The higher castes often make the Pariahs presents, which they invariably place on the ground, for fear of contracting by mere physical contact the moral leprosy with which in their eyes the Pariahs are affected.
Europeans are ranked withPariahs on account of their daily habit of eating beef.
Where the Pariahs have no special wells, they place their chatties by the well-sides of the men of caste, and await humbly and patiently the alms offering of a few glasses of water.
The pariahswere not permitted to let this skirt come lower than the knee, and males and females of inferior caste had the breast uncovered.
Pariahs were excluded from purchasing the privilege.
Pariahs in these parts have no separate caste of barbers, but anyone among themselves may try his skill on any head.
Worthy descendants of the Pariahs of India, whence these gipsies without doubt originally came," says Freycinet, "they are noted like their ancestors for every vicious practice and criminal propensity.
These last, the Pariahs of the country, Freycinet remarks, though without citing his authority, were of a more diminutive stature than the other inhabitants.
The Dom pariahsof India who carry out or touch dead bodies, also eat the bodies of animals that have died a natural death, as do the Gipsies of England.
Gipsies, from which I conclude that at some time when these pariahs became too numerous and dangerous there was a general expulsion of them from India.
The first Pariahs of India may have consisted entirely of those who refused to embrace the religion of their conquerors.
Just as he had resolved to take the first opportunity of quarrelling with the pariahs of Derncleugh, a cause of provocation presented itself.
I have merely tried to rehabilitate the pariahs of the great mercantile world by reviving the lost art of perambulating publicity.
There were lawyers who promoted quarrels to get fees; but they were the pariahs of the profession.
To the radical proslavery man and to the northerner hating the Negro it was well adapted to rid the country of the free persons of color whom they regarded as the pariahs of society.
He was charged with countenancing superstition by allowing the use of pagan rites, and with encouraging schism and dissension by permitting no intermingling between the Brahmins and the pariahs even in the churches.
Natural children are thepariahs of the world, and I--am one of the Brahmans.
From hunted and proscribed Abolitionists and oppressed and spirit-broken colored men, the Pariahs of American democracy, he could alone expect sympathy.
The gypsies, for whom no conscious or acknowledged hope burns through the mighty darkness that surrounds them,--they are pariahs of pariahs.
Evidently, the anti-Jewish conscience of the Tzar made it impossible for him to grant even the slightest relief to the Jews who from pariahshad been turned into revolutionaries.
They are the Pariahs of the Telugu country, and are regarded as impure and degraded.
In the disputes and conflicts which so often take place between the two factions it is always the Pariahs who make the most disturbance and do the most damage.
The Pariahs (Malas) are also its great support, as a proof of which they glory in the title of Valangai Maugattar or Friends of the Right Hand.
How can one judge and condemn one's neighbor without having the least idea of the state of mind of these pariahs of society?
Stuart writes, [150] "are the Pariahsof the Telugu country.
Finally it is brought outside the municipal limits and left there, the Pariahs taking away the animals and fruits.
That the gypsies were Hindus, and outcast Hindus orPariahs at that, could be no secret to Scott.
Yet the Great Master of Virtue did not so; but descended to familiar intercourse with publicans and sinners, with the Samaritan woman, with the outcasts and the Pariahs of the Hebrew world.
It leaped as noiselessly and descended as destructively upon the population of many a high-towered, wide-paved, purified, and disinfected city of the West as upon the Pariahs of Tanjore and the filthy streets of Stamboul.
He calls to Him the humble, the poor, the Pariahs of the world.
The Sudras may eat every kind but beef, but the Pariahs are under no restriction whatever.
The Pariahs are being gradually raised from their degradation by the efforts of Christian missionaries.
Then they become keenly excited at the prospect of the coming feast, for which, however, they must first do battle with the crowd of pariahs that also haunt the vicinity of the same temple.
There is always a crowd of bony, hungry pariahs lying in wait beneath the kitchen floor, ready to snap up the bits as they fall.
We halted near the steps, yet close enough to the post where the pariahs stood for me to see a splotch of fresh blood on the black-stained flagstones at its foot.
She would have kowtowed had the pariahs loosened their brutal grip of her rounded arms.
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