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... look from a distance like so many gigantic warders posted as sentinels on the high battlements of some fortified castle . Two of these tanks are worthy of description . On the south - east skirt of the village lies the himságara , or ...
... look from a distance like so many gigantic warders posted as sentinels on the high battlements of some fortified castle . Two of these tanks are worthy of description . On the south - east skirt of the village lies the himságara , or ...
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... Look at him . Floods of perspiration are pouring in copious streams down his swarthy cheeks as he holds the plough by both his hands and scolds the bullocks at the top of his voice . The bullocks do not apparently like the idea of ...
... Look at him . Floods of perspiration are pouring in copious streams down his swarthy cheeks as he holds the plough by both his hands and scolds the bullocks at the top of his voice . The bullocks do not apparently like the idea of ...
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... look that he was the brother of Badan and Gayárám . His complexion was much darker than that of the other two , it was deep ebony , or rather , glossy Day and Martin ; indeed , he had the darkest complexion of anyone in the village ...
... look that he was the brother of Badan and Gayárám . His complexion was much darker than that of the other two , it was deep ebony , or rather , glossy Day and Martin ; indeed , he had the darkest complexion of anyone in the village ...
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... look at Badan's cottage . You enter Badan's house with your face to the east , through a small door of mango wood on the street , and you go at once to the uthán , or open yard , which is indispensable to the house of every peasant in ...
... look at Badan's cottage . You enter Badan's house with your face to the east , through a small door of mango wood on the street , and you go at once to the uthán , or open yard , which is indispensable to the house of every peasant in ...
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... look at the face of her husband's elder brothers , though with his younger brothers she is permitted to be quite ... looks and peevish answers . Málati , Badan's daughter , was a girl of about seven years of age . Though her complexion ...
... look at the face of her husband's elder brothers , though with his younger brothers she is permitted to be quite ... looks and peevish answers . Málati , Badan's daughter , was a girl of about seven years of age . Though her complexion ...
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Áduri Alanga Badan Badan's house bamboo bathing BELLES LETTRES Bengali body boys Bráhman bride bridegroom called caste CHAPTER charming child cloth gilt cow-dung cow-house cows Crown 8vo Dhumketu dhuti door Durgánagar English Extra fcap F. C. BURNAND Fairy father forehead FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE friends Gayárám ghát ghatak ghosts girl Globe 8vo goddess GOLDEN TREASURY Govin Govinda ground hand hát head Heir of Redclyffe hero Hindu hookah horoscope husband Illustrations Kálamánik Kánchanpur Kayastha Mádhava Málati MALL GAZETTE Mánik marriage mustard oil never night Ojhá ornaments paddy Padma Pál PALL MALL GAZETTE páṭhsálá peasant pedagogue plantain plough POEMS Princess of Thule quantity Ráma Rúpa reader rice Rupá's mother Sámanta Second Edition Shashṭhi sitting smoke story Sundari sweetmeats tank told tree turmeric Vardhamána verandah Vidhátá village volume wife woman women writing Yádumani yard young zamindár
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