Indian princess

Usage examples of begum.

Their husbands were elderly grey-beards, their children grown men and women, and Aziza Begum was already grandmother to half a dozen plump brown babies.

But often during the long hot evenings, if Marcos were away for the night, Sabrina would visit the Gulab Mahal, and as the moon rose into the dusty twilight the women would sit out on the flat roofs of the zenana quarter looking out across the minarets and white roof-tops, the green trees and gilded cupolas of the evil, beautiful, fantastic city of Lucknow, while Aziza Begum cracked jokes and shook with silent laughter, stuffed her mouth with strange sweetmeats from a silver platter, or told long, long stories of her youth and of kings and princes and nobles of Oudh these many years in their graves.

The stories that Aziza Begum would tell by starlight, sitting on the flat rooftop overlooking the crowded city - stories of battle and intrigue and murder.

Thus Aziza Begum, telling the stories that made up the blood-stained history of the land.

Aziza Begum was there with two of her daughters and several serving-women.

Aziza Begum and Zobeida, she was afraid, and the tears that she would not let Sabrina see fell and blotted the written words.

When she had finished, the Begum and Zobeida lifted her, and with Juanita steadying her hand she signed her name to it.

Aziza Begum, seeing that she was awake, brought her the child once more.

Aziza Begum had been wont to tell of an evening seated on the flat roof-top of the zenana quarters and looking out across the beautiful, garish city of Lucknow.

These tales Winter would relate to the old Earl, sitting opposite him in a tall oak-backed chair, her small feet dangling well clear of the floor, and translating direct from the language of Zobeida and Aziza Begum so that they assumed a strongly Biblical flavour.

Presence has observed Bootea, the one called Gulab Begum, who is with Ajeet Singh?

The Gulab Begum would be convincing as a princess, the wife of the raja.

Sookdee, Ajeet Singh, and Hunsa, accompanied by twenty men, and Gulab Begum took the road, the Gulab travelling in an enclosed cart as befitted the favourite of a raja, and with her rode the wife of Sookdee as her maid.

Chief had spoken soft words of thee, and passed the order that thou wert Begum, that whatsoever thou desired was to be.

Colonel Saleur, a Frenchman, who led the infantry of the Begum Somroo.