Bengalee
Americannoun
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He spent three years in Calcutta studying Hindostanee and Persian, and afterward, Bengalee and Sanscrit.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
Then Mrs. Judson herself fell ill of a fever, and remained for two months unable to visit her husband, both of them owing all their food to the exertions of their good Bengalee cook.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge
What the Italian is to the Englishman, what the Hindoo is to the Italian, what the Bengalee is to other Hindoos, that was Nuncomar to other Bengalese.
From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
A common Bengalee cook will do nothing but the simple business of cooking: But he seemed to forget his cast, and almost his own wants, in his efforts to serve us.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
He is dimly remembered as the author of a grammar of the Bengalee language and of a work on Gentoo laws translated from the Persian.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
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