Bengalee
Americannoun
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The one here noted was translated from the Bengalee by Dr. Marshman.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
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
The Bengalee sheep are described as 'small, lank, and thin, and the colour of three-fourths of each flock is black or dark gray.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
There is, too, a costly attention to the wishes of a guest, which will remind you of India, though I must own the Irish Brahmin has not the grand, high-bred air of the Bengalee.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
The superintendent was a most gentlemanly person, and so was his Bengalee servant.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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