maharaja's

With rare exceptions, these are not works of art but objects meant to dazzle—showmanship was, after all, part of a maharaja's job description.

Conspicuous Consumption David Littlejohn 2011

Other packages include a "" Millennium Waltz '' at Vienna's Imperial Hotel, a fest at the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu and a jaunt through India and Nepal culminating in a "" maharaja's banquet '' at the Taj Mahal.

From The Great Pyramid To Machu Picchu 2008

We meandered across a maze of corridors, past inner courtyards and stairwells, as well as a golden Krishna altar and a business center, to a room she confided was her favorite: a few hundred meters of bedroom, salon and kitchen, fit for a maharaja's extended family.

Karin Badt: Ahmedabad Bombings and Gandhi (viii) 2008

Hindus and Sikhs in the part of the state that had come under Pakistani rule were subjected to brutal murders and mass exodus, Muslims in the Jammu province faced a similar fate with several thousands of them being slaughtered by mobs led by the Sanghis — RSS and Hindu Mahasabha elements — and abetted by the maharaja's forces.

Archive 2006-09-01 Abhay N 2006

Deep in a tunnel beneath a hill palace, with the maharaja's guards close on our heels, Tommy happened to mention that a female passenger on board our ship, a passenger who mysteriously disembarked in Aden, had been talking to him about Sherlock Holmes.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

And as if to lay an omen of blessing on the decision, a small piece of Nature's magic whirred past me, a flash of red more brilliant than a maharaja's rubies, moving so fast I could not easily focus until it paused, hovering to drink from the pendulous blossoms of a fuchsia: a humming-bird.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Everything the maharaja's headmaster had told him was there, and a few other things besides.

The "It was" and "There Was" Brouhaha Mirtika 2005

Deep in a tunnel beneath a hill palace, with the maharaja's guards close on our heels, Tommy happened to mention that a female passenger on board our ship, a passenger who mysteriously disembarked in Aden, had been talking to him about Sherlock Holmes.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Everything the maharaja's headmaster had told him was there, and a few other things besides.

Archive 2005-11-01 Mirtika 2005

And as if to lay an omen of blessing on the decision, a small piece of Nature's magic whirred past me, a flash of red more brilliant than a maharaja's rubies, moving so fast I could not easily focus until it paused, hovering to drink from the pendulous blossoms of a fuchsia: a humming-bird.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005