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"Gantang" is a unit of measurement used to calibrate the amount of rice.
Lim Kit Siang 2009
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"Gantang" is a unit of measurement used to calibrate the amount of rice.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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"Gantang" is a unit of measurement used to calibrate the amount of rice.
Lim Kit Siang 2009
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"Gantang" is a unit of measurement used to calibrate the amount of rice.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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The text was composed by Ma Pangbo: “We carve this tablet in his honor to show our love just as people long ago expressed their love of Shaobo by cherishing the tree of Gantang” Shaobo in ancient Chinese legend was a wise and just minister of the Western Zhou dynasty, who liked to sit beneath the tree of Gantang.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The text was composed by Ma Pangbo: “We carve this tablet in his honor to show our love just as people long ago expressed their love of Shaobo by cherishing the tree of Gantang” Shaobo in ancient Chinese legend was a wise and just minister of the Western Zhou dynasty, who liked to sit beneath the tree of Gantang.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The lotus lake at Bukit Gantang was infinitely more beautiful than under the grayer sky of Friday; a thousand rosy vases were drinking in the sunshine, and ten thousand classic leaves were spreading their blue-green shields below them; all nature smiled and sang.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Mr. Maxwell tells me that, as he returned from escorting me to Bukit Gantang, he overtook a gharrie with a Malay woman in it, and dismounting joined her husband who was walking, but did not speak to the woman.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Rajah Gantang himself who had come among them, to seek his opportunity for overthrowing the English, and now his opportunity had come.
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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Gantang, who little thought when he took the steamer, by his clever ruse, up the solitary river, that he was leading them where it would be the salvation of the hunting-party, who were doomed to death.
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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