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A source of great wealth (especially a mine)
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golconda
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Golconda is an oil painting on canvas by Belgian surrealist René Magritte , painted in 1953. It is usually housed at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The piece depicts a scene of "raining men", nearly identical to each other dressed in dark overcoats ...
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Population (2000): 726 Housing Units (2000): 418 Land area (2000): 0.564097 sq. miles (1.461005 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.026245 sq. miles (0.067973 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.590342 sq. miles (1.528978 sq. km) FIPS code: 30133 Located within: Illinois ...
Usage examples of golconda.
Half Golconda, any fraction of Golconda, was an open confession of his value and his guilt.
Twice the light of the patrol passed along the judases: his ideas grew confused, rising and falling like the waves of the sea, Golconda and Golgotha merging into one another: Diana's name and image appeared in his mind.
Of course Golconda was not only a general term for wealth: it was the name of the Great Mogul's diamond-mine.
I am no more greedy than the next man, but gold, whether in the form of the legends of Golconda and the 'Forty-niners, or a sovereign piece to clink in one's pocket, has always fascinated me.
The king of Narsinga, whose capital at a subsequent period was Bijanagar or Golconda, ruled at this period not only the Telinga and Karnata country, but all the coast of Coromandel, as far southward as Cape Komari, or Comorin.