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Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence for British and foreign India, China, and all parts of the East choose

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[UK] Allen’s Indian Mail 29 June 406/2: Now came the Madras civilians with a fearful grievance, that all the loaves and fishes of the north are gobbled by the Qui Hies – the troubled waters of the five rivers afford nothing to the benighted. The poor ducks again are once more left to suffer in silence.
at Benighted, the, n.
[UK] Allen’s Indian Mail 29 June 406/2: Now came the Madras civilians with a fearful grievance, that all the loaves and fishes of the north are gobbled by the Qui Hies – the troubled waters of the five rivers afford nothing to the benighted. The poor ducks again are once more left to suffer in silence.
at duck, n.3
[UK] Allen’s Indian Mail (London) 14 Apr. 205/1: The Pagoda Tree is still occasionally found and pretty well shaken.
at shake the pagoda tree (v.) under shake, v.
[UK] Allen’s Indian Mail 39/2: The natives of these parts flock round the place where they are staying, with open mouths and straining eyes, to have a dekko at the famous Roos-lok .
at dekko, n.
[UK] Allen’s Indian Mail 1 Sept. 807/1: The Commissioner of Scinde or the Superintendent of the Frontier – we are not sure which – advised, or, to use the expressive hybrid vernacular term (Sumjaoed), the Khan to dismiss these mischief-making servants, and his Highness did so.
at sumjao, v.
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