 Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked about only in...  Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency - Side 241av Bombay (India : State) - 1880Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1877 - 598 sider
...reduced to the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf,* but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked... | |
 | Bombay (India : State). Government - 1880 - 654 sider
...century is that of 1629. In that year, following the ravages of war, came a total failure of rain. Lands famed for their richness were utterly barren...food. Dog's flesh was sold, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour. The flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The dying blocked the... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1886 - 560 sider
...Daulatabdd. Areas, before famous for fertility, became utterly barren. ' Life," says the chronicler, ' was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank...out to beg, and the rich wandered in search of food. Dogs' flesh was sold, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour. The flesh of a son was... | |
 | 1883 - 734 sider
...and the country was wasted by famine. Over the whole of western India from Ahmedabad to Daulatabad, lands famed for their richness were utterly barren...buy ; rank for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever bounteous hand was stretched to beg; and the rich wandered in search of food. Dog's flesh was... | |
 | William Foster - 1910 - 492 sider
...of India, vol. vii, p. 24) : ' Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked... | |
 | Alexander Loveday - 1914 - 184 sider
...that would take them." (c) " Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked about in search of sustenance."... | |
 | Peter Mundy - 1914 - 572 sider
...reduced to the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked... | |
 | 1919 - 740 sider
...reduced to the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food; and the feet which had always trodden the way of, contentment walked... | |
 | Madras Tercentenary Celebration Committee - 1994 - 566 sider
...food famines.68 The days when ' life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy, rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the ever-bounteous hand was stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked about in search of sustenance... | |
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