Calcutta

Examples

• A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes and even render it mortal, as in the Black Hole at Calcutta. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• 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.
• In the mint of Calcutta, an ounce of fine gold is supposed to be worth fifteen ounces of fine silver, in the same manner as in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Scape, ruined, honest, and broken-hearted at sixty-five years of age, went out to Calcutta to wind up the affairs of the house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was the Black Hole of Calcutta on a small scale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The idea of it grew in the mind of young Colt when he left his father’s silk mill and shipped as a boy sailor in the ship Carlo, bound from Boston to Calcutta. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• What goods could bear the expense of land-carriage between London and Calcutta? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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