Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhurras
Literary usage of Dhurras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1893)
"*1861 bf The Orphan, by Due an dhurras - Colonel Caulfield Not covered in ...
THE ORPHAN'S produce was given in later volumes, but Due an dhurras cannot be ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1820)
"... several subordinate chiefs, who are the commanders of dhurras, or tribes, and
acknowledge a tacit obedience to one or other of the three great leaders ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1842)
"And now for the dock an dhurras—the stirrup-cup, Mrs. Doolan —that's the darlin'.
Ah, there's nothing like it 1— ' Sit mihi lagena, Ad summum plena. ..."
4. Ceylon, the Paradise of Adam: The Record of Seven Years' Residence in the Island by Caroline Corner (1908)
"Red carpet covered the stone steps, red carpet and dhurras covered the verandah,
sprinkled all over with"rose-leaves, orange blossom ..."
5. Ceylon, the Paradise of Adam: The Record of Seven Years' Residence in the Island by Caroline Corner (1908)
"Red carpet covered the stone steps, red carpet and dhurras covered the verandah,
sprinkled all over with'rose-leaves, orange blossom and myrtle. ..."
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