How To Use Godown In A Sentence
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his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride.
The Seattle Times
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The Sultan has a "godown" containing great treasures, concerning which he leads an anxious life – hoards of diamonds and rubies, and priceless damascened krises, with scabbards of pure gold wrought into marvelous devices and incrusted with precious stones.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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The city's skyline was alight with fires rising from timber godowns and warehouses.
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And then, of course, there are vestigeal words and expressions from British English that continue to be used in Indian English, such as "godown" and "brinjal"; or uniquely Indian formations such as "prepone" (which, by the way, has been admitted conditionally by the most recent editions of some standard British dictionaries).
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Beyond them stood port buildings and tiled godowns.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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And perhaps when everyone is treated with respect, the incidences will godown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
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All of whom would laugh out loud at the idea that revenues “always” go up when tax rates godown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:
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Now all but a few of the bumboats have gone and new life has been breathed into the old shophouses and godowns along the river banks.
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Raw and finished goods worth crores of rupees were destroyed as the rain water accumulated in the godowns.
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Beyond them stood port buildings and tiled godowns.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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A short time ago a fine young tiger was brought alive to Captain Shaw, and he ordered a proper cage to be made, in which to send him to England, telling Babu, the "double Hadji," to put it into the "godown" in its bamboo cage; but the man put it into the kitchen, and in the morning the cage was found broken into pieces, the kitchen shutters torn down, and the tiger gone!
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Those East End thoroughfares like East India Dock Road were full of commercial stores and warehouses and godowns.
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The Sultan has a “godown” containing great treasures, concerning which he leads an anxious life — hoards of diamonds and rubies, and priceless damascened krises, with scabbards of pure gold wrought into marvelous devices and incrusted with precious stones.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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The dumpers were parked in the company's godown, which is manned by security guards.
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
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He said the Federation had initiated a number of steps for construction of godowns and providing warehousing facilities to meet the demand for storage space.
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The investment cost can be retrieved by selling the buildings and godowns once the project is completed.
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Random checks on departmental stores and godowns will bring the skeletons out of the cupboard.
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He took us first to see his docks and godowns, resounding with the loud clangors of trade, and then through the grassy Kow-Loon plains, by a wide red road shadowed with banana-trees, to this lordly pavilion set on the crest of many flowering terraces – its pale-yellow outlines cut cameo-like against the burning blue of the equatorial sky.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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The engine of the goods train is shunting by the track near the godown.
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A received bill of lading is usually unacceptable to the bank or the importer as the goods may be left on the dock or in the godown for weeks or even months before actual shipment takes place.
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SG: I still want to know, as I asked in another thread, where did the notion come from that if we all pass the bill for our personal health consumption to the person to our left, the total cost will godown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government
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And now the Baboo passes into the godown, and receives from a score of servile _cicars_, glibbest of clerks, their several reports of the day's business.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
