How To Use Palanquin In A Sentence
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‘In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,’ the priest says.
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Yashodabai says that once the grandmother was said to have kicked open and broken down the door of the palanquin that had been sent to carry her to her parents' house because the palanquin bearer did not open the door fast enough.
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The gods are brought out of their temples and paraded down the streets in elaborately carved palanquins rolled along by four men.
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Inside the palanquin, sunk on pink silk cushions, was Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras, president of the settlements on the Coromandel Coast, official of the mighty East India Company, which ruled nearly a fifth of the world.
THE DIAMOND
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Zari parasols, richly caparisoned elephants, glittering gold-embossed palanquins and symbols like Mount Meru and the mighty Garuda became royal symbols of Indonesia.
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Outside there would be gorgeously caparisoned elephants and horses with rich housings, palanquins and teams of palanquin bearers, four in hand coaches, and subsequently Rolls Royces and Daimlers.
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It is a one - horse palanquin, said the old gentleman, who was a wag in his way.
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In his songs, he has pointed towards a dream when he shall be carried in a palanquin.
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Other elites — including samurai, nobles, village headmen, the wealthy — traveled by palanquin aka litter.
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The temple dates from 1856 and every year the statue is carried by a palanquin around the neighborhood and other deities are brought to him.
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In a palanquin borne by four servants sit a rich man's three daughters, the youngest dressed in her bridal sari, her little hands painted with red lac dye, her hair oiled and set.
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He alone would have been carried across the immense first courtyard in a palanquin on the shoulders of eunuchs.
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He was carried through the streets by a team of bearers on a palanquin, which still survives at Powis Castle in Wales.
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Ahead of them in the procession, eight bearers carried a palanquin carrying only the piece of paper announcing the results.
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That way, there's still plenty of room in the palanquin.
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Tegh Bahadur was carried by Mother Nanaki in a palanquin.
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Beneath the Virgin's palanquin is laid an extraordinary carpet of colored sawdust, arranged into artistic and inventive patterns.
On the edge of Mexico City: barefoot monks in a national park
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In the evenings, exquisite bronze replicas of the deities travel bedecked in palanquins to bestow blessings on the townsfolk.
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The grandees, when they appear abroad, are carried in a kind of palanquin, which is borne on two negroes 'shoulders.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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The pagoda, as he persisted in calling the palanquin, had been left standing on the spot where we last saw it.
The Room in the Dragon Volant
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The Emperor was carried on his opulent palanquin across the centre bridge along the north-south axis on his journey through his city.
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Loulou's father, so he told me, had been a palanquin bearer.
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The flashes of lightning showed that the cortege was the object of a most determined attack, which sought to make its way to the palanquin of the princess.
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
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A richly decorated palanquin, escorted by a band of priests and devotees, carried in the Kumari, dressed in her gold and scarlet finery.
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Garun's palanquin was set down beside the black stone throne.
WATER BOOK ONE: ASCENSION
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Each time we moved from one district to another, there would be an argument over whose turn it was to carry the palanquin.
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A palanquin, breast plates, guns, cannon balls, daggers, swords, head gear and knives were on display along with old and new age stone tools.
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Garun's palanquin was set down beside the black stone throne.
WATER BOOK ONE: ASCENSION
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We passed the odd pony trap and the four men with their palanquin.
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The Fort is a treasure house of priceless relics - miniatures, paintings, howdahs, palanquins and arms - all displayed with an astute eye for aesthetics and history.
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The best route to them is from Bombay to Honaurre by sea, _via_ Kawai, and on to Old Gairsoppa by river boat and palanquin to the "Jog," as the special points of interest (the "Falls") are called by the Kanarese.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
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Aged devotees who were unable to endure the strain of the hike were carried on a simple palanquin made of cane that could be purchased for US $17 in Pamba.
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Bonzes march in front, dressed in robes of black gauze, having much the appearance of Catholic priests; the principal object of interest of the procession, the corpse, comes last, laid in a sort of little closed palanquin, which is daintily pretty.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The jinrikisha is the common mode of conveyance, though the palanquin is perhaps nearly as much used.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
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This is where palanquins from different villages are brought to pay homage to Parshuram.
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‘In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,’ the priest says.
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Otherwise, had I gone abroad in the robes of the Tatrix, we would have been encumbered by guards and crowds; we would have had to travel in a palanquin; we would have been forced to tolerate the annunciatory drums and trumpets, and put up with all the noisy, ostentatious, dreary panoply of office.
Kajira Of Gor
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When the sacred palanquin arrived, each boy would take his turn to perform before it, holding it up for a good quarter of an hour.
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Chinese prefer a traditional ‘three box’ sedan shape for cars, not unlike the shape of the shoulder-carried palanquins in which the nobility travelled in previous centuries, Shyr said.
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From antique beds and sofas to ornate umbrella stands and Goan palanquins, this 227-item auction was crammed with exquisite pieces of furniture for the discerning.
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The kago is a sort of palanquin borne on the shoulders of four stout men, the path being impracticable even for mules; but were it less steep and wider, the Japanese have no mules.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
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The road from Dearsley's pay-shed to the cantonment was a narrow and uneven one, and, traversed by three very inexperienced palanquin-bearers, one of whom was sorely battered about the head, must have been a path of torment.
Indian Tales
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There it was, a palanquin being carried by four men, all powerfully built and in immaculate robes of ivory colour.
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A favourite mode of travelling in China and other countries of the East is by palanquin, which is a kind of wooden box, about twice as long as it is high, with shutters and other appliances to make it comfortable.
Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young
