Ladies, borne in palanquins on the shoulders of coolies, came to see the strange devils cast up by the sea, and while their attendants drove back the common folk with whips, they would gaze long and timidly at us. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ladies, borne in palanquins on the shoulders of coolies, came to see the strange devils cast up by the sea and while their attendants drove back the common folk with whips they would gaze long and timidly at us. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Besides the European carriages, there are also certain vehicles of home manufacture called palanquins, which are altogether closed and surrounded on all sides with jalousies. ❋ Ida Pfeiffer (1827)
Naturally, too, musical instruments, as well as the national means of conveyance, such as palanquins and wheel-chairs, have not escaped the notice of the ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
Having seen images of palanquins and bearers, but unable to concieve of transport without wheels, the illustrator added the — to him entirely obvious and necessary — elements. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The palanquins would likely escape injury, but the carts were doomed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They moved aside at a deliberate pace, people carrying palanquins. ❋ Unknown (2009)
An oasis of villas surrounded by pines, bamboo, and waterfalls, it could be reached only by palanquins and bearers, who negotiated the three-hour trip up narrow mountain trails, planting little sticks below the boulders to propitiate the spirits holding up the mountainside and crossing bridges that swayed back and forth in the wind. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)
The text on this page makes not mention of human powered vehicles, nor of ones being pushed from behind; one may presume that the illustrator heard aboud the use of palanquins and conflated this with the wheeled vehicle described. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The treasures include thrones, palanquins, and a room decorated with emerald beetle wings (only beetles that died natural deaths can be used). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Anointments are done and the deities are redecorated and taken out in procession in floral palanquins around midnight. ❋ Truth (2008)
The palanquins return to the temple at dawn on the first day of the Tamil month of Karthigai, coinciding with the Kadamukham festival in Mayuram. ❋ Truth (2008)
The East and its wars, and its heroes, Assaye and Seringapatam (“and Lord Lake and Laswaree too,” calls out the Colonel greatly elated), tiger-hunting, palanquins, Juggernaut, elephants, the burning of widows — all passed before us in F. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They were the first nabobs, drunk every night and very spoiled with their palanquins and hookahs and opium dreams and mistresses in the zenana and boys to procure and valet for them. ❋ JULIE BAUMGOLD (2005)
[The witch] of the [waste] has a palanquin ❋ Isnortmenansashes (2022)
