Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawas
Literary usage of Pawas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gems of the East: Sixteen Thousand Miles of Research Travel Among Wild by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1904)
"My men told me that the portion of marshy land subject to inundation, before
entering the lagoon proper on the northwest side, was called by them pawas. ..."
2. The Laws of Manu by Manu, Georg Bühler (1886)
"He who by intimidation possesses himself of a house, a tank, a garden, or a field,
shall be fined five hundred (pawas); (if he trespassed) through ignorance ..."
3. The Institutes of Vishnu by Julius Jolly (1900)
"35. For abusing a man of his own caste, he shall be fined twelve Pa was. 36.
For abusing a man of a lower caste, he shall be fined six (pawas). ..."
4. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"Blade A spire of grass ; the cutting part of a weapon, Glade An opening in a
wood, s. En-fl-lade' A narrow pawas;e, s. To enfi-ladd To charge in a right ..."
5. The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising from by Frederick Pollock (1901)
"But penalties, the pilchard fishery of St. Ives, Cornwall, did not create private
rights enforceable by action ; Vestry of St. pawas v. ..."
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