howdah

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• Davichand nodded a dismissal to Chet, put on his dark glasses, and began to climb up into the howdah. TANK OF SERPENTS
• And so the procession started, and for a while discomfort set acutely in, for the movement of a howdah is short and jerky, and it takes some time both to adjust oneself to it and to lose the feeling that the elephant sooner or later -- and probably sooner -- must trip and fall. Roving East and Roving West
• A few hours before the onset of what is supposed to be a "multi-day" and "life-threatening" blizzard, over one hundred Chicagoans gathered to sample Chicago's best seafood chowders at the Columbia Yacht Club's Chowdah Fest. Caroline O'Donovan: At the Chowdah Fest
• In front of the howdah on the beast's skull sat a mahout, feet tucked up behind the animal's flapping ears. TANK OF SERPENTS
• The howdah was a wooden structure with a gold and gilt roof, four pillars, a broad seat strewn with comfortable cushions and bolsters, thin muslin curtains enfolding the whole. Shadow Princess
• In front of the howdah on the beast's skull sat a mahout, feet tucked up behind the animal's flapping ears. TANK OF SERPENTS
• Due to space constraints, the museum here has had to make do with its own intricately carved gilded silver howdah and an even more impressive 15-foot-long coach of 1815 made entirely of silver. Conspicuous Consumption
• The umpire of the game oversees the play from a wooden howdah (bench type seat) on the back of the largest elephant.
• Riding a six-tusked elephant on a howdah of lotus flowers, the huge tenth-century statue of Bodhisattva Puxian stands in its own hall and is among the most revered shrines on Emei.
• To have called the pub the Elephant and Howdah would have consternated the denizens of the district. Your Letters: Military Suicides; Michael Caine