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Example sentences for "rajah"

Lexicographically close words:
raisonne; raisons; rait; raither; raize; rajahs; rake; raked; raker; rakers
  1. The Rajah sent for all the best physicians of the country for restoring his son to his reason; but the physicians were powerless.

  2. The Rajah consulted the astrologers, and the day and the hour in which the nuptial knot was to be tied were fixed.

  3. He asked where they got them from; they said the Lady Sahib gave them: upon which the rajah turned round to his Sikh and asked, 'May they keep them?

  4. This rajah is immensely rich; he had a great many handsome things.

  5. The Rajah of Nahun met us at the last stage, and came up the hill with us to-day.

  6. This morning we went half-way in the carriage and then got on elephants, to meet the Rajah of Putteealah, whose territories we enter to-day.

  7. Soon after the horses returned, the nazir and three or four of the native servants came into my tent in great perturbation: the rajah had sent the nazir a pair of shawls, one shawl to the elephant jemadar, and another to G.

  8. Vakeel from the Bhurtpore Rajah and a visit from Luckund Chund, the richest banker in India.

  9. It was very good-natured of the rajah to think of it, and I shall keep my little spice-box with a tender recollection of him, to say nothing of its being a lovely little article, per se.

  10. The rajah was very nervous at first, and his wide black face full of twitches, but Mr. H.

  11. This morning we came in on elephants because the Duttyah rajah met G.

  12. This next picture is the Rajah of Nahun and his sons, and I think it quite unequalled for brilliancy of colouring.

  13. The rajah put us three on a velvet sofa, with a gold gauze carpet before it.

  14. The rajah displayed no sign of interest in our coming.

  15. So far the adventure had been successful, and the rajah took up his lodgings in a room where he was not likely to be discovered.

  16. He determined, therefore, to take the first favourable opportunity of telling the rajah who he was, and entreating him to give him the information that was of such vital importance to his future interests.

  17. At that moment he was aroused by the voice of Burnett, who, approaching, exclaimed, "I trust the rajah is not worse.

  18. The preparations for their reception now gave ample occupation to the rajah and his nobles.

  19. The rajah could only talk of the vengeance he would take should the rebels have succeeded; and he vowed that the streets of the city should run with the blood of his foes as soon as he had succeeded in overpowering them.

  20. They accordingly dismounted, and having watered their horses at the stream, sat down on the ground to discuss their rice and ghee,--the rajah and his chief officers partaking of the same simple fare as the men.

  21. The rajah consented; but some time passing by, and the young man not returning, he grew impatient, and desired that his horse might be prepared.

  22. Their suspicions were generally aroused; and some even declared that the rajah had sold his country to the English.

  23. Reginald, though feeling no small amount of indignation at the cowardly conduct of the troops, saw that at present it would be useless to urge the rajah to turn and attack the enemy.

  24. One third of the dominions of Holkar was confiscated; the Rajah of Berar was deposed.

  25. The army of the Holkar state was routed, after a much harder struggle, at Mehidpore; the hordes of the Rajah of Berar fled before 1500 British troops at Seetabuldee.

  26. He had usurped the throne of his master, the Rajah of Mysore, and had conquered all his neighbours by the aid of a great mercenary army of fanatical Mussulmans.

  27. To raise new resources he harshly fined Cheyte Singh, Rajah of Benares, a vassal prince who was slack in contributing to the war.

  28. He conspired with the Rajah of Berar and the regents who ruled for the young Holkar.

  29. We had also annexed in the same year the possessions of the Rajah of Berar in Orissa.

  30. Whatever might have been the tortures which the rajah had decided on, none as yet had been ordered; and although Neranya knew that they were in contemplation, he never referred to them or complained of his lot.

  31. In punishment for this the rajah ordered that Neranya's right arm (the offending one) be severed from his body.

  32. To his unspeakable dismay the rajah sentenced him for this offence to suffer amputation of the remaining arm.

  33. I found the rajah a man of a noble character, but possessed, as I afterwards discovered, of a sense of cruelty purely Oriental and in contrast to the indolence of his disposition.

  34. The rajah folded his arms and gazed down from the balcony upon the frightful wreck that he had made.

  35. His eyes blazed upon the rajah with a terrible light, his lips parted, and he gasped for breath; his face was ashen with rage and despair, and his thin, distended nostrils quivered.

  36. The death of the young man nearly brought the rajah to the grave.

  37. His love for the rajah was changed to hate, and in his mad anger he flung discretion to the winds.

  38. Finally, through a sense of gratitude to me, the rajah relaxed.

  39. The rajah decided upon the details of the matter that night, and in the morning he informed me of his decision.

  40. It was a hot night, and the rajah had gone to sleep in the great hall, lying on a high cot placed on the main floor just underneath the edge of the balcony.

  41. The Rajah accompanied the Queen to Benares.

  42. The Rajah himself was taken prisoner, and placed in confinement by the dutiful son who now occupies the throne, and who sometimes allows him, on grand occasions, to take his seat upon it next to himself.

  43. Jung then proceeded on his way to the palace, where he at once demanded of the Rajah to be dismissed from office, or to be furnished with authority to order the destruction of all the enemies of the heir-apparent.

  44. While we were chatting on indifferent subjects a native rajah was announced, as being desirous of paying a visit of ceremony.

  45. We visited the young Rajah in Durbar, and the difference between the Mahratta and Nepaulese Courts was most striking.

  46. No more blithe errands over the mountain to Clovelly and elsewhere, though Jake knew the issue now and itched for the battle, and the vassals of the hill-Rajah under a jubilant Bijah Bixby were arming cap-a-pie.

  47. It is none other than the Honorable Heth Sutton, Rajah of Clovelly, Speaker of the House, who has condescended to help Mr. Wetherell.

  48. A certain respect was due to a member of Congress and the Rajah of Clovelly.

  49. The Rajah of Markestan is too wily a beast to go for the large game at the outset, though--probably--the large game is the only stuff he cares about.

  50. She had riden with the Rajah in the early morning, and was pleasantly tired.

  51. Hence the sympathy that exists between the Rajah and myself.

  52. The Rajah has been deeply incriminated and is in hiding.

  53. It was the Rajah that frightened her so--the Rajah--and my mother.

  54. The finger of suspicion has been pointed at the Rajah a good many times lately, and I do think that for Tessa's sake, if not for your own, you ought to put a check upon your intimacy with him.

  55. She had dubbed the Rajah her Arabian Knight.

  56. Stories were rife concerning her continued intimacy with the Rajah who was now in residence at his summer palace on the hill.

  57. Netta seldom went to race course or polo-ground, where the Rajah was most frequently to be found.

  58. But the Rajah only laughed in that nasty, slippy way he has and took her cigarette away and smoked it himself.

  59. I can't think what the Rajah finds to write about when they are always meeting.

  60. The Rajah was in difficulties and unable, without our aid, to dispose of a claimant to his throne, whose hereditary right originated somewhere in the lifetime of St. Paul.

  61. Hearing in Simla that an expeditionary force was about to be despatched to the assistance of the Rajah of Oadpur, General Watson hastened thither.

  62. On inquiry, I found this was the residence of the Rajah of Johore, who includes Sincapore also in his dominions.

  63. We did not wait long, for the Rajah soon appeared, and took his seat, in lieu of a throne, upon the highest step of those which led to his dwelling.

  64. So the rajah arranged a tiger hunt for Prince Henry.

  65. It was right there on the level ground, in front of the ravine, that the rajah placed the hunters.

  66. But every time the Rajah was disappointed.

  67. Is it not time for the Rajah war-canoe to go to the clearing?

  68. Are you dumb, O ruler of Sambir, or is the son of a great Rajah unworthy of your notice?

  69. Europe had swallowed up the Rajah Laut apparently, and Almayer looked vainly westward for a ray of light out of the gloom of his shattered hopes.

  70. All his movements were no doubt closely watched by Lakamba and Abdulla, for the man once in the confidence of Rajah Laut was supposed to be in possession of valuable secrets.

  71. You tell the Rajah where the old white man's treasure is.

  72. He knew that his master, after the manner of the great, liked to shift the burden of toil and danger on to his servants' shoulders, but in the difficult straits in which they were now the Rajah must play his part.

  73. You should go to the Rajah here; you can see in the daytime his houses across the river, there, where those fires are burning on the shore.

  74. The Rajah would not commit himself to a definite promise, and anxiously pressed Babalatchi to go, being afraid of the white men paying him an unexpected visit.

  75. That was before an English Rajah ruled in Kuching.

  76. Among the silent thousands whose quiet work keeps the Empire alive, find a Rajah Brooke if you can, or a Mr. Smith of Scilly.

  77. He cannot have the authority of a complete governor, or undertake independent enterprises for the benefit of the island, as a Rajah Brooke might do, but he walks steadily on in the lines assigned to him.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rajah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.