Wellington: You're late! Where the hell have you been for it, India?
Blackadder: Or Ceylon?
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Duel and Duality
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Past that was a wonderful green, orange, yellow, and purple banner, showing a lion holding a sword. It was the flag of Ceylon.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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It is therefore realised on all sides that however often Persia, or Egypt, or Java or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.