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Examples
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Taking a jolt of "chandu" in a Limehouse room is about as exciting as taking a mixed vermuth at the Leicester Lounge.
Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915
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Today, india need to develop ins social power and when india will developed its social power, it can costruct hundreds of burj dubai. i am really impressed by india. i am the persom of new york. chandu Says:
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He gets his anodyne, a little something called chandu.
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He gets his anodyne, a little something called chandu.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Now one ounce of chandu gives nearly half an ounce of this refuse, called
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This extract, when consumed, leaves a refuse, consisting of charcoal, empyreumatic oil, some of the salts of opium, and a part of the chandu not consumed.
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In Singapore and China the refuse of the chandu, the prepared extract of opium, is all used by the lower classes.
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This is smoked and swallowed by the poorer classes, who only pay half the price of chandu for it.
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For a habitual opium-smoker to abstain when the fumes of chandu actually reach his nostrils is a feat of will-power difficult adequately to appraise.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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Mrs. Sin carefully lighted the lamp, which burned with a short, bluish flame, and, opening the lacquered box, she dipped the spatula into the thick gummy substance which it contained and twisted the little instrument round and round between her fingers, presently withdrawing it with a globule of chandu, about the size of a bean, adhering to the end.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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July 1, 2009