How To Use Mahratta In A Sentence
- This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space. Redgauntlet
- ‘And who is that?’ the Mahratta asked, glancing sideways nervously. Kim
- I undertook no part of the Persian; but, instead thereof, engaged in translating it into Maharastra, commonly called the Mahratta language, the person who assists me in the Hindostani being a Mahratta. Life of William Carey
- Excellency, despising the Mahratta chieftain, had allowed him to advance about two thousand miles in his front, and knew not in the slightest degree where to lay hold on him. Burlesques
- He subsequently distinguished himself under the Peshwah in the famous campaigns of 1737-8 against the Mogul emperor, Mohammed Shah: and on the cession of Malwa to the Mahrattas in 1743, he received the government of that province as a _jaghir_ or fief, which he transmitted at his death to his son Mahdajee. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
- From the South — God knows how far — came up the Mahratta, playing the Great Game in fear of his life. Kim
- Ragoba, however, found means not only to pay his troops, but to buy off some of the chiefs of the hostile confederacy; and then he and his English allies marched upon Poona, which was a kind of Mahratta capital. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
- After fierce fighting the Mahratta front line on the British left was broken by the 78th Highlanders, majestic giants in kilts and feathered bonnets.
- Presidency of Bombay in favor of Ragoba, did afterwards, when it appeared that those negotiations were _entirely laid aside_, declare that his apprehension of the consequence of a pretended _intrigue_ between the Mahrattas and the French _was the sole motive of all the late measures taken for the support of the Presidency of Bombay_; but that neither of the preceding declarations contained the true motives and objects of the said Hastings, whose real purpose, as it appeared soon after, was, to make use of the superiority of the British power in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
- The Mahratta artillery opened fire at close range with grapeshot and chainshot, doing terrible execution.
