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" The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathingplaces along the Ganges, were worn every day by the... "
The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times - Page 4
by Matthew Atmore Sherring - 1868 - 388 pages
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India on the March

Alden Hyde Clark - 1922 - 222 pages
...Macaulay says about Benares, and I am sure you will feel that it applies to what you are seeing today. "The traveller could scarcely make his way through...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges...
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Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including AllBritish ...

1924 - 1010 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges...
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Essays of the Past and Present

Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges...
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Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877

James Kennedy - 1993 - 428 pages
...was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies,«and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds....press of holy mendicants and not less holy bulls. The firoad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing places...
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Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians: Including Lord Macaulay's ...

William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1999 - 398 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps, which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,...
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Tales and Sketches: 1843-1849

Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into thai labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 40; Volumes 74-75

1842 - 576 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights of steps which descended from these swarming haunts to the bathing-places along the Ganges,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 44

1842 - 574 pages
...of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of loftly alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred...clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make nis way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and stately flights...
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Warren Hastings: King of the Nabobs

Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. 20 The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants and not less holy...
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