Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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Page 5
... four , is much safer to depend on . No amount of rain , however unseasonable , can utterly overwhelm it , though it may impoverish the return , and it is often cut and garnished before the heaviest rain falls . There is also another ...
... four , is much safer to depend on . No amount of rain , however unseasonable , can utterly overwhelm it , though it may impoverish the return , and it is often cut and garnished before the heaviest rain falls . There is also another ...
Page 9
... four departments of the house towards the four cardinal points of the compass , neatly thatched and in good repair , the open courtyard between , as cleanly swept as that of the most thrifty housewife in England , the cow - house where ...
... four departments of the house towards the four cardinal points of the compass , neatly thatched and in good repair , the open courtyard between , as cleanly swept as that of the most thrifty housewife in England , the cow - house where ...
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... four or five years ' time , a real metamorphose takes place almost rivalling the imaginary transformations of any Eastern Fairy tale . The jhíl or bhíl is converted into a firm plain : the haunt of the wild Duck and of those myriads of ...
... four or five years ' time , a real metamorphose takes place almost rivalling the imaginary transformations of any Eastern Fairy tale . The jhíl or bhíl is converted into a firm plain : the haunt of the wild Duck and of those myriads of ...
Page 13
... four - footed game in some vast jungle where nature conceals her subjects from the hand of man , exerts his ingenuity to capture the creatures that serve for his precarious meal or his scanty covering . His arrow and his hooks are sharp ...
... four - footed game in some vast jungle where nature conceals her subjects from the hand of man , exerts his ingenuity to capture the creatures that serve for his precarious meal or his scanty covering . His arrow and his hooks are sharp ...
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... four good trunk roads , running from the sudder station every district towards the four principal points of the com- pass or to the neighbouring stations , kept constantly in order by judicious repairs made at the close of the rains ...
... four good trunk roads , running from the sudder station every district towards the four principal points of the com- pass or to the neighbouring stations , kept constantly in order by judicious repairs made at the close of the rains ...
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