Pettah

Army said that the two Rocket Shaped Bombs can do massive damage like flattening the over crowded area of Pettah in the Colombo District if they are Dropped there.

Two Ten Feet Rocket Shaped Aerial Bombs Belongs To The LTTE Recovered 2009

Pettah, or the plundering of a Pagoda, most of these tawny dogs carried so much treasure about their persons, that a won battle was equal to a mine of gold to the victors.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

The Pettah police in Trivandrum took me into unlawful custody on 5th March 1976.

Naxal Revolution Exclusive - Interview with Mr P Govindan Kutty ,Editor of Peoplesmarch(Voice of the Indian Revolution) Abhay N 2006

The Pettah police in Trivandrum took me into unlawful custody on 5th March 1976.

Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006

Wellesley, and the indomitable gallantry of a Gahagan; which was illustrated by our victories at Ahmednuggar (where I was the first over the barricade at the storming of the Pettah); at Argaum, where

Burlesques 2006

"I have to go down to the Pettah, to get some sewing silk to match this;" and she drew out a small fragment of yellow silk.

The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib 1867

Though the ancient Pettah, or Black Town, inhabited solely by the natives, is not a very attractive place to visit, and though it is characterized by dirt and squalor, still it is quiet and orderly, presenting many objects of interest as illustrating the domestic life of the Singhalese.

Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

Wellesley, and the indomitable gallantry of a Gahagan; which was illustrated by our victories at Ahmednuggar (where I was the first over the barricade at the storming of the Pettah); at Argaum, where

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan 1838

In Ceylon, Mynah had grown used to the "lush chaos of Colombo's Pettah market, that smell of sarong cloth being unfolded and cut a throat-catching odor, and mangosteens, and rain-soaked paperbacks in a bookstall."

NYT > Home Page By LIESL SCHILLINGER 2011

In fact, it was making men of them at once, for a few white faces never failed to strike terror into these black rascals; and then, not to mention the good things that were going at the storming of a Pettah, or the plundering of a Pagoda, most of these tawny dogs carried so much treasure about their persons, that a won battle was equal to a mine of gold to the victors.

The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801