Lexicographical Neighbors of Pondoks
Literary usage of Pondoks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1900)
"Would like to have some old bamboos to be used for little sheds (pondoks ?)
on the land. Guavas, pomegranate, papaja. Sugar cane or its seed, and whatever ..."
2. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"... after the fashion of the students' pondoks or huts in Java. ... This establishment
of heads of pondoks or ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1905)
"pondoks,1 and cultivated their garden patches. At the point where the road left
the flatness of the veld and dropped down into the valley, stood the one ..."
4. Geography of Africa South of the Zambesi by William Henry Parr Greswell (1892)
"The same author writes that on the loan-farms comfort was an unknown word, and
that the hovels or 'pondoks,' in which the graziers lived, seldom contained ..."
5. Descriptive Handbook of the Cape Colony: Its Condition and Resources by John Noble (1875)
"... few huts or " pondoks" (the native shepherds' quarters), where ebony-coloured
urchins are rolling about in company of goats, fowls, or tame springboks. ..."
6. Collected Papers (1922)
"... no conditions exactly comparable to the wet spots which Baermann found inside
the " pondoks " in Sumatra. Similar to these places, however, ..."
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