The Euphrates valley from Hit to Balisis a tract of no great value, except as a line of communication.
It is situated on the southern route from Balis to Aleppo, and is nearly equally distant between the two places.
The Bants are divided into a number of balis (exogamous septs), which are traced in the female line, i.
There is a popular belief that these are sub-divisions of the twenty balis which ought to exist according to the Aliya Santana system (inheritance in the female line).
As examples of balis among the Bants, the following may be cited:-- Bellathannaya, jaggery.
The girl's mother holds over her head a plantain leaf, and four women belonging to different balis (septs) pour water thereon from the vessels.
The Bakudas are said to resent the application of that name to them, and call themselves Aipattukuladavaru, or the people of fifty families, presumably from the fact that they are divided into fifty balis or families.
These balis are said to be named after deceased female ancestors.
The Holeyas have, like other classes of South Canara, a number of balis (exogamous septs), and persons of the same bali cannot intermarry.
The caste has numerousbalis (septs), which are evidently borrowed from the Bants and Billavas.
The Moyilis have adopted the manners and customs of the Bants, and have the samebalis (septs) as the Bants and Billavas.
Balis was traveling in the direction of Viamede, intending to call there too, but having several patients to visit on the way, did not arrive until the late breakfast of its master and mistress was over.
Balis told me the ball glanced from the bone, passed under the nerve and severed the humeral artery.
Balis had his own suspicions as he ripped up the coat sleeve, bared the swollen limb, and carefully dressed the wound; but kept them to himself.
Balis had taken with him to Madison the blood-stained coat of Jackson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
