Lexicographical Neighbors of Kombus
Literary usage of Kombus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Indian Protectorate: An Introduction to the Study of the Relations by Charles Lewis Tupper (1893)
"... for a long time to have been divided into petty independent chiefdoms known
as kombus. ... as the rulers of the kombus were called, at first submitted, ..."
2. Mysore and Coorg, a gazetteer by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1878)
"According to tradition the country was divided into 12 kombus and 35 nads.
The Nayaks guarded their respective territories by the boundary and defensive ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1878)
"Bark Louse on Pine, 183. BETHUNE, REY. CJS, Article by, 146. Blister Beetles,
Life History of, 30. %kombus fervidus, 135. ..."
4. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language by George Lillie Craik (1861)
"... supposed to pass before Queen Elizabeth in Wanstead garden, in which, among
other characters, a village schoolmaster called kombus appears, and declaims ..."
5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"COMBUSTION, kombus'chun, in the ordinary meaning of the term, is the union of
oxygen with some substance which will produce light and heat. ..."
6. A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1898)
"It should be observed that in the young nymph of Ephemera, as well as in the
semi-pupa of kombus, each of the three ocelli are situated on separate ..."
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