maharanees

Updated: May 28, 2025

There were ladies in search of necklaces, and men, it seemed to Kim but his mind may have been vitiated by early training in search of the ladies; natives from independent and feudatory Courts whose ostensible business was the repair of broken necklaces rivers of light poured out upon the table but whose true end seemed to be to raise money for angry Maharanees or young Rajahs.

Rudyard Kipling - Kim

"We're going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a dove, and a white and green house filled with books and silver tea-sets." "And cookies?" "Cookies? Oh, most decidedly cookies. We've had enough of bread and porridge.

Sinclair Lewis - Main Street