Bengalee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Literary Bengalee is not even an altogether indigenous growth.
From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
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)
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 Lever, Charles James
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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