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 kobiraj carries a miniature dispensary about him.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
The storm it raised was intensified shortly afterwards by Lord Curzon's famous Convocation speech, into which the sensitive and emotional Bengalee hastened to read a humiliating indictment of the "nation."
From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
Dictionary of the Bengalee Language, vol. ii. part iii. p.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari
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