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Example sentences for "ghat"

Lexicographically close words:
gharry; ghastlier; ghastliest; ghastliness; ghastly; ghats; ghaut; ghee; gherkin; gherkins
  1. An hour and a quarter brought me again to the Laee-panee, and three hours and a half to Laee Mookh: from this place to Jingsha Ghat is scarcely an hour's walk.

  2. The road up to the ghat is visible, as well as the Choky and a fort, with a small sheet of cultivation to the eastward.

  3. Left the Ghat about 9, and proceeded over the same difficult ground down the Karam until we arrived at Laee Mookh.

  4. In the ghat Capparis as before, Lycioides, Chamaerops, Andropog.

  5. Moosmai is, apres tout I will venture to say, the king of the falls between Terrya Ghat and Ranee Godown.

  6. Most of the Singphos subject to our control are located between Kujoo Ghat and the Booree Dihing, as well as on the banks of this river and in the valley of the Tenga Panee.

  7. At 500 feet, Dodonaea: this is very common, and being very green, gives the ghat a pretty appearance.

  8. We reached the village Ghat about four in the afternoon, but our people arrived very little before six o'clock.

  9. They depend upon the plains for their support and supplies, and this is good management since rice at Terrya Ghat is sold at 70 or 80 seers a rupee.

  10. The ghat is rather wide throughout, and all the features are the same as the Bolan Pass, slate rocks most common.

  11. They sat down at the ghat and began to scour their vessels.

  12. They were laughing at the father-in-law's weakness, and as they approached the ghat failed to observe a Government budgerow anchored there.

  13. I shall find him, even though I am compelled to journey from Ghat to Mequinez, or from the Tsad to Algiers.

  14. On each ghat are several raised platforms, having large sunshades, where men, their legs half curled under them, are sitting.

  15. He will ride by way of the ghat between the temple of Siva and the place where the dead Afghan kept his camels.

  16. On the day following my descent from Mount Stuart, an Odde cooly woman was killed on the ghat road by a solitary tusker.

  17. Two miles and a half from Mount Stuart, on the ghat road to Sethumadai.

  18. The Ghat murders, caused by the carrying of the dying to the Ganges or a sacred river, and their treatment there, continue to this day, although Lord Lawrence attempted to interfere.

  19. Just below it, but outside of Serampore, are the deserted temple of Bullubpoor and the Ghat of the same name, a fine flight of steps up which thousands of pilgrims flock every June to the adjoining shrine and monstrous car of Jagganath.

  20. She remembers the neighbourhood, and Gharetty Ghat and House in Sir Eyre Coote's time (1783).

  21. The export and import warehouses were built against the south curtain in 1741 and would have followed the line of Koila Ghat Street.

  22. The town lay on the main road, which, at this point, was removed from the river by many miles, else he would have ridden to the ghat and sent a message to Hossein Beg in order to make sure of the safety of the friendly ryot.

  23. The real pukka ghat (the bathing place, built of bricks and lime) was about 200 yards from the water of the main stream, with a stretch of sand between.

  24. After a game of football on the school grounds we sometimes used to come and sit on the pukka ghat for an hour and return home after nightfall.

  25. The boy who had challenged the ghost, Ram Lal, was to join us at the pukka ghat at 8 P.

  26. A burning ghat is the place where dead bodies of Hindoos are cremated).

  27. In it I proceeded the next day to Mirzapore, descending a steep ghat of the Bind hills by an excellent road, to the level plains of the Ganges.

  28. On the following day we visited Rajghat, a steep ghat or pass leading up the cliff to Rotas Palace, a little higher up the river.

  29. The Touaricks of Ghat conduct the merchants from Ghadames to Ghat, and the Touaricks of Aheer the merchants from Ghat to Aheer, and so of the rest of the route, as far as Kanou, the final destination of the Soudan caravan.

  30. One of my most curious acquaintances is an old Touatee, established in Ghat as a trader many years.

  31. Determined a day or two after to go to Kanou viâ Ghat and Aheer.

  32. In this way the comic camel-driver ridiculed the poverty and pusillanimity of Ghat Touaricks.

  33. This morning I took upon myself to scold severely some Ghadamsee merchants for introducing the subject of religion before the ignorant people of Ghat and Soudan.

  34. The streets of Ghat begin to be deserted.

  35. I have now had visits from all the great chieftains of the Ghat Touaricks, Shafou, Jabour, Berka, and Khanouhen.

  36. Those of Ghat are perhaps the best of the Touaricks, and the most religious.

  37. It is Richardson's Show at Ghat instead of Greenwich.

  38. His Highness is Sultan of all the Ghat Touaricks, or those of Azgher.

  39. Streets of Ghat deserted by departure of Caravans.

  40. Arrive at the Boundaries of Ghat and Fezzan.

  41. Our slave caravan stretched across the plain or bed of the Wady of Ghat eastwards, to the black range of Wareerat, and turning round abruptly north by some sand hills, we encamped after three hours.

  42. Saw to-day the Moorish Kady of Ghat for the first time: I had not made his acquaintance.

  43. More by token I had come out on the river-line close to the burnin' ghat and contagious to a cracklin' corpse.

  44. It shall be pulled down, and the Municipality shall make a road across, as they desire, from the burning-ghat to the city wall, so that no man may say where this house stood.

  45. Nicholson had preceded it by a few days, and from him I heard all about his fight with the Sialkot mutineers at Trimmu Ghat and the various marches and counter-marches which he had made since I left him at Philour.

  46. They are also known as Ghatibandhia, from the ghat or string of beads of basil-wool (tulsi) which they tie round their necks.

  47. This is afterwards buried at the burning-ghat until the priest comes to effect the purification of the mourners on the tenth day.

  48. Liquor is indispensable at all ceremonial feasts, and a purifying quality is attributed to it, so that it is drunk at the cemetery or bathing-ghat after a funeral.

  49. The route was across the Ramgunga at Bajpoorea Ghat through Jellalabad to Shahjehanpore, a large town which the enemy were known to hold in force, but which when entered on May 1st was found deserted and the cantonment destroyed.

  50. Something had already been done in Central India before Colin Campbell set foot on Prinsep's Ghat on the strand of Calcutta.

  51. I do not know that this way may not be preferable to cremation, which leaves in the air about the Ghat a faint but disagreeable odour.

  52. The Ghat is a place by the sea, or river shore, where Hindus burn their dead.

  53. The pass of Bhor-Ghat is safely accomplished and we are in Khandala.

  54. On the 29th a second steamer having been procured, the combined party proceeded in her; in due time arrived at Beharee Ghat on the river Sone; there landed, and began their march towards Arrah.

  55. In due time “Ooty” is reached, but a severe attack of ague while riding up the ghat rendered the latter part of the journey the reverse of pleasant.

  56. The ascent of the ghat presents a succession of strikingly beautiful views, precipitous cliffs, mountain ascents clothed by dense forest, deep valley and shola thickly wooded, rushing streams and small cascades.

  57. At night I will ask her whose ghat (watering-place) this is.

  58. Harata Kunwar answered, "Yes, I did go, granny; now tell me whose ghat it is.

  59. So at night, after they had eaten and drunk, Harata Kunwar asked her, "Whose ghat is that up-stream?

  60. So his granny the widow told him: "It is the ghat of the King of the Great Palace.

  61. We lay off the cremation-ghat half an hour and saw nine corpses burned.

  62. At the Kedar Ghat you will find a long flight of stone steps leading down to the river.

  63. Then he drinks the sewage at the Kedar Ghat to cure the fever; it cures the fever but gives him the smallpox.

  64. Lelha's boat came alongside the bathing ghat just as his four brothers were led off to prison, and the raja seeing it, asked Lelha what cargo he carried.

  65. Lelha's brothers as they sailed along came to a certain ghat at which a raja was bathing.

  66. But the Western Ghat mountains furnish a very good barricade against Bombay fever.

  67. Still waiting, a week later, he walked one morning on the stone causeway, which is a most attractive unit in the architecture of Poona's great waterworks, and filled his eyes with the Ghat vistas toward the north and west.

  68. At last it stopped at a bathing-place, which the Rakshasi maid-servant concluded was the bathing ghat of Keshavati.

  69. Keshavati was frightened and began to cry, but the boat went on and on, leaving behind many towns and cities, and in a trice reached the ghat where Sahasra Dal was in the habit of bathing.

  70. In the meantime the shell with the hair tied to it floated down the stream, and in course of time reached that ghat [13] at which Sahasra Dal and his companions were in the habit of performing their ablutions.


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