 | William Henry Sleeman (sir.) - 1852
...secure from their merciless attacks—robbery And murder become their diversion—their sport—and they think no more of taking the lives of men, women...proof of numerous atrocities of this kind committed by 3s2 landholders, within the district through which I was passing, yea* by year, up to the present day.... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1859 - 486 pages
...those of deer or wild hogs. They not only rob and murder, but seize, confine, and torture all whom they suppose to have money or credit, till they ransom...landholders within the district through which I was passing. The same system is followed by landholders of smaller degrees, and of this military class. This class... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox - Architecture - 1866
...wild hogs. They not only rob and murder, but seize, confine, and torture all whom they lay hands on and suppose to have money or credit, till they ransom...was passing, year by year, up to the present day.' And again: — ' It is worthy of remark that these great landholders, who have recently acquired their... | |
 | Denis Judd - History - 2004 - 234 pages
...children who never offended them than those of deer and wild hog. They not only rob and murder, but 68 seize, confine, and torture all whom they seize and...ransom themselves with all they have or can beg or borrow.0 It was more complicated than that. Significantly, Avadh lay between two of the major centres... | |
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... wild hogs. They not only rob and murder, but seize, confine, and torture all whom they seize, and suppose to have money or credit, till they ransom themselves with all they have, or can beg or borrow. Hardly a day has passed since I left Lucknow,... 