Many of my friends had ventured to the new golconda, and I was fired with desire to follow the gleam.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
For, of course, when one hears of golconda one is bound to think it good, failing evidence to the contrary.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
When Gustave was a long distance away, Cherami continued to look after him, saying to himself: "There goes the pearl of friends; I don't know the pearls upon which Mesdemoiselles Laurette and Lucie are employed, but a real friend is worth far more than all the treasures of golconda, and is much rarer too.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock