Bombay
[bɔm'bei]
Examples
- At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Inquiries made at Plymouth proved that they had sailed, forty-eight hours previously, in the BEWLEY CASTLE, East Indiaman, bound direct to Bombay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They are now (there is every reason to believe) on their passage to Bombay, in an East Indiaman. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Huff, Bombay ditto; Mrs. Pice, the Lady of Pice the Director, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The young Masters Bangles rushed to the window with a vague notion that their father might have arrived from Bombay. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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