Island once called Serendip, source of the word "serendipity"

Usage examples of ceylon.

At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North.

Ceylon tea spilled onto the wardroom table, but the astrophysicist appeared not to notice.

Burmah, Ceylon, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Hainan, Banka and Borneo.

Ceylon briskly rubbed the bloodroot paste over the red stain on her left cheek.

Ceylon and the Cingalese that was possible in the limited time at our disposal.

She steered better than the Ceylon however, for the Indiaman blundered right into the Bellone, forcing her too to cut.

Iphigenia just inside it, the Bellone, Minerve, Nereide and Ceylon Indiaman far over by Port South-East, and the charred wrecks of the Sirius and Magicienne in the lagoon.

CHAPTER IV THE RED SEA In the course of the day of the 29th of January, the island of Ceylon disappeared under the horizon, and the Nautilus, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, slid into the labyrinth of canals which separate the Maldives from the Laccadives.

Sumatra, which had been dragged out of place and stood for Ceylon in the Ptolemy maps, where its enormous size had no doubt prevented the proper charting of the Indian Peninsula.

Wherever the monuments of Buddhism are found, in India, Ceylon, or Ireland, we find the Cross: for Buddha or Boudh was represented to have been crucified.

He received professional tactical training in Ceylon and in the exclusive bordellos of Madagascar, where he lived for four months, learning from women of every race and culture.

Indian and European breeds Cave, inhabitants of, blind Centres of creation Cephalopodae, development of Cervulus Cetacea, teeth and hair Ceylon, plants of Chalk formation Charlock Checks to increase.

Shri Parananda, Solicitor General of Ceylon and an eminent writer upon and teacher of Yoga from the orthodox Shaivite standpoint, and Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya, the great English Adept, who was one of my earliest instructors in Magick and joined the Sangha in Burma in 1902, gave me my first groundings in mystical theory and practice.

Duncan, in his historical remarks on the coast of Malabar, speaking of the conversion of a king of that country (during the lifetime of Mahomet) says, on the authority of a native historian, "that it was effected by a company of dervises from Arabia, who touched at Crungloor or Cranganore (then the seat of government in Malabar) on their voyage to visit the Footstep of Adam, on that mountain in Ceylon which mariners distinguish by the name of Adam's Peak.

Cairo was occupied after a forced march, Arabi was captured and exiled to Ceylon, and the rebellion had been crushed in 25 days.