Indies

Examples

• I love to hear my uncle talk of the West Indies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What the Cape of Good Hope is between Europe and every part of the East Indies, Batavia is between the principal countries of the East Indies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She presently returned, and said, that Mr. Brownlow had sold off his goods, and gone to the West Indies, six weeks before. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He took me with him to the West Indies, set me free, and married me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Deliver this letter to the agent when you reach Liverpool, and let me advise you, gentlemen, not to be too knowing in the West Indies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer, and made money. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I went down to Ramsgate for a week with a friend last September, just after my return from the West Indies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He's learned his trade well, among the pirates in the West Indies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Craven has got me into the West Indies again. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• That is to say, cried Marianne contemptuously, he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The most barbarous nations either of Africa or of the East Indies, were shepherds; even the Hottentots were so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Fanny, William must not forget my shawl if he goes to the East Indies; and I shall give him a commission for anything else that is worth having. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Ph?nician shipping under Egyptian owners was making its way into the East Indies and perhaps even further into the Pacific. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It will be remembered that at a somewhat similar crisis in life young Robert Burns entertained seriously the idea of forsaking Scotland for the West Indies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I think I shall trade, said he, leaning back in his chair, to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Think I have--thousands of times--not here--West Indies-- exciting thing--hot work--very. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She might just as well be in the East Indies, said Esterhazy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Hang it: the regiment's just back from the West Indies, I must have a little fling, and then when I'm married I'll reform; I will upon my honour, now. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The elder, Solomon, remained with his relatives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of the Advantages which Europe has derived From the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I wish he may go to the East Indies, that I may have my shawl. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• During his voyage in the East Indies he had laid in a supply of fireworks with which to celebrate the Fourth of July in a manner worthy an American captain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Any gap at your fireside on such a night--such a gap least of all--I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In his letters to Ferdinand and Isabella, he called the countries which he had discovered the Indies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In Asia particularly, in India or the East Indies, there may be hidden the most illuminating clues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the expectation of finding gold and silver mines, those first settlers, too, joined that of discovering a north-west passage to the East Indies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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