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  • Although an Assam malee or gardener resides in them, they are kept in miserable order: the soil seems good, the trees flourishing, mangoe, Diospyros, Jubrung, oranges, citrons, pomegranates, are the principal trees.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • This kind of employment came into the country with our rule, so that the domestic Hamal, who is an offshoot of the palkee hamal, or "bearer," has not had time to become what fanciers would call a permanent strain, and you will find that you can convert Rama into a chupprasse, a malee, or even a ghorawalla, but into a mussaul never.

    Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

  • Par-malee that, and old drunken Jake Norris the other.

    Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • "Now we getee pay for patient waitee -- we hab egg -- better than dulion -- belly bess solt of egg malee."

    The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

  • The birds that had now displayed themselves to the eyes of our party of castaways were of the species known as "maleos," by Saloo called malee.

    The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

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