Lexicographical Neighbors of Golcondas
Literary usage of Golcondas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade (1918)
"golcondas." Indian diamonds were noteworthy for their magnificent steely ...
Such diamonds are sometimes called "golcondas" because one of the mining ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1898)
"The golcondas were to nv.et the Poonah Horse in the final, and were defeated by
them after a splendid game. The tactics of the Poonah horsemen were splendid ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"... experiences—Russia possessing enormous tracts of arable land still unbroken
by the plough, and golcondas of mineral wealth still waiting for the miner. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... and from windfalls from such golcondas as the Premier mine, it is to be hoped
that money will be obtained for the large capital expenditure of which the ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"These worthy people see glimpses of golcondas in stocks that are so low that they
must certainly be cheap, since they promise their purchaser thirty per ..."
6. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"The riot of graft and corruption that has marked American municipalities since
great corporations, organized to acquire those golcondas of the civilized ..."
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