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" Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments, while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable... "
Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta ... - Page 373
by Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1828
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The American Quarterly Review, Volume 4

1828 - 732 pages
...fruiterer's or confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the children at their meals. Faqueer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and semling out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments,...
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The Extractor; or Universal repertorium of literature, science ..., Volume 1

1829 - 762 pages
...fruiterer's or confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the children at their meals. Faquir's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned...discordant instruments, while religious mendicants of every 1 1 miliiu sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks,...
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View in the East, with historical and descriptive illustrations

Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 pages
...clinging to all the roofs and little projections of the temples, and putting their impertinent heads or hands into every fruiterer's or confectioner's shop,...offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs, and disgusting attitudes of penance can shew, literally line...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 5

1835 - 284 pages
...fruiterer's or confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the children at their meals. Fakir houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned...offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, filth, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs, and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical ..., Volume 4

James Bell - 1836 - 690 pages
...fruiterer's or confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the children at their meals. Fakeer's houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned...and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant in•trumenU ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity...
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The British Colonial Library, [comprising a Popular and Authentic ...

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 pages
...little projections of the temples, putting their impertinent heads and hands into every fruiterer's and confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the...houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned * Narrative of a Journey, &c. vol. i. pp. 272, 273. country becomes more elevated, and in the Bundlecund...
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History of the British Possessions in the East Indies, Volume 1

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 392 pages
...little projections of the temples, putting their impertinent heads and hands into every fruiterer's and confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the...houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned * Narrative of a Journey, &c. vol. i. pp. 272, 273. country becomes more elevated, and in the Bundlecund...
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...and hardly to be kicked up (any blows, indeed, given them, must be of the gentlest kind, or woe be to the profane wretch who braves the prejudices of this...out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, viyals, and other discordant instruments; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering...
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London Saturday Journal..., Volume 3

1840 - 430 pages
...little projections of the temples, putting their impertinent heads and hands into every fruiterer's and confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the children at their meals. Faqueers' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pages
...little projections of the temples, putting their impertinent heads and Lands into every fruiterer's and confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the...occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending forth an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, beyals, and other discordant instruments ; while...
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