"Kafir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Kafir die, to him is remitted Jehannum, If he borrowed in life from a native at 60 per cent. ...
— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe
... Portuguese and Dutch by the treatment her husband received from them when a fugitive, after an unsuccessful rebellion against his father; and her hatred to them extended, in some degree, to all Christians, whom she considered to be included in the term 'Kafir', or unbeliever. [W. H. S.] Prince Shah Jahan (Khurram) rebelled against his father, Jahangir, in A.D. 1623, and submitted in A.D. 1625. The terrible punishment inflicted by Shah Jahan when Emperor on the Portuguese of Hugli ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... unpleasant taste, though apt to turn upon the stomach, made from crushed grain—not Indian corn, but a small brown grain that grows upon its stem in clusters, not unlike that which in the southern part of Africa is known by the name of Kafir corn. The vase which contained this liquor was very curious, and as it more or less resembled many hundreds of others in use among the Amahagger I may as well describe it. These vases are of a very ancient manufacture, and of all sizes. None such can have been made in the country for ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard |
