In the evening we returned to our tamarind tree, and the next morning regained the trunk road, following it to the dawk bungalow of Doomree.
The banyan and peepul always appear to be planted, as do the tamarind and mango.
The relations of the deceased repair to the spot where the corpse was burnt, collect the ashes, and sprinkle cow-dung, neredi and tamarind water over the spot.
The bridegroom then places a few tamarind seeds in the brass vessel, but the bride objects to this, and demands money, accompanying the demand with strokes of the stick.
In olden times, members who disobeyed him were made to run through the streets with a rotten tender cocoanut tied to the kudumi (hair knot), while a man ran behind, applying a tamarind switch to the back.
In South Malabar there is not as a rule any procession to the tamarind tree.
She is sometimes, in addition, beaten on the back with tamarind switches.
Among Agathu Charna Nayars of South Malabar, the ceremony takes place in the nadumittam, whither the tamarind branch is brought by a Tiyan.
The woman's brother performs Ganapathi puja, and then gives some of the tamarind leaves to the Enangatti, who expresses their juice, and mixes it with that of four other plants.
Until she is confined, the girl waters the tamarind branch, and offers rice, flowers, and lighted wicks to it three times a day.
After she has swallowed the tamarind juice, the woman is asked to pick out one of several packets of different grains placed before her.
It is noted in the Cochin Census Report, 1901, that "the puli-kudi ceremony consists in administering to the woman with child a few pills of tamarind and other acid substances.
Then the girl and her brother, holding hands, dig a hole with the charakkol and pisankatti, and plant the tamarind branch in the nadumittam, and water it.
In cases of adultery, the guilty persons have to carry a basket of sand on the head round the quarters of the community, accompanied by the Chinna Pattakaran, who beats them with a tamarind switch.
Another, and even more important ceremony, is the puli-kuti (drinking tamarind juice).
One day I saw her in the great Avenue of Tamarind Trees looking attentively at something which she held in the palm of her hand; she would lift it and bring it near--then hold it off at a distance, looking at it with half-closed eyes.
I spent much of my time at this place, owing to some tall tamarind trees, which cast a fresh and delicious shade all around.
Paul; "these trees produce no fruit fit to eat; and I shall not be able to find even a tamarind or a lemon to refresh you.
Parties stole out also into the depths: of the jungle to search for wild fruit, and soon returned laden with baskets of the wood-peach and tamarind fruit, which though it did not satisfy, relieved them.
Wild fruit began to be abundant; the wood-apple and tamarind and a small plum-like fruit, furnished us with many an agreeable repast.
In front of one of the huts stood two tall tamarind trees--between which a hammock was suspended, at the height of seven or eight feet from the ground.
The student whom the officer left near the tamarind trees?
We left him sleeping in a hammock, between two great tamarind trees; and certainly it must have been his good star that had conducted him into that comfortable situation.
For refreshing drinks, if there be any fever, lemonade or tamarind tea may be taken.
As a drink lemonade is excellent, with a little cream of tartar, or tamarind tea, or barley water sweetened with honey.
Lemonade or tamarind tea, with some Syrup of Poppies added, may be freely drunk, or some of the black currant root tea.
Cinnamon and clove scent the breeze which whispers mysterious secrets to the swaying plumes of the tall sago-palms, and dies away in the delicate foliage of tamarind and ironwood tree.
The official buildings of Makassar, including the Dutch Governor's palace, face a green aloon-aloon, flanked by superb avenues of kanari and tamarind trees.
A grey fort, and weather-worn Government offices, flank the green aloon-aloon of Amboyna, surrounded by tamarind avenues.
Plumy cocoanut and tremulous tamarind wave over the last resting-places of these exiles from the Holy Land of the Celestial Empire, for the second generation established on an alien soil is forbidden to seek burial in China.
The green lanes, with their hedges of scarlet hybiscus overhung by the feathery foliage of tamarind and bamboo, wind along the shore, and penetrate into the depths of the hills.
Her diet is restricted to boiled rice, milk, sugar, curd, and tamarind without salt.
They say that when you see an orchid growing as a parasite on a tamarind tree, you should dress in white, take a new earthenware pot, then climb the tree at noon, break off the plant, put it in the pot and let the pot fall to the ground.
If there is no tamarind to act as bride, a jasmine will serve the turn.
These hungry animals gather the tamarinds before they ripen, and I fear they will not leave a handful for us; nothing is more agreeable in this hot climate than the acidity of tamarind water.
In the afternoon, we were sitting beneath the shade of our tamarind tree when we thought we could perceive our musical friend returning.
The large tamarind trees on the opposite bank are generally full of the dog-faced baboons (Cynocephalus) in the evening, at their drinking-hour.
We arrived early in camp, and on the following day we moved sixteen miles farther up stream, and camped under a tamarind tree by the side of the river.
In a march of four hours from this point, we arrived at a hor, or ravine, when we halted beneath a large tamarind tree, and pitched the tent according to the instructions of our guide.
They had not noticed us, as we were close to the high rocky bank upon their left, in the deep shade of the tamarind trees.
We were served with an infusion of tamarind with a strong dash of brandy in it; I then asked him, "How comes it that you did not, in person, ask for the favor you expected from me?
The American was just finishing a bottle of Catalonian refino, while the Mexican slowly sipped some iced tamarind water.
The tamarind is a universal and thrifty tree in the island, lofty and umbrageous, a quick grower and yet long-lived.
Not now; a few more turns down the back lanes yonder, and we shall find it among the tamarind trees in the plain.
Moro Trimmul watched the party as they descended the steps to the tamarind trees below.
That tamarind which has wandered into the desert looks like a drowning man raising his arms, in vain, heavenward.
On that spot a tamarind seed fell, and the plant has begun to grow with endless effort.
But I thought it too soon, and contented myself with getting a little tamarind from the apothecary.
Go home, and get Mariuccia to give you some syrup of tamarind to cool your blood.
Among the Dangurs the bride and bridegroom go to worship at Hanuman's shrine after the ceremony, and all along the way the bride beats the bridegroom with a tamarind twig.
Madak or opium prepared for smoking may not now be sold, but people make it for themselves, heating the opium in a little brass cup over a fire with an infusion of tamarind leaves.
There is a playground under some fine tamarind trees, and an adobe wall encloses, without secluding, the whole.
The girls by the trickling water under the tamarind trees muffled up their faces and waddled away as fast as they could.
An adventurous kite carried off a fork from the dinner-table, and a monkey sprang down from the roof of the veranda and snapped up Kathleen's doll, which it carried to the tallest tamarind tree in the garden.
In cases of adultery, the guilty parties are tied to a post, and beaten with tamarind switches.
Sometimes, as a punishment, a man is made to carry a basket of rubbish, with tamarind twigs as the emblem of flogging, and a knife to denote cutting of the tongue.
The next item in the proceedings is the erection of the milk-post, which is made of a pestle of tamarind or Soymida febrifuga wood, or a green bamboo.
We found the tents pitched under a widespreading tamarind tree, in the immediate neighbourhood of a number of cocoa-nut palms.
He was buried under the shadow of a tamarind tree, beside the graves of members of his company who fell at the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamarind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
