"Lakh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would have borne golden fruit in any city in the Western world. There, where lies the skeleton of a jackal half-buried in sand, an Indian banker had his habitat and office only a few months before, with a lakh of rupees stacked in a conspicuous place as glittering earnest of his ability to pay well for anything remarkable in the way of a pearl. And beyond, where occurs the rift in the sand, stood the shanty in which ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... or wood, dedicated to various goddesses; and cages for parrots, cuckoos, starlings, quails, cocks, and partridges; water-vessels of different sorts and of elegant forms, machines for throwing water about, guitars, stands for putting images upon, stools, lac, red arsenic, yellow ointment, vermilion and collyrium, as well as sandal-wood, saffron, betel nut and betel leaves. Such things should be given at different times whenever he gets a good opportunity of meeting her, and some of ...
— The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, - Introduction and Concluding Remarks • Vatsyayana
... chaumiere, Gisant a terre, un porc fetide qu'un boucher Venait de saigner vif avant de l'ecorcher; Cette bete ralait devant cette masure; Son cou s'ouvrait, beant d'une affreuse blessure; Le soleil de midi brulait l'agonisant; Dans la plaie implacable et sombre, dont le sang Faisait un lac fumant a la porte du bouge, Chacun de ses rayons entrait comme un fer rouge; Comme s'ils accouraient a l'appel du soleil, Cent moustiques sucaient la plaie au bord vermeil; Comme autour de leur lit voltigent les colombes, Ils allaient et venaient, parasites des tombes, ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... Hospital Company was trained at Camp Custer as a part of the 310th Sanitary Train, was detached in England and sent to North Russia with the other American units. It was commanded by Major Jonas Longley, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who till April was the senior American medical officer. The enlisted personnel ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... line in which I have taken much liberty with the text is the fifth, where, after the word kue, one MS. reads: yok taa ba akauba, and another, yok lac kauba, neither ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
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