| Few others had his tenacity, his drive, his sheer bloody-mindedness, to get government ministers and foot-dragging babus to yield to his ideas. |
| Once upon a time the babus of Nayanjore were famous landholders. |
| All we babus talk English to show off,' said Hurree, flinging his shoulder-cloth jauntily. |
| But, cried the Oriental in him, babus do not travel far to retail compliments. |
| The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail. |
| I heard he had told his friends that the babus of Nayanjore never craved a boon. |
