"Hindustani" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sure that it would not be a bad thing for Stanley. He will soon get to be useful to me, and in three or four years will be a valuable assistant. Speaking Hindustani as well as he does, he won't be very long in picking up enough of the various dialects in Kathee and Chittagong for our purpose and, by twenty, he will have a share of the business, and be on the highway towards making his fortune. It will be infinitely better than anything he is likely to find ...
— On the Irrawaddy - A Story of the First Burmese War • G. A. Henty
... are frozen over; so Baby lisps his dawn paeans in soft Oriental accents, wakening harmonious echoes amongst those impulsive and impressionable children of Nature that masque themselves in the black slough of Bearers and Ayahs; and Baby blubbers in Hindustani. ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... there can be no doubt of the great educational value of some highly inflected and well-developed language taught by men to whom it is a genuine means of expression. Educational needs and public necessity point alike to such languages as Russian or, in the case of Great Britain, Hindustani ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells
... le plus. When, with the progress of the years, a supreme writer is read more and more over all the world; when his plays are translated from English into Hebrew and Japanese, and performed in Roumanian and Hindustani, criticism should become simply a humble endeavour to realize the various powers and beauties which constitute ...
— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker
... The Hindustani poet Amir Khosru gives a picture of the Mongols more forcible than elegant, which Elliot has ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
