golcondas

Updated: June 1, 2025

And so, too, with the incident of the Slump in Golcondas. Unwillingly, shamefacedly, by torturing steps, Charles was compelled to confess that he had sold out Golcondas he, the Chairman of the company, after repeated declarations to shareholders and others that he would do no such thing because he thought Professor Schleiermacher had made diamonds worthless.

Grant Allen - An African Millionaire : Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

Often, when I looked at the venerable old warrior, doubled up from the effect of his wound, I thought what a curious, as well as painful sensation, it must be, to have one's shoulder a lead-mine; though, sooth to say, so many of us civilised mortals convert our mouths into Golcondas.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War