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  • Then the Anglo-Saxon instinct for respectability (or some more subtle reason) prescribes the use of the ghari, which is practically a four-wheeled cab with Venetian blinds substituted for windows.

    A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore 1898

  • Aga office madli kama and ghari ale ki Chimi barobar khelna hya madhe blog kade jara durlakshya zalay.

    La Cinderella Anjali 2009

  • So I said nothing, while they wrangled in whispers there by the parapet, with every drawn face along the entrenchment on either side turned anxiously in our direction, and that painted old harridan sitting under the canopy of her ghari, nodding and bowing whenever anyone glanced at her.

    Fiancée 2010

  • They played for a third of a ghari —approximately an hour—and did not talk for the whole time, even at the ends of the chukkars, each of which lasted seven minutes.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • I chuckled at the thought, threw Cardigan's present into my valise without looking at it, and caught the train to Allahabad, where Billy Russell was at the station with a ghari to meet me.

    Fiancée 2010

  • "How-dee-do, gentlemen," says Mrs Jacobs, bowing with a great creak of stays from her seat in the ghari.

    Fiancée 2010

  • They played for a third of a ghari —approximately an hour—and did not talk for the whole time, even at the ends of the chukkars, each of which lasted seven minutes.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • So at noon Moore and I were escorted through the pandy lines, with Mrs Jacobs in her ghari jabbering about what a shame it was, oah yess, that the present unsettled state of affairs had prevented her getting up to the hills during the hot weather.

    Fiancée 2010

  • They played for a third of a ghari —approximately an hour—and did not talk for the whole time, even at the ends of the chukkars, each of which lasted seven minutes.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • She was the most unlikely messenger of grace you ever saw - a raddled old chee-thee* (* Half-caste.) biddy with clanking earrings and a parasol, drawn in a rickshaw ghari by two pandies, with another couple marching as guard, and a havildar out in front brandishing a white flag.

    Fiancée 2010

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