Sentence examples for Hindoo from inspiring English sources

He remodeled the Royal Pavilion (1815 c. 1822), Brighton, in a fanciful "Hindoo" style (derived from architecture in India) at enormous financial cost.

A five-month position as private secretary to an Indian maharaja in 1923 provided the material for his humorous Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (1932).

In his thirty years at the BBC, he published only two books, "Hindoo Holiday" and "My Dog Tulip".

He produced four books: three memoirs — "Hindoo Holiday" (1932), "My Dog Tulip" (1956), "My Father and Myself" (1968) — and a novel, "We Think the World of You" (1960), all of which are now in print from New York Review Books.

He has translated a lot of commercial fiction, but also Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" and "Love's Labours Lost," Potocki's "Manuscript Found at Saragossa" and Kafka's "Metamorphosis," J. R. Ackerley's "Hindoo Holiday" and Daisy Ashford's "The Young Visiters" … As it turns out, however, he is both generous in answering questions and not a control freak.

"Yoga: The Art of Transformation," on display through Jan . 26 features monumental stone yogini goddesses from a 10th century Indian temple, devotional icons, several folios from an illustrated manuscript of yoga positions or asanas created for a Mughal emperor in 1602, as well as "Hindoo Fakir," a film about India that Thomas Edison made in 1906.

In Delhi it will be in contact with far more varied types of Indian peoples Sikhs, Hindoos, Mohammedans, and other lesser races being all represented in the surrounding country.

Nursed by the Hindoos, you would have entered the pagoda with reverence, and worshipped the soul of your ancestor in a duck.

Balthazar Solvyns's 1799 book describing "the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos" is included, open to a page with a tinted etching depicting an acetic with exceptionally long fingernails, holding his arms up for what is apparently an extended period of time.

He wrote that the Chinese were a race of geniuses, that "Negroes" were vastly inferior, that "Hindoos" were inferior in "strength and business habits" and that the "Arab is little more than an eater up of other men's produce; he is a destroyer".

To impress British customs officials, Kewley has hung his ship's dining cabin with portraits of Queen Victoria's children, but secretly he is rooting for the "Hindoos" who are at this moment causing Her Majesty so much trouble with the Indian Mutiny.