of one of the most potent of Indian princes.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

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