Thin the doors av all the palanquins slid back, an' the women bundled out.
The remainder av the palanquins was in a big half circle facing in to the biggest, fattest, an' most amazin' she-god that iver I dreamed av.
Then the palanquins were brought to the foot of the verandah stairs.
The procession of palanquins passed out through the streets and along the road to Su-ching.
There are plenty of landaus in Madras at three rupees a day; and the dak, as the cart is called, and palanquins are becoming things of the past.
Two palanquins went by them at full tilt, and they saw what was to be seen in the street.
Two or three palanquins were seen; but they were an old story, and they turned their attention to the architecture of the houses that lined the street.
The eye is dazzled by the strange and picturesque confusion, the many-hued crowd of horses, warriors, and camels bearing rich palanquins in which the women are inclosed.
Because the railway stopped at the base of these mountains, and the passengers were obliged to cross in palanquins or on ponies to Kandallah, on the other side.
Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old unwieldy methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches.
Passepartout wandered, with his hands in his pockets, towards the Victoria port, gazing as he went at the curious palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets.
And they were succeeded by eighty women magnificently apparelled, borne on palanquins with golden feet, and five hundred borne on palanquins with silver feet.
Leaving the continent of Asia we cross the sea to the Dutch island of Java, where the women ride in palanquins suspended from a long pole and carried by two or four porters.
Besides these elaborate conveyances there are several kinds of palanquins for use on rough roads and in mountainous districts.
It will be noticed in a caravan that some of the camels carry extraordinary fan-shaped palanquins on their backs.
By the kindness of some friends, we had palanquins in waiting at day-break, which were to convey us a distance of five miles to the place now occupied as cantonments.
When the excitement is at its height the temple attendants seize the palanquins and dance them up and down violently, and make the godlings salaam to each other and to Rugonath, the chief god.
There is feasting, and the men dance round and round the palanquins containing the inferior gods.
Palanquins are usually open both in front and behind; they have a small window at the side, and a cross plank on which the passengers sit.
A few palanquins were moving about through the crowd; those of the Javanese are formed of a hammock suspended from a bamboo cross-stick and sheltered from the rays of the sun by a little roof of bamboo or palm-leaf matting.
No, dear, but Effie has already hinted that the country of palanquins is not so far from us as that.
We came upon two men's palanquins in the road from Ichijo, which had stopped there.
There were many palanquinswaiting at the shelter [for conveyances] near the north entrance.
The nobles used various kinds of carriages drawn by one bullock, and there were also palanquins carried by bearers.
The King and the Queen had already sent kind messages, begging them to come as soon as possible; and in the afternoon they went when the usual palanquins arrived for them.
The Chinese princes have discreetly withdrawn, followed by their silk-robed attendants, and have been borne far away in their palanquins to their own dwellings in another part of the shadowy city.
Death hovers over these paths where formerly princesses passed in their palanquins and empresses with their silk-robed followers.
It is nine miles from the city, with a smooth road to the very summit, so that we might go either in pony palanquins or on horseback.
As she looked, with her eyes blinded by tears, she saw the elephants and horses on the farther bank, and palanquins and bearers, and camels for the baggage.
At the corner they stopped to await the procession of palanquinsand jinrikshas, which had started from the pier.
Palanquins were waiting to carry the lords and ladies of the castle down to the sea.
Palanquins are sometimes like small four-post beds, with richly ornamented curtains, and supported by a long horizontal pole, borne by four men.
Mars with palanquins having gone on in the morning.
There were no spare palanquins in camp, and a dhoolie is a sort of bed with red curtains, that sick soldiers are carried in, very light, but squalid-looking.
There are beds on poles for sick servants and palanquins for us, which are nothing but beds in boxes.
Mars cleared up the palanquins for the day, and then another in the evening while he made them up for the night.
In this order the cavalcade passed on through the gloomy gate of the citadel, till their palanquins were put down at the private door of the female apartments of the Palace.
At the period prior to the introduction of wheeled transport when palanquins or litters were largely used for travelling, the carriers belonged to the Kahar caste in northern India and to the Dhimars or Bhois in the south.
The traditional story is that the Rajput king of Garhpahra detained the palanquins of twenty-two married women of different castes and kept them as his wives.
Fish cooked in various ways and warm sake (rice beer) were also procurable, and red-faced native gentlemen might often be seen folding themselves up into their palanquins after a mild daylight debauch.
We found the streets so full of spectators that it became necessary to get into our palanquins to avoid the crush of curious sightseers.
Ocean," twelve palanquins in which such of us rode as had legs flexible enough, four of the legation escort on foot, and two bodies of Japanese troops who preceded and followed us.
As soon as the local escort had turned back we descended from our palanquins to pursue our way on foot to the Tenriu-gawa, which we crossed by means of ferry boats.
It took the Owari folk three hours to get us the necessary palanquins and bearers.
We therefore procured bearers for the palanquins which had been abandoned by their frightened porters, and returned to our quarters without any further mishap.
A hundred naked porters hurried forward to carry our palanquinsand baggage to the other bank.
We went in palanquins as far as the bridge of Seta, and embarking in a boat, proceeded down the river to Ishiyama-dera.
So I tried to procure three palanquins for us, which took an unexpectedly long time to produce.
On December 12, having transacted all our business at Ozaka, we started in palanquins for Hiogo.
After we had resumed our palanquins to take our way to the village of Kouan-chih-lih, M.
On the morning of the 3rd of May, therefore, we had five palanquins brought up for our accommodation.
In the city of Madras, all the materials necessary for the bier are sold by Panisavans, who also keep palanquins for the conveyance of the corpse in stock, which are let out on hire.
In 1874 they endeavoured to establish a right to enter the great Minakshi temple at Madura, but failed, and they have since claimed to be allowed to wear the sacred thread, and to have palanquins at their weddings.
Then he commanded two palanquins to be prepared and men in readiness to carry them, and said, "Let the girl be married to the young Rajah, and let both be taken far away into the jungle, that we may never see them more.
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