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Usage examples (31)
  • These Assistants, after their experience at the Presidency College, would be best fitted to become Professors in the mofussil at Colleges.
  • My dilemma was, how might I convey this to urban-bred news editors who have little tolerance for a mofussil correspondent's rural romanticism, as they saw it?
  • Then all had to put their umbrellas down on passing a sahib, and all had to leave the side-walk on the white man's approach; not that the law compelled them to do so, it was...
  • In the mofussil courts, even power supply is erratic.
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