Bengalee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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No consideration will induce the pious Bengalee to hurt or even control one of these consecrated animals.
From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by Vasey, George
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 Foxe, John
A Bengalee gentleman enjoys ordinary hotel fare with apparently none to interfere with his liberties.
From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
Had I discoursed to her in Bengalee she would have comprehended me no more imperfectly.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion
Your Bengalee mounts defences of tattees and punkahs that cool down a hot wind, or whistle air into presence in a trice.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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