Usage examples for palanquin
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This
consisted
of
a
Persian
palanquin,
with
its
long
pole-
shafts
saddled
upon
the
back
of
a
mule
at
each
end;
with
servants
on
foot,
and
a
body-
guard
of
mounted
soldiers.
– Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
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Thence,
through
the
great
white
corridor
whose
windows
all
face
sunwards,
Nehemoth,
in
his
palanquin,
passes
on
to
the
Audience
Chamber
of
Embassies
from
the
North,
which
is
all
decked
with
Northern
wares.
– The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany
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The
women
worked
silently,
humbly,
though
they
would
have
been
chattering
if
the
great
Sidi
stranger
had
not
been
there;
but
two
or
three
little
children
in
orange
and
scarlet
rags
played
giggling
among
the
rubbish
outside
the
tent-
a
broken
bassour-
frame,
or
palanquin,
waiting
to
be
mended;
date
boxes,
baskets,
and
wooden
plates;
old
kous-
kous
bowls,
bundles
of
alfa
grass,
chicken
feathers,
and
an
infant
goat
with
its
mother.
– The Golden Silence by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson