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Example sentences for "split bamboo"

  • A great many Chinese find employment in carrying small restaurants about the city on split bamboo poles.

  • These boats will contain and conceal a great number of men; they were commonly covered with an awning of split bamboo, raised some distance above the gunwall, like the ridge of a house.

  • What would have been my predicament had the rod been of split bamboo?

  • If split bamboo is the choice, let it be the work of a practical rod-maker.

  • I'm in luck this morning," said the dame, and she pulled the peach to shore with a split bamboo stick.

  • Soon he came to a quiet suburb, and to a certain house whose garden had a split bamboo fence.

  • What should he see there but the maiden sitting upon a pile of faggots, and fanning the kitchen fire with a split bamboo fan!

  • The mediums who have gathered beneath the sogayob begin to sing, while one of them beats time with a split bamboo stick.

  • Ten dishes are placed on the spirit mat, and as the medium sings, she touches each one in turn with a split bamboo; after which she piles the dishes up and has the host come and squat over them three times.

  • A Split Bamboo, in which Offerings are Placed.

  • Since last summer's experience I have wished more than once that I had been on that occasion the owner of a split bamboo.

  • Like the Medaras, they work in split bamboo, and make sundry articles which are not made by other castes who work in this medium.

  • The contents of the box are set beneath a booth made of split bamboo (palavili), and decorated with mango leaves, and flowers.

  • It is like a huge pyramid made of basket-work of split bamboo or plaited reeds or rushes, and it covers him almost half way down to his waist.

  • In front is a terrace fifty feet broad, running partially along the front of the building, formed, like the floors, of split bamboo.

  • The whole family gathers in the evening around the sacred siju tree (Euphorbia splendens), which is often to be seen growing in the court-yard, surrounded by a fence of split bamboo.

  • The houses are of the usual type, one-storied only, the walls being of ekra reed or of split bamboo, and the roof of thatch fastened by cane.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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