Suspended from the belt was his bamboo betel-nut and lime box. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His broken-fanged teeth were stained black by betel-nut, the juice of which he spat upon the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But one blue room stops me in my tracks: It holds dozens of betel-nut cutters and walnut crackers -- shaped like peacocks, horses, elephants, lions and entwined lovers. ❋ Margot Cohen (2010)
The whitest of well-kept teeth, gleaming regularly under a little black waxed mustache betrayed no trace of betel-nut or other nastiness, and neither his fine features nor his eyes suggested vice of the sort that often undermines the character of Rajput youth. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)
Once properly prepared, the duck is delicately tied up inside betel-nut bark, kind of like a Mexican tamale although a tamale's corn husk wrapping is softer than bark. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the shops along this stretch, also known as Antique Street, you'll find everything old -- or made to look that way -- including Vietnamese water puppets, brass filigree betel nut sets (to hold your betel-nut chewing equipment: they have compartments for betel nut and powdered lime), carved wooden Buddhas, and the occasional hill-tribe textile. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Working-class types here swear by the stuff, and you can tell a betel-nut fan by the telltale red stains around the mouth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Check out the betel-nut stand near the corner, and try some if you dare. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You'll have a long time waiting if you expect your betel-nut chewing compatriots to rail against their subaltern status and overthrow the Gramscian hegemony of Chinese identity. ❋ Michael Turton (2009)
They returned a week later, bringing betel-nut and coconut trees "planted in some of their native soil, to be offered to the Governor as a symbol that the sovereignty of their country had now been given to the [United Provinces]." ❋ Unknown (2006)
The essence of the “retaining art” is to avoid over-tension of the muscles and to pre-occupy the brain: hence in coition Hindus will drink sherbet, chew betel-nut and even smoke. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Almayer thought with dismay of the meeting of his wife and daughter, of what this grave girl in European clothes would think of her betel-nut chewing mother, squatting in a dark hut, disorderly, half naked, and sulky. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Yet after two days spent in wailing, she returned to her former mode of life, chewing betel-nut, and sitting all day amongst her women in stupefied idleness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And they sat there in close yet silent communion of betel-nut chewers, moving their jaws slowly, expectorating decorously into the wide-mouthed brass vessel they passed to one another, and listening to the awful din of the battling elements outside. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Great red stains on the floor and walls testified to frequent and indiscriminate betel-nut chewing. ❋ Unknown (2006)
While Lakamba was speaking he had glanced once rapidly over his shoulder, just to make sure that there was nobody behind him, and, tranquillised in that respect, he had extracted a siri-box out of the folds of his waist-cloth, and was wrapping carefully the little bit of betel-nut and a small pinch of lime in the green leaf tendered him politely by the watchful Babalatchi. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When Serungal carried the receptacle to the rajah and announced that he had accomplished the task, the latter said, “Well, you may have my daughter, but first you must climb my betel-nut tree and pluck all the nuts.” ❋ Jeannette L. Faurot (1995)
As a result the occasional legislator will charge betel-nut girls with destroying the moral fabric of the nation. ❋ Unknown (2005)
According to Openshaw, modern betel-nut girls are neither under-aged nor abused as is often claimed. ❋ Unknown (2005)
