 The heroic soldiers of the Early Empire, and their not less heroic wives, had given place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzeb, who swooped down on India from the North, were ruddy men in boots. The courtiers among whom...  Littell's Living Age - Page 5331887Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzeb, who swooped down on India from the North, were ruddy men in boots. The...and the mighty Ganges herself twice during a ride of 160 miles in two days. The luxurious lords around the youthful Aurangzeb wore skirts made of innumerable... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1893 - 248 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzib, who swooped down on India from the north, were ruddy men in boots : the courtiers among whom Aurangzib grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the founder of the empire, had swum every... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden - India - 1895 - 416 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzeb, who swooped down on India from the North, were ruddy men in boots. The...and the mighty Ganges herself twice during a ride of 160 miles in two days. The luxurious lords around the youthful Aurangzeb wore skirts made of innumerable... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1896 - 230 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzib, who swooped down on India from the north, were ruddy men in boots: the courtiers among whom Aurangzib grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the founder of the empire, had swum every... | |
 | Robert Watson Frazer - India - 1896 - 440 pages
...is summed up by Sir W. Wilson Hunter as follows : " The ancestors of Aurangzi'b, who swooped down on India from the North, were ruddy men in boots ; the courtiers among whom Aurangzi'b grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the founder of the empire, had swum every... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzeb, who swooped down on India from the north, were ruddy men in boots. The...and the mighty Ganges herself twice during a ride of 160 miles in two days. The luxurious lords around the youthful Aurangzeb wore skirts made of innumerable... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1903 - 480 pages
...delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzib, who DECCAN AFFAIRS SETTLED 413 swooped down on India from the north, were ruddy men in boots : the courtiers among whom Aurangzib grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the founder of the empire, had swum every... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 690 pages
...who swooped down on India from the north, were ruddy men in boots: the courtiers among whom Aurangzib grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the...which he met with during thirty years of campaigning; the luxurious nobles around the youthful Aurangzib wore skirts made of innumerable folds of the finest... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 368 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzib, who swooped down on India from the north, were ruddy men in boots: the courtiers among whom Aurangzib grew up were pale persons in petticoats. Babar, the founder of the empire, had swum every... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1887 - 926 pages
...place to a vicious and delicate breed of grandees. The ancestors of Aurangzeb, who swooped down on India from the North, were ruddy men in boots. The...and the mighty Ganges herself twice during a ride of 160 miles in two days. The luxurious lords around the youthful Aurangzeb wore skirts made of innumerable... | |
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