dak bungalow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ludhiana and its dak bungalow, provides refreshments and a three hours' siesta beneath the cooling and seductive punkah, besides an interesting and instructive tete-a-tete with a Eurasian civil officer spending the day here.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
A mile west of the town, I am told, is the Rohilcund Railway, the dak bungalow, and the bungalow of an English Sahib.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
For the first time it is cool enough to sleep without the services of the punkah-wallah, and not a soul remains about the dak bungalow after nightfall.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
Travelling leisurely, and resting often, for thirty miles, the afternoon brings me to the small town of Peepli, where a dak bungalow provides food and shelter of a certain kind.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
The rain ceases, and, with water flinging from my wheel, I seek the civil lines and the dak bungalow three miles farther down the road.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
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