How To Use Ceylon In A Sentence
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The Ceylon paratha can also come filled with mincemeat and a topping of egg, if you want to make a meal of it.
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We cannot forget that, persecuted by conquer-ing Brahmans, and expelled from India, it found, at last, a shelter in Ceylon where it still flourishes like the legendary aloe, which is said to blossom once in its lifetime and then to die, as the root is killed by the exuberance of blossom, and the seeds cannot produce anything but weeds.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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“To those red-blooded Americans who signed up to fight somebody and arrived in Ceylon to find themselves pinioned beneath P Division directives, the SEAC situation was just another form of British tyranny—frustration without representation,” she wrote.
A Covert Affair
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The school of Buddhism now professed in Ceylon, Burma and Siam is often called Sinhalese and (provided it is not implied that its doctrines originated in Ceylon) the epithet is correct.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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The only difference is, that while in Ceylon the cinnamon, when ready for market, is packed in "gunny" or canvass bags, in Java it is put into boxes, made of wood free from any smell or flavor which would injure the spice.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Stapler, of the recruiting ketch Merry; Darby Shryleton, planter from Tito-Ito; Peter Gee, a half-caste Chinese pearl-buyer who ranged from Ceylon to the Paumotus, and Alfred Deacon, a visitor who had stopped off from the last steamer.
A GOBOTO NIGHT
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But how did that fit in with the political pacts that were being elaborated in Ceylon?
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It was on the first of such voyages in 1979 that he located the Ceylon frogmouth, a bird that had not been spotted for about 40 years.
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It also features a combination of Brazilian rosewood and Ceylon satinwood veneers.
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Ultimately, then, Song of Ceylon imparts the message that nature and native traditions can coexist harmoniously with modernity.
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Nigardu_, an ancient Sanskrit Catalogue of Plants, the true cinnamon is spoken of as _Sinhalam_, a word which signifies "belonging to Ceylon" to distinguish it from cassia, which is found in Hindustan.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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[Footnote 1: A species of one of the suffruticose _Acanthacea_ which grows abundantly in the mountain ranges of Ceylon.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Rubies were found in Burma and Ceylon, topaz, beryl, garnet, amethyst and pearl in Ceylon and Southern India, and spinels and deep blue sapphires in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
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French Sinologue, has laid me under a similar obligation for access to unpublished passages relative to Ceylon, in his translation of the great work of HIOUEN THSANG; in his translation of the great work of HIOUEN
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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An example of Armstrong's entrepreneurial skills was evident when he played an exhibition game in Ceylon.
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At the time the regiment was garrisoned in Ceylon we know that at least two Athy men were in the regiment's ranks.
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The Ceylon tree nymph is a beautiful silvery white butterfly (2) and is the largest member of the Danaidae family in Sri Lanka.
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M. Stanislas Julien discovered in the _Pien-i-tien_, ( "a History of Foreign Nations," of which there is a copy in the Imperial Library of Paris,) a collection of fragments from Chinese authors who had treated of Ceylon; but as the intention of that eminent Sinologue to translate them [1] has not yet been carried into effect, they are not available to me for consultation.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Cochin oil; the raw material of this kind not being, like the copperah generally in Ceylon, subjected to the action of fire, the product is finer, and fetches a better price in the London market.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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-- India -- Ceylon -- The End. I hope these hasty notes, so hurriedly and scantily given, may have interested my readers enough to secure their company for one more globe-trot, which shall be rushed through in order to bring these reminiscences to a close.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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It also features a combination of Brazilian rosewood and Ceylon satinwood veneers.
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Ceylon; and the Mohammedan travelers speak of ambergris swallowed by whales, who are made sick and regorge it.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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It is most probable that the stone described by Marco Polo was not a ruby, but an amethyst, which is found in large crystals in Ceylon, and which modern mineralogists believe to be the "hyacinth" of the ancients.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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By Europeans they are commonly called cheetahs; but the true cheetah, the hunting leopard of India (_Felis jubata_), does not exist in Ceylon.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Ceylon is a braue Iland, very fruitfull and faire; but by reason of continuall warres with the king thereof, all things are very deare: for he will not suffer any thing to be brought to the castle where the Portugals be: wherefore often times they haue great want of victuals.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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China, dine contentedly upon horse-steak in Paris, swallow their beef uncooked in Germany, maintain an unwinking gravity over the hottest curry in India, smoke their hookah gratefully in Turkey, mount an elephant in Ceylon, and, in short, conform gracefully to any native custom, however strange it may appear to him.
Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.
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For my own part, no instance came to my knowledge in Ceylon of a mygale attacking a bird; but PERCIVAL, who wrote his account of the island in
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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I am sure (if you get newspapers in Ceylon) jump into your mind the moment I mention the word subaltern, and I may as well tell you that in associating me with any one of these deeds at the present time you are entirely wrong.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917
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Ceylon they proceed to Siam, and thence to Hong-Kong, where they drop anchor in the offing, and by a special custom the cargo is sold and paid for in sycee silver before disfreighting, and the bullion is in the safe of the huge smuggler, although the opium has not yet been removed.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Its flavor is sharper and less subtle, and the bark is thicker than that of the Ceylon cinnamon tree.
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Gentle and reflective in tone, the anthology reveals the heart and mind of a citizen of an island--Sri Lanka, once known as Ceylon--which most of us think of as beautiful, exotic, and almost unreachably remote.
Yesterday is another country
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Bennet, in his work on "Ceylon and its Capabilities," (1843), states that sago is procured from the granulated pith of the talipot palm,
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.
A Covert Affair
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Konnyaku is a perennial plant of the arum family, said to be indigenous to India and Ceylon.
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CEYLON MOSS (_Gracelaria_, or _Gigartina, lichenoides_), a small and delicate fucus, is well known for the amylaceous property it possesses, and the large proportion of true starch it furnishes.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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She caught a ride with them in a jeep to their camp, which was located only six miles outside Kandy but ended up being a bumpy, half-hour trip on narrow, crowded roads full of Ceylonese drivers devoid of traffic sense.
A Covert Affair
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Its people may be referred to as Ceylonese n. or adj. or Sri Lankans.
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But hardly had a few years passed before the German cousin bobbed up at the edge of the desert and the shores of the Nile; and now the travel was to Ceylon, India and Japan, till at length the Englishman had to confess with a sigh of resignation that nowhere on the earth was it possible for him to escape his fate in the shape of a German.
The Prussian Mind
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Speaking of the “chank” shell, that is the name given in the East Indies to certain varieties of the voluta gravis, fished up by divers in the Gulf of Manaar, on the northwest coast of Ceylon.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
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Mountbatten had decided to shift his headquarters from New Delhi to Ceylon, moving from the heart of India to the pear-shaped island at its southernmost tip.
A Covert Affair
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The Camellia sinensis tea plant is native to China and commercially produced in tropical and subtropical regions, primarily China, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
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_cabook_ of Ceylon would certainly yield very unexpected contributions to an explanation of the way in which the sand and rolled-stone _osar_ of Scandinavia have first arisen.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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_A. maximum_, the great winged amomum, produces the Java cardamoma of the London market, and is also grown extensively in Ceylon, the
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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I made a few changes -- a sub for the buttermilk, which I was out of, salt because my butter was unsalted, vanilla because if my great great great (whew!) grandma had had access to vanilla I am sure she would have used it, Ceylon cinnamon (not so much a change as a decision) because its fruitiness better compliments the strawberry.
Sugar High Fridays: The Test Of Time: Great Grandma Kelly's Jam Cake
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-- Since the first edition was published, I have been told by a late officer of the Ceylon Government, that many years ago, what remained of the Dutch records were removed from the record-room of the Colonial Office to the cutcherry of the government agent of the western province: where some of them may still be found.]
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Petronella had assumed her mother's maiden name in order to inherit her mother's estate and had accompanied her father to Ceylon.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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BCE : India - The Aryan Hindus occupy Ceylon.
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Whenever England visited Australia, Radio Ceylon relayed the live commentaries of Radio Australia.
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The various other families of aculeate _Hymenoptera_ are doubtless more abundant than the species recorded indicate, and it may be safely reckoned that the parasitic _Hymenoptera_ in Ceylon far exceed one thousand species in number, though they are yet only known by means of about two dozen kinds collected at Kandy by Mr. Thwaites.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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In Ceylon , for instance, he helped restore the legitimate ruler to the throne.
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They had established their rule on the coast of Ceylon and had intervened with military force in dynastic disputes in Java, eventually making the island's rulers tributaries of the company.
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Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.
A Covert Affair
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They have long enjoyed the uses of political power and hark back to a past when they were the rousing nationalist force behind Ceylonese kings.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
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This instrument is called a chark, and is still used in South Africa,31 in Australia, in Sumatra, and among the Veddahs of Ceylon.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
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After visiting Ceylon, Dorrington settled near London, and published a misleading account of allegedly exotic colonial hard-ships as an orchardist, which Stephens in Australia exposed and derided.
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The returned value of the copperah or kernels exported from Ceylon, as entered in the Custom House books, is --
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health.
Henry’s Demons
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Bangladesh was part of India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) was controlled by India which was a part of the British Commonwealth with a British Minister (called a protectorate).
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Clough translated it in 1834, and Hardy has given an interesting summary of it in his Eastern Monarchism; but neither the text nor any complete translation is readily accessible, and I have therefore thought that this edition might possibly be acceptable to those who desire information respecting the practice of Buddhism in Ceylon, where, as is well pointed out by Mr. Childers, in his Pli Dictionary, (s.v. Nibbnam, p. 272, note), Buddhism retains almost its pristine purity.
The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies. III. The Order. Reprinted from a paper by J.F. Dickson, B. A., in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1874.
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In Ceylon, for instance, the leaves of the talipot; in India, the leaves of the palm (with which they commonly covered their houses,) were used for books.
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
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Amravati in the south, and in Ceylon at Ruanwalli and Tuparamaya.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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To the south of the Ganges was the enormous mass of the Indian peninsula stretching out into the ocean, with the fabled island of Taprobane Ceylon or Sri Lanka just off the southeastern coast.
Alexander the Great
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Pinfold, a middle-aged writer living in the country, goes abroad because he is already in poor health, but from the moment he enters his cabin on a ship called the Caliban, bound for Ceylon, he hears voices denigrating him.
Henry’s Demons
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Tea planters for India and Ceylon.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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Ceylon, of the remains of what may correctly be termed stupendous works; and the date of the construction of which, as regards India, is in many cases prehistoric.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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The Europeans in Ceylon know it by the name of the "moose deer;" and in all probability the terms _musk_ and _moose_ are both corruptions of the
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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Ceylon’salmost time-lapse shots of falling faces and collapsing moods have aneorealist patience that’s seldom seen anymore, even in neorealism’slatter-day descendents.
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There is a great variety of rats in Ceylon, from the tiny shrew to the large "bandicoot".
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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Dr. Bala was born September 12, 1926 in Sandilipay, in a Northern Province of Sri Lanka, where he excelled in his studies, and entered medical school, and later joined the faculty of the University of Ceylon, before contracting tuberculous, an illness that almost killed him, and took several years to treat.
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Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus Phasianidae Ceylon junglefowl Gallus lafayetii Capitonidae Yellow-fronted barbet Megalaima flavifrons An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
Deccan thorn scrub forests
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
A Covert Affair
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There are only three institutions with the title pontifical: (1) The Pontifical Seminary of Kandy, Ceylon; (2) The Pontifical Seminary of Scutari (Collegium
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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I once more embarked in an English steamer, the "Braganza," of 350 horse power, that left Singapore for Ceylon on the 7th of October.
A Woman's Journey Round the World
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It tastes like betel leaf, I suppose, but it goes down easily, like a glamorous form of baby porridge shipped in from the kitchens of old Ceylon.
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He joined the Royal Air Force as a medical officer and served in India, Burma, and Ceylon, where he encountered smallpox, plague, poliomyelitis, typhus, anthrax, malaria, and dysentery.
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The jackfruit is a fairly rapid grower, reaching 58 ft (17.5 m) in height and 28 in (70 cm) around the trunk in 20 years in Ceylon.
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CEYLON: The Ambustala dagoba now marks the spot of the meeting.
Travels in the Far East
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In September 1945 I was a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in Ceylon when I was sent to Sumatra with a naval landing party to Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, the principal city in the northern part of the island.
