 The painted streets alive with hum of noon, The traders cross-legged 'mid their spice and grain, The buyers with their money in the cloth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The shout to clear the road, the huge stone wheels, The strong slow oxen...  A Hand-book of Benares - Page 13by Arthur Parker - 1901 - 85 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1879 - 264 pages
...hum of noon, The traders cross-legged 'mid their spice and grain, The buyers with their money in the cloth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The...stone wheels, The strong slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The housewives... | |
 | 1880 - 1170 pages
...noon, The traders cross-legged 'mid their spice and grain, The buyers with (heir money in the cluth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The shout...stone wheels. The strong slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The housewives... | |
 | Daniel Pidgeon - 1882 - 396 pages
...hum of noon, The traders cross-legged mid their spice and grain, The buyers with their money in the cloth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The...stone wheels, The strong slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The housewives... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1893 - 464 pages
...hum of noon, The traders cross-legged 'mid their spice and grain, The buyers with their money in the cloth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The...stone wheels, The strong slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The housewives... | |
 | 1897 - 1368 pages
...hum of noon, The traders cross-legged 'mid their spice and grain, The buyers with their money in the cloth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The...stone wheels, The strong, slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamels sweating in the sun, The housewives... | |
 | Lucy Evangeline Guinness, Lucy E. Guinness-Kumm - 1898 - 266 pages
...Asla people — 'The traders cross-legged 'mid the spice and grain, The buyers with their money in the cloth, The war of words to cheapen this or that, The...stone wheels, The strong slow oxen and their rustling loads, The singing bearers with the palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The housewives... | |
 | John Ferguson - 1902 - 176 pages
...quote what is quite as applicable to the present day : — " Forth fared they by the common way afcot Seeing the glad and sad things of the town ; The painted...palanquins, The broad-necked hamals sweating in the sun, The house-wives bearing water from the well With balanced chatties, and athwart their hips The black-eyed... | |
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