Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumes
Literary usage of Rumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India by Afonso de Albuquerque, Walter de Gray Birch (1884)
"... on account of the news which he received concerning the coming of the rumes,
sent to beg the king to lend him his artillery, and what passed thereupon ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language: Containing the Accentuation by Joseph Bosworth (1838)
"rumes - ege, rumes - ige [rum roomy, sege island; spatiosa Ínsula. ... to rumes
ege retired into the minster a, Rumsey, Chr. 1085. Rúm-gál space exulting, ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"These were generally known in India and the Far East as "rumes" (Arab. Rumi, a
Greek); and Muslim opponents found in the East by the Portuguese thus ..."
4. A History of British India by William Wilson Hunter, Paul Ernest Roberts (1899)
"The cry the rumes are coming,' he wrote, ' menaced me at every step.'l The
magnitude of the danger explains and justifies the vastness of his designs to ..."
5. History of India by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Henry Miers Elliot, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1906)
"The cry the rumes are coming," he wrote, " menaced me at every step." The magnitude
of the danger explains and justifies the vastness of his designs to meet ..."
6. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar: In the Beginning of by Duarte Barbosa (1866)
"... to the Ottoman forces, as Egypt was not united to the Ottoman Empire till
later in 1C17. Traz este vem Noronha, cujo auspicio De Dio os rumes feros ..."
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