As he stood by the bed, motionless, silent, with the fixed regard of his light gray eyes on the sick man, he looked not unlike one of those sleek and emaciated birds which one sees standing on the bank of the ganges, waiting for the floating by of stray dead bodies.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
I say that this branch of Tamulians is isolated, because I am not able to show its continuity; the range of hill-country which gives rise to the rivers between the ganges and Mahanuddy being but imperfectly known.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
His magnetism, her husband's magnetism, that vast reservoir upon which floated the souls of many, like tiny lamps set adrift upon the bosom of the ganges by pious Mohammedan widows, must it ever be free to all but herself?
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker