Thuggee

They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Lady, her kid, and lots of action with local politics and the rise and antics of a thug or thuggee type cult of assassins and their death goddess worship. ❋ Blue Tyson (2006)

When thuggee and suttee were abolished in India the British authorities shouldered the responsibility for eliminating those horrors and for administering the lands in question. ❋ Richard (2007)

Does John Footman, when he asks permission to go and spend the evening with some friends, pass his time in thuggee; waylay and strangle an old gentleman, or two; let himself into your house, with the house-key of course, and appear as usual with the shaving-water when you ring your bell in the morning? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Forced to rely on her other senses, the blinded heroine makes short work of the transparent thuggee, ultimately running him through with her blind man's cane. ❋ Edghill, Rosemary (2002)

It is by the orders of Bowani herself; for I have wronged her, and she is angry and has loudly proclaimed to me that thuggee is ended -- that her protection is for ever withdrawn from me and my fellows, because, O misery, we have grievously offended her. ❋ Edmund Mitchell (N/A)

I need only mention such enormities as _thuggee_, _sattee_, infant murder, etc., all of which were thriving even a hundred years ago, but which are now things of the past. ❋ Unknown (1881)

He said that Forster, one of our first-class writers, had told him that the most characteristic speech was not reported, and mentioned the heads -- as, the slave-trade being of the same nature as thuggee, garrotting; the tribute ❋ William Garden Blaikie (1859)

View It » there's nothing to applaud. they can set up any number of currencies, but if they don't have the faith and support of solvent gov'ts, the only ones they are kidding are themselves. go to google and look up the first sucre. see how that did. how you can spin this move by Chavez and his socialist thuggee into your standard leftish antiamericanism is astounding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_thuggee_ on his own portly person -- a belief in which he was confirmed by hearing them speak _in another tongue_ among themselves -- no doubt the ❋ Various (N/A)

Then he told us he was a Hajji -- had been three times to Mecca -- come in from French Africa, and that he'd met the nigger by the wayside -- just like a case of thuggee, in India -- and the nigger had poisoned him. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Both terms are actually Hindustani, ‘goon’ from ‘gunda’ for a mercenary muscleman hired to rough up opposing factions, and ‘thug’ from the ‘thuggee’ sect which was very violent and I’m pretty sure adherents of Kali. ❋ Unknown (2008)

; territories, defined, 553 n.; river thuggee in, 652. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

"'If I go with you now,' I said, 'to the shop of Kubar Bux, what proof will you give me of his connexion with this story of thuggee?' ❋ Edmund Mitchell (N/A)

"Well," remarked the magistrate, "for my own part, ever from that day when I heard the story of thugs and thuggee I have exercised the precaution of never travelling a single mile on the road with strangers, however fair-spoken. ❋ Edmund Mitchell (N/A)

He said that Forster, one of our first-class writers, had told him that the most characteristic speech was not reported, and mentioned the heads ” as, the slave-trade being of the same nature as thuggee, garrotting; the tribute ❋ Blaikie, William G. (1880)

Lucknow, whose invaluable services in putting down thuggee and dacoitee in India we have already described to our readers. [ ❋ Various (1841)