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Now, Regina, you can shut your eyes and imagine you are riding in a palankeen, as the Hindustanee ladies do when they go out for fresh air.
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
He, with others, had been carrying me about in a palankeen all day in the hot sun.
From From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry by William Haslam
On the 28th, the poor old fellow was brought off and hoisted on board in a palankeen.
From The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815 by William Kirk Dickson
He mounted his horse and rode by the side of her palankeen, with a pair of pistols in his holsters, and a good sword by his side.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
Yuch-lang sent her servants to bring a metal casket, furnished with a golden lock, and gave it to Shih-niang, who placed it in her palankeen without opening it.
From Eastern Shame Girl by Charles Georges Souli
