suttee

"Again, my little refugee from suttee, I must question your authority in such matters."

A petition against Suttee also took place in 1829.

It was quite unlikely that he should be arrested for preventing a suttee.

A suttee woman is the heroic savior of her husband's eternity.

A large point of your failure to commit suttee.

There he bore witness to the practice of suttee, much to his distress.

Upon suttee, her personal belongings would, by law, go to the Brahmans.

"I didn't think widows burned themselves on the suttee any more."

Was there any element whatever of suttee in it?"

The practice of suttee was banned in 1829.

Rather, the subject is India itself - landscape, people, elephants, architecture, suttee and so on.

If you are bound and determined to commit suttee for Ray, so be it."

As British and Indian governments concluded, suttee does not fall within free exercise.

"A suttee," returned the general, "is a human sacrifice, but a voluntary one.

He issued his proclamation abolishing the Suttee in his district.

Close to the cremation-ground stand a few time-worn stones which are remembrances of the suttee.

"The practice is called suttee," Smoke said.

During one war when the fort was about to be captured all women including the wife of rajpurohit went suttee (jumped into fire).

He said: "I would have immolated myself as a suttee when Queenie died.

You were kind to me back then, and the promise you extracted from me influenced my decision not to submit to suttee.

She uses words like "suttee" in conversation, and she has a long list of other favorites: "Veritable belongs to me.

Sir Francis watched the procession with a sad countenance, and, turning to the guide, said, "A suttee."

"Hello Cass I thought we'd lost you doing the suttee act in sparky Brussels."

The spelling suttee is a phonetic spelling using the 19th century English orthography.