Got lost in douby ghaut mrt station (don't laugh.). From Wordnik.com. [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference
Who knew, Mrs Logan called back when we were at douby ghaut mrt. From Wordnik.com. [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference
In one of the stories by the present writer, a man is described tottering “up the steps of the ghaut,” having just parted with his child, whom he is despatching to. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
The distance from the intrenchment to the ghaut is barely. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
Able to meet at dhoby ghaut mrt at 6. 30pm, yishun/sembawang mrt at 7pm. From Wordnik.com. [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference
The domra who holds the monopoly at the Manikarnika ghaut is one of the richest men in Benares. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
A party of murderous villains turned this feeling of their countrymen to good account at a ghaut up the country. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
What a contrast between the turmoil and devilry of it and the serene calmness of the all but solitude the ghaut now presents!. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
"I was so stupidly proud that I did not like to ask; but as Seymour had set the example," added Courtenay, "pray what is a ghaut?". From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
In its older, wider, and popular significance the Malabar Coast includes the whole southwest corner of India as far back as the ghaut line. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Byram-ghaut on the 5th, till we recrossed it this morning, we were moving in the jurisdiction of the Nazim of the Gonda and Bahraetch district. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference
We shot all the forenoon, and killed two pariah-dogs, four green parrots, sitting, one kite by the burning-ghaut, one snake flying, one mud-turtle, and eight crows. From Wordnik.com. [Soldier Stories] Reference
Topee's dispositions for the perpetration of the treachery could not now succeed, for the Ganges has changed its course and there is deep water close in shore at the ghaut. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
Hither, too, were sent later the women of that detachment of the garrison which had got off from the ghaut in the boat defended by Vibart, Ashe, Delafosse, Bolton, Moore, and. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
My stay of five days in the City of Palaces has been very enjoyable, and it is with real regret that I bid farewell to those who come down to the shipping ghaut to see me off. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
The village of Suttee Chowra on the bluff on the left of the ghaut, where Tantia Topee's sepoys were concealed, no longer exists; a pretty bungalow and its compound occupy its site. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
In one of the stories by the present writer, a man is described tottering "up the steps of the ghaut," having just parted with his child, whom he is despatching to England from India. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Ganges Valley happily afford him opportunity to soften up the crust of his accumulated transgressions, preparatory to washing them away entirely by a plunge off the Kamnagar ghaut at Benares. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
On their return to the ghaut -- as the landing stage is called -- they found their various purchases already stowed in the Sea Belle's boat; which had, about an hour before, come to shore to fetch them off. From Wordnik.com. [For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes] Reference
"Not as long as it is straight running, Sahib; but if they follow us far, they may come up within range of us as we are making our way down some of those nasty places, where we came up the face of the ghaut.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib] Reference
I wrote this, remembering in long, long distant days, such a ghaut, or river-stair, at Calcutta; and a day when, down those steps, to a boat which was in waiting, came two children, whose mothers remained on the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Keerut Sing, the tallookdar of Paska, on the left bank of the Ghagra, between Fyzabad and Byram-ghaut, was one of the Chehdwara landholders, and had five sons, the eldest Dirgpaul Sing, and the second Prethee Put, the hero of this brief history. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference
The roads were not good; we seemed to be crossing a series of sierras, and when day dawned, after a fresh, almost cold night, we found ourselves amid ghaut-like hills, and wondered when the topmost point would be gained and the descent to Malaga begun. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference
It was supposed to be an alligator, but it was afterwards ascertained that this party of thieves had concealed themselves in the jungle on the opposite side of the river, which at that part was deep, but not very wide, and had a rope with a hook to it extended under water to the ghaut, where the people bathed. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
“ghaut” = crumbled bread and hashed meat in broth; or bread, milk and meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I was in kuching recently when i saw these pieces of equipment at a playground, then memories of playgrounds where i had played and where i used to take my children to came flooding back. even up to the 80s, the old type of swings and see-saws were still around. i remember the see-saws and swings at farrer park and at dhoby ghaut, just across from the rendevous restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
One of these notoriously ghaut-frequenting alligators is well nigh as rich a prize to the poor native who is fortunate enough to capture him, as a Spanish galleon is to a British frigate; for on ripping open his stomach, and over-hauling its freight, it is not unfrequently found to contain 'a choice assortment '-- as the Calcutta advertisers have it -- of gold, silver, or brass bangles and anklets, which have not been so expeditiously digested as their fair owners, victims of the monster's voracity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)] Reference
"Landing at the college ghaut one sweltering July day, the still ruddy highlander strode up to the flight of steps that leads to the finest modern building in Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
A print of a fakir at Benares, standing in that attitude; and if the stream that flowed into the Avon could be combined with the Ganges, and the garden into the burning ghaut, and the swooping swallows into the kites, and the neat parlour-maid who showed him out, into a Brahmin, and the Chinese gong that was so prominent an object in the hall into a piece of Benares brassware, he could almost have fancied himself as standing on the brink of the sacred river. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Lucia] Reference
Manikarnika ghaut the Hindoos burn their dead. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Ghât (ghaut) means a ferry, or crossing-place. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
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