"Durbar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rose up in the glaring sun, but with closed and shaded windows. Dusky shapes flitted about, busied in the infinitesimal occupations of Indian servitors, but no graceful woman form could be seen in the witching gardens where a Rajah might have fitly held a durbar. ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... Tertius. "He takes his men to pray at the Durbar Sahib at Amritzar, regularly as clockwork, ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... Hsuan, B.C. 827-781, unjustly put to death a Minister, and how the latter had said to the King, "If there is no consciousness after death, this matter will be at an end; but if there is, then within three years you will hear from me." Three years later, at a grand durbar, the Minister descended from heaven on a white horse, and shot the King dead before the ...
— Religions of Ancient China • Herbert A. Giles |
