Hard by this place the road or rut turned by great gardens, very cool and pleasant, full of tombs and black-faced monkeys who quarrelled among the tombs, and shut in from the sun by gigantic banians and mango trees.
Forgive me, but I am looking at the shipping outside the verandah, at the Chinamen in the streets, and at the lazy, languid Englishmen in banians and white jackets stretched on the cane chairs, and these things are not nice.
The Banians carry the water of the Ganges to the distance of many hundred miles, affirming that it never corrupts, though kept for any length of time.
The country peculiarly abounds in cattle, as the Banians never kill any, neither do they sell any for being slaughtered.
The inhabitants, who are mostly Banians or Hindoos, are poor and beggarly, through the long absence of the court.
The Banians kill nothing, and are said to be divided into more than thirty different casts, that differ somewhat among them in matters of religion, and may not eat with each other.
Tell me that the banians of English gentlemen, dependants on them at Calcutta, were the farmers throughout, and I believe I need not tell your Lordships for whose benefit they were farmers.
Calcutta banians were the farmers of almost the whole.
Banians had anticipated the period of their power in premature advances of money, and have ever after obtained the entire dominion over their nominal masters.
The Banians were forced to labour hard to barricade all the streets of the city, great guards were stationed at the gates, and some cannon were drawn from the castle.
We also find that he made a regulation that no farmers should rent more than a lac of rupees; but at the same time we find his banians holding several farms to more than that amount.
It happens frequently that the party comes back nearly empty handed, but it is the Banians that lose, and the Arabs are not much displeased.
Glancing back from a short distance, I saw the three banians in close colloquy and eagerly gesticulating.
The same authority states that "it is the opinion of the Banians and Arabs, that Aden will regain her former commercial renown.
Your Lordships must distinguish the banians of the British servants in subordinate situations and the banians who are such to persons in higher authority.
The name still continues, when the functions of the banians are totally altered.
Thus the Supreme Court of Justice, the destined corrector of all abuses, becomes a collateral security for that abominable tyranny exercised by the moneyed banians over Europeans as well as the natives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
