Bengalee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But what will surprise you most is—that, although a child of pure English blood, she speaks very little English; but more Bengalee than perhaps you will find it convenient to construe.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
The Bengalee Magazine, devoted to the interests of Indian ladies, its editorials all from woman's pen, shows Asiatic advance.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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
"Whom have you got here, jemadar?" one of them asked, in Bengalee.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham
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