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
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
Dictionary of the Bengalee Language, vol. ii. part iii. p.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari
The Hindostanee word for nurse is māmă-jee, or daee; the Bengalee, doodoo, or dye.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
The Christians of Malabar are a people living to themselves, and the great Bengalee nations never appear to have had the Gospel carried to them.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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