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Festival food would be ordered at the Goldsmiths or Brahmin's home who's wife was considered a Sugran (super cook).
Archive 2006-10-01 Anjali 2006
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Festival food would be ordered at the Goldsmiths or Brahmin's home who's wife was considered a Sugran (super cook).
Chavlachi Roti Anjali 2006
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The old ever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth, theologians and Brahmin's, monks and priests all trying to tell others about what they have no understanding of.
Wise Words from Moses Mendelssohn... Fathorse 2007
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None but the mind of a poet could imagine such outcasts venturing to raise their thoughts to the beauty of a Brahmin's daughter; and a touching tale in such creative fancy, no doubt, it would make, for, from their outward appearances, I do not perceive why they should not be endowed with minds as sensitive at least as those of the castes above them.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. Various
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But death by the fire of a Brahmin's anger leads to everlasting hell.
Tales from the Hindu Dramatists R. N. Dutta
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Yet he had the usual red paint marks neatly inscribed on his forehead, and his Brahmin's thread, like a long skein of cotton, was worn sash-like next his skin, but just peeping out a little at the neck for the people to see.
India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin
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When the Brahmin entered to bring Townsend a proof, or upon some other business of the paper, the rich noble rose, and, as Townsend picturesquely put it, “swept the dust off the Brahmin's feet with his forehead.”
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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At the moment that the rope tightened about my throat I reached up and grasped the Brahmin's left thumb.
Fire-Tongue Sax Rohmer 1921
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Brahmin's death led to his being sent there as a serious and respectable murderer, it would be a real case of two enemies on one spear -- an insult avenged and a most desired re-patriation achieved.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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The Brahmin's corpse should be the stepping-stone to higher things and the place where people knew a Somali from a Negro.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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