Lexicographical Neighbors of Pultuns
Literary usage of Pultuns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the NOrth-west by Coldstream, William (1902)
"Four pultuns and 200 or 250 ... at 8 am Day before yesterday Bareilly pultuns
went across. Yesterday, from 4 pm, ... pultuns began to cross. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1834)
"... is one of my regiments (pultuns), but they tell me it is one I cannot discipline;"
a remark which amused us, and mightily pleased the fair. ..."
3. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1859)
"... great as that of one a thousand strong or more; Natives always computing force
by Regiments or pultuns, not by the hundred or thousand bayonets. ..."
4. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1890)
"... pultuns of the Romans, estimated, respectively, at about one foot and-a-half
and three inches; this would make the height of these people eight feet. ..."
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