L-SYS is for real riders, who know and rove the danger of cycring, hermet? bah, my hermet is a reather hair net with nairs pointing inward, so if I'm stupid enough to clash, I feer it. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
Three nairs were accordingly sent to the factory, one of whom the Castilian pointed out as the King's nephew, and advised that he especially should be strictly watched. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
As they proceeded through a long street the crowd was so great, many among the people being Moors, with swords and shields, that it was with difficulty the Portuguese could make their way, until several nairs arrived and drove the rabble aside. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
When both armies approach within three arrow-flights, the king sends his bramins to the enemy by way of heralds, to challenge an hundred of them to combat against an hundred of his nairs, during which set combat both sides prepare themselves for battle. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
They asked me to show them a certain Christian, much taller and stronger than any of the others, who used every day to slay about twenty of the Mahometans, and who at one time, when assailed by fifty of the nairs, escaped unhurt. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Besides the nairs, many of the people in these paraos are Moors. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The zamorin would not at first believe the information, having conceived a good opinion of their fidelity, yet sent four of his nairs to examine into the truth of the information. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Therefore, on the 1st of December, having hired a light bark, I and my two companions set sail; but had hardly got from shore an arrow-flight, when four of the _nairs_ of the king's guard called to the pilot of our vessel, and ordered him, in the king's name, to come to land. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The wages of the nairs are four _carlines_ each, monthly, in time of peace, and six during war. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The second order among them are the nairs, who come in place of our gentlemen, and go out to war with swords and bucklers, lancet, bows, and other weapons. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The nairs answered, that they knew I was a person who had wrought miracles; but as I could speak the language of the Portuguese, it was to be feared that I might betray their secrets to the enemy, and give them notice of the navy and army which had been prepared at Calicut against them, and therefore they strictly enjoined the pilot to carry us no farther. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The nairs belonging to the Samorin or king of Calicut, which are ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
When the nairs understood who we were, they asked the ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The king sometimes rides on an elephant, but at other times is carried by his nairs or nobles, and when he goes out is always followed by a numerous band of minstrels, making a prodigious noise with drums, timbrels, tambourets, and other such instruments. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
The nairs or gentlemen may not begin to eat, till one of them has dressed and set the food in order, with certain ceremonies, but the lower orders are not bound to such rules. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
In arms, in arts, and possibly in virtue, they excelled the natives of Hindostan; the husbandmen cultivated the palm-tree, the merchants were enriched by the pepper trade, the soldiers preceded the _nairs_ or nobles of Malabar, and their hereditary privileges were respected by the gratitude or the fear of the king of Cochin and the Zamorin himself. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)
In arms, in arts, and possibly in virtue, they excelled the natives of Hindostan; the husbandmen cultivated the palm-tree, the merchants were enriched by the pepper trade, the soldiers preceded the nairs or nobles of Malabar, and their hereditary privileges were respected by the gratitude or the fear of the king of Cochin and the Zamorin himself. ❋ Edward Gibbon (1765)
The baser sort are those who sow and gather rice, who are kept under such subjection by the bramins and nairs that they dare not approach nearer to them than 50 paces under pain of death and are therefore obliged to lurk in bye places and marshes; and when they go anywhere abroad they call out continually in a loud voice, that they may be hoard of the bramins and nairs otherwise if any of these were to come near they would certainly put these low people to death. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
-- E.] [Footnote 112: In the naval battle the principal force at least must have been Mahometans, as the Hindoos do not use the sea; but, in this land-war with the new rajah of Cananore, the nairs would constitute the main force of the enemy, though there might be some Mahometan auxiliaries. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
