As it is, I can face her without---- Surely she is later than usual from this Zenana meeting!
Surely they don't allow any of the missionaries to smoke at these Zenana meetings, my love--do they?
Such truce she shall have as the laws of the Zenana allow," replied the female tyrant.
But for the Zenana Light Society this impression of Miss Filbert might have deepened.
Above this is the first neat, well-constructed buildings--the Zenana hospital built and supported by the State, and now lined by the medical and nursing establishment come out to welcome the Maharaja.
I know the way into the zenana by the broken wall,' he said, 'and I will go and stab the Nawab in his sleep; who will know of it?
The Nawab had had one of the rooms in the zenana of the palace prepared to receive her, and made her as comfortable as he could; but the old dame was in no good humour, indeed, was in the last degree of indignation and vexation.
One zenana we used to visit belonged to an old man who professed to be a great reformer, but whose women were still in strict purdah.
All must not and cannot be told in illustration of this, but what happened a short time ago in our out-patient department of the Zenana Mission Hospital is an instance.
But you forget your Zenana Mission, my love; you will be out yourself this evening!
Nizam of Hyderabad--Purdah ladies--Breakfast in a zenana pp.
She was dead before the date of our visit, but some ladies of the zenana still lingered on in the Palace.
There was a story going when we were at Hyderabad that the women had, shortly before, inveigled the Nizam into the depths of the Zenana and given him a good flogging!
Amongst other things Syed Hossain had set up a Zenana School for "purdah" girls of the upper classes, which was at that time quite a new experiment in India.
Did you not tell me that Nur Mahal inhabits that portion of the zenana situate over the Water Gate?
The counterpart of Durga-worship is the Zenana system.
Zenana is not the name of a province in India, as the good people of Scotland the other day took it to be, but the innermost department of a Hindu or Mohammedan house which the women occupy.
She was a woman of immense activity and energy; and if she were absent one day from the palace, the affairs of the zenana would be in perfect disorder.
He went home from the river in a pensive mood, and instead of proceeding to the zenana for breakfast, remained in the outer part of the palace.
As I came out into the passage leading to the zenana I found my sister-in-law, standing near a window overlooking the reception rooms, peeping through the venetian shutter.
Of these the Zenana windows of the Maharajah's palace are about the finest specimens; but as there is no way of approaching them closely, it is impossible to make out their details.
The choice of a wife is the privilege of the elder brother; and singular as it may seem, a Thibetan wife is as jealous of her connubial rites as ever the despot of an Indian Zenana is of the favours of his imprisoned fair.
He assured the readers of the paper that, among the many scenes of missionary labour, none had of late attracted more attention than the Zenana mission, and assuredly none was more deserving of this attention.
I knew then that he had received a letter from the editor, advising him to look out Zenana in the Atlas before writing anything further about so ticklish a region.
Comparatively few years had passed since Zenana had been opened up to British trade, but already, owing to the devotion of a handful of men and women, the nature of the inhabitants had been almost entirely changed.
By the Hindoo of the old regime, woman is kept in great ignorance and superstition; her education is limited to a small stock of aphorisms and rules of etiquette; her life in the zenana is largely one of idleness.
Hence in 1866 zenana missions were organized by English women doctors and missionaries.
Other interesting conveyances are those in which the zenana ladies travel.
Yes, father; the mistress of the zenana saw me directly an attendant told her I was there.
You can prepare some harmless drink, and Rabda will tell the mistress of the zenana it will bring out a disfiguring eruption.
While ladies are welcome enough when they pay a visit of ceremony to the Zenana of a native, if they were to try to teach their wives to be discontented with their lots--for that is what it would be--they would be no longer welcome.
He was told the state that she was in, and the chief lady of the zenana sent him word that for the present she must have quiet and rest, but that in two or three days she might be fit to see him.
In a few minutes a woman came up to say that the palanquin was in readiness at the gate of the zenana garden.
I told the mistress of the zenana that you had given me some magic words that I was to whisper to her to prepare the way for the philter, so she let me in without difficulty, and I was allowed to go close up to her and repeat your message.
Prepared as the mistress of the zenana was to find a great change in the captive's appearance, she was startled when, soon after daybreak, she went in to see her.
The sentries offered no opposition to her passing out, as the officer with the palanquin had told them that a lady of the Rajah's zenana would leave shortly.
The good intentions back of the proposition were recognized, and sincere thanks returned for it, but the proposition itself met with a prompt declination at the hands of those who were authorized to speak for the zenana ladies.
There are the Baptist Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, the London Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission.
But like the timid and submissive inmate of the zenana suddenly delivered from the thraldom of her life-long partner, she immediately falls under the control of another.
Why these airs of the zenana with one enlightened--like yourself.
Through the dark archway, under a block of zenana buildings they passed: and there lay before them the great tank patterned with quivering threads of light.
To the women of his own zenana he had always been carelessly kind, and women are least bribable of the two sexes.
Immediately the high priest announced that the successful candidate would be conducted to the palace zenana and confined there till the final ceremonies were over.
The note informed her that the woman doctor of the zenana had been sufficiently bribed to permit Kathlyn to make up like her and gain admittance to the zenana.
The white Mem-sahib was not dead, but had been recaptured while posing as the zenana physician in an attempt to rescue her sister, the new queen.
In the zenana of the royal palace there was a woman, tall, lithe, with a skin of ivory and roses and eyes as brown as the husk of a water chestnut.
The colonel and Ramabai had left the zenana by one of the windows overlooking the passage which ran past the garden of brides.
Unlike Kathlyn, who had Pundita to untangle the intricacies of the bastard Persian, Winnie had to depend wholly upon sign language; and the inmates of the zenana did not give her the respect and attention they had given to Kathlyn.
Now, this woman of the zenana believed not in the God of your fathers and mine.
She was about to turn away in despair when through the wicker gate she saw Winnie, attended by one of the zenana girls, enter the garden.
There she waited for her father and Ramabai, who had paused by the door of one of the zenana chambers.
The servants and the women of the zenana remained undisturbed.
He never entered the zenana or harem; but occasionally he sent for some of the women to play and dance before him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zenana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
