Long did the punkahs waft their breeze over that brave-hued wheel of pleasure, and the sound of the violins quaver and wail out into the morning.
Through the length of the church the punkahs were swinging alternately on either side, and those in the chancel were only waiting for the entrance of the choir to begin waving likewise.
Punkahs are hung in different parts of the room, and the punkah-wallah, specially kept for that purpose, keeps you in a fresh current of air whilst reading or writing.
Outside there were rows of men standing round the building pulling the cord that passes through the hole in the frame, and inside I saw that comical effect of punkahs in a church for the first time.
Within a week of the first sight of that sprightly little bird will come the day when punkahs cease to be a necessity.
In Madras punkahs are up all the year round, and, as usually they are pulled only at meal times, squirrels regard them as paths leading to their nests.
It feels all right in the sun out of doors, but indoors after dark and in draughts from punkahsit is horrid.
It was supposed to be hot enough for the punkahs in the saloon; one is hung over the length of each of the five tables, to port and starboard, and there are others the whole length of the table that runs up the middle of the saloon.
Much hotter down here, the sun powerful after 10 o'clock, but Punkahs not necessary.
We had six bearers, who were employed to carry our palanquin, when we went out, and they also had to keep the punkahsat work, besides having other things to do.
Well, sir, the punkahs were suspended, and I fancied that I had gained an immense triumph; but I was very much mistaken.
Huge punkahs are suspended from the ceiling, and pulled by natives during the performance.
Without the punkahs the heat in the house would be unbearable.
The heat inside the room they entered was oppressive, in spite of a great open window at which sat a dozen maids, and of the punkahs swinging overhead, so Kirby undid his cloak and walked revealed, a soldier in mess dress.
A dozen more men entered, and the air, already heavy, grew thick with tobacco smoke mingling with the smoke of sandal-wood that floated back and forth in layers as the punkahs swung lazily.
I have seen very pretty punkahs made of sweet-scented flowers over a frame of bamboo.
Fixed punkahs were introduced early in the nineteenth century.
Outside the court the sun blazed--within was the wind of great punkahs that made you shiver, the shame that made you burn, the attentive eyes whose glance stabbed.
High up in the dim space the punkahs were swaying short to and fro, to and fro.
At the clubs electric punkahs fanned the air, ice clinked in frosted glasses and home-sick young officers read news-sheets from Britain.
To-day, the passengers gathered in the handsome saloon were glad to see the doors flung wide and the punkahs vigorously waving, for it was very warm.
Two long punkahs flapped languidly in the darkness, with a whine of pulleys.
Chantel, in the lamplight, watched the punkahs with a hateful smile.
Punkahs are going continually at meal times, and if one sits down to write in the saloon, the "punkah-wallah" spies one out and begins his refreshing labors at once.
Then such anomalies--quantities of flannel which I never wear at all in this cool climate, but which we are to wear at night there, because the creatures who are pulling all night at the Punkahs sometimes fall asleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punkahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
