 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 592 pages
...loaf, 8 but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at length reached such a... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...loaf, 1 but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at length reached such a... | |
 | Prithwis Chandra Ray - Famines - 1901 - 126 pages
...was offered for a loaf, but none would buy; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. Destitution at length reached such a pitch that men began to devour each other and the flesh of a son... | |
 | Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goats flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold, men began to devour each other and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the... | |
 | William Foster - East Indies - 1910 - 492 pages
...loaf, but none would buy; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food; and the...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at length reached such a... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 304 pages
...for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever bounteous hand was now stretched out for food. For long dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold ; men began to devour each other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love.' The same scenes... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at length reached such a... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 644 pages
...loaf, but none would buy; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food; and the...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at length reached such a... | |
 | Sir Theodore Morison - Famines - 1916 - 270 pages
...(Jane ba nane), but none would buy; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food,...about only in search of sustenance. For a long time dogs' flesh was sold for goats' flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...offered for a loaf, but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it. . . . For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh,...bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at last reached such a pitch... | |
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bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food, and the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked about only in search of sustenance. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh and the pounded bones of the dead were... 
