Peregrine Pultuney: Or, Life in India, Volume 3J. Mortimer, 1844 |
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Page 28
... punkah , smoothing his bed , and administering , almost every half hour , cooling saline draughts . It was marvellous how the naturally inert , sleep- loving Asiatic could forego his rest and his indolence for so many days together . At ...
... punkah , smoothing his bed , and administering , almost every half hour , cooling saline draughts . It was marvellous how the naturally inert , sleep- loving Asiatic could forego his rest and his indolence for so many days together . At ...
Page 72
... punkah — a little bit of a pokey cabin - no ser- vants , at least only one , which is as bad - a cursed stench all day long , of rum and bilge water , and Lord knows what besides - but that you must all stand round staring at , instead ...
... punkah — a little bit of a pokey cabin - no ser- vants , at least only one , which is as bad - a cursed stench all day long , of rum and bilge water , and Lord knows what besides - but that you must all stand round staring at , instead ...
Page 103
... that he had been a very great distance indeed , and en- tered some half dozen houses , with a most intolerable lare in them all , and a punkah in only one . Then they went to the club together , and Peregrine took PEREGRINE PULTUNEY . 103.
... that he had been a very great distance indeed , and en- tered some half dozen houses , with a most intolerable lare in them all , and a punkah in only one . Then they went to the club together , and Peregrine took PEREGRINE PULTUNEY . 103.
Page 104
... punkah , in the tolerably hot month of September , and to try at some supper in a low gallery running round the top of the ball - room , with windows about the size of a ship's scuttles , and no more air in the place than in a ship's ...
... punkah , in the tolerably hot month of September , and to try at some supper in a low gallery running round the top of the ball - room , with windows about the size of a ship's scuttles , and no more air in the place than in a ship's ...
Page 147
... punkah swinging to and fro . ” " It certainly is , " observed Peregrine , " and then the punkah is sure to spoil one's dinner . ” " Oh ! that's nothing - nothing at all . A pun- kah is a great abomination , because it puts one's hair ...
... punkah swinging to and fro . ” " It certainly is , " observed Peregrine , " and then the punkah is sure to spoil one's dinner . ” " Oh ! that's nothing - nothing at all . A pun- kah is a great abomination , because it puts one's hair ...
Common terms and phrases
afraid Akyab Arracan asked Peregrine Augusta Sweetenham aunt Barrackpore beautiful betrothed better boat buggy cabin Calcutta Captain Thornhill cheroot Chowringhee course cousin dance dear dearest deck deyvil dinner door Drawlincourt dress Dum-Dum exclaimed Peregrine eyes face fancy ball feelings fellow felt fever Fitz-simon gamboge girl gleton grine hand happy heard heart hero India Julia Poggleton Julian Jenks knew laugh long cornet looked Madras mamma married mind minutes Miss Poggleton Miss Sweeten Miss Sweetenham morning never observed Peregrine once Parkinson Peer Khan Pere Peregrine Pultuney Peregrine thought Peregrine took Peregrine's perhaps poor pray pretty punkah regrine rejoined replied Peregrine returned Peregrine round scarcely Seeva ship sick smile Splashington strange sure syces talk tell Thank thing told took tuney turned U. C. BERKELEY voice walked whilst wish word young gentleman young lady