Timour
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India was accustomed to visitors of the type of Alexander the Great, of Timour, Baber, Mahmoud of Ghuznee and Nadir Shah; but a peaceful progress of the foreign Heir to its Throne was another matter.
From The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins
Several days before, he wrote to a friend to say that if he got into the palace of Delhi, "the House of Timour will not be worth five minutes' purchase, I ween."
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
“See,” said Timour to the learned men of Aleppo, “I am but half a man, and yet I have conquered Irak, Persia, and the Indies.”
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
Before Timour died, he had had twenty-seven crowns upon his head.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
O divine Timour, will thy great soul soon revive?
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
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