| 单词 | punkah |
| 例句 | So for several days with the punkah swinging over him the convalescent lay stretched out upon his steamer chair, the very picture of comfort and pleasant dreams. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z Look how they make us salaam, and punish us for small faults, and compel us to work punkahs, and to run on foot after their carriages, and insult our gods. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z In one of the rooms was a "punkah," an article of furniture rarely met with in a Chinese household. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Strangers at first find these artificial currents very apt to superinduce headache, until continued residence makes him regard the punkah as a most necessary article of furniture. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Great punkahs, moved by invisible hands, depended from the roof, and, waving to and fro, kept us cool. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Enter Punkah Boy, and sits in corner r., working punkah. Carlyon Sahib 2011-10-23T02:00:21.590Z Black servants or slaves, with white garments, squatted here and there in the hall, pulling punkah strings, and rolling chalk-white eyes at the two officers as they passed. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Shall we arm ourselves with punkahs, and waft sweet southern gales to your fair cheeks?” One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z Large punkahs or screens, moved by a servant who does nothing else, are in common use in hot countries, and particularly India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Till a late hour the punkahs had swung back and forth above the long tables in the dining room, each furnished with one of those primitive contrivances for the banishment of flies. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z They are not affected by wind; they can therefore be used under punkahs, or near open windows, sky-lights, or ports, or in the open air. Wrinkles in Electric Lighting 2011-01-22T03:00:17.277Z In the tropics, he builds houses to protect himself from the heat, and creates an artificial cold by punkahs, electric fans, and the manufacture of ice. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Their friendship was a popular topic of discussion on warm afternoons when feminine Gaya gathered to perspire under one common punkah. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The punkahs and their pullers sat together in the verandah, and the public buildings spawned thermantidotes. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Above, the line of swinging punkahs fanned the thick air with regular beat. Where the Pavement Ends It’s a case of shaded rooms, and chiks, and a black beast swinging a punkah—whom you have to get up and kick every half-hour when he forgets to go on—till about sundown. A Frontier Mystery Every room or office in the houses of Europeans and Americans has its punkah, and even the churches have a great number of them during the hot season. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant At the clubs electric punkahs fanned the air, ice clinked in frosted glasses and home-sick young officers read news-sheets from Britain. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Good people under the punkah, think for a moment of cloud-veiled headlands running out into a steel-grey sea, crisped with a cheek-rasping breeze that makes you sit down under the bulwarks and gasp for breath. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel This was also the hottest time in most of the places we visited, and some of the matches were played in a temperature bordering on 100° F., while the spectators were sitting under punkahs. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches The old clumsy punkah will be replaced by circular fans keeping up a gentle current of air with a minimum of noise or annoyance of any kind. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast Sleep and great heat, in my case at least, are antagonistic, and, as I tossed on my bed, I longed for the waving punkah we have under such circumstances in India. The Truth About America "A-a-ah!" sympathized the Kachin, forgetting the rude awakening—they are as eager for scandal, these wild men of the hills, as the most polished Englishman who sits beneath a punkah in Rangoon Cantonment. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Then comes wave upon wave of ever more sultry air, and the punkahs begin to swing and the white clothes appear. The Passionate Friends The open doors of the deckhouse companion revealed an interior of ivory paneling touched with gold, and hung with heavy velvet punkahs. The Pirate Woman They died in hundreds; remember it was during an Indian summer, and even under the best conditions, with ice and punkahs and shade, the European finds it hard to get through the hot weather. Round the Wonderful World A dinner in a delightfully cool, large room, a punkah waving overhead, brilliant lights, joy on all our faces, a dessert fit to set before a king. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure The air was fresh and cool, fanned by invisible punkahs. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z From its polished ceiling of black billion wood hung great white punkahs, which half-nude Indians on the outside kept gently swaying back and forth. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines The absence of a punkah, a necessity to which he was accustomed, was also a trial. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India The days are hot and damp, and my legs are stiff with cramp, And the office punkahs creak! In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula A towel pinned to the punkah frill brought the faint relief of moving air nearer to Denvil's face. Captain Desmond, V.C. Above the dining-table was a large punkah, which was kept in constant motion during dinner by two young grinning black girls. A Sailor of King George Through their glassless windows great white punkahs swing back and forth with a ceaseless regularity. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines There was no punkah, the glare of the lamplight was blinding, and the food—all of it—coarse, greasy and cold. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Some hotels and residential bungalows have discarded punkahs for mechanical fans; but the complaint is that the electricity costs more than the punkah-wallah—the fan-boy of the East. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan For in those early days nursing was as persistent a feature of the hot weather as the punkah itself, and her skill had been acquired in a hard school. Captain Desmond, V.C. I remarked it contained no bed, but a Spanish silk-grass hammock hung low from the ceiling, over which was a mosquito net and a light punkah within it. A Sailor of King George A great white punkah was lazily vibrating over the heavy rosewood table. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines There was the same absence of punkah, the same glaring light, and succession of half-cooked clammy dishes. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India When white people do anything in Colombo—work, attend church, play bridge, or billiards—a native keeps them moderately comfortable with swinging punkahs. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan From April to October inclusive, the weather is oppressively hot, with a closeness in the atmosphere that renders respiration difficult, and existence, without a punkah, almost insupportable. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. Your Bengalee mounts defences of tattees and punkahs that cool down a hot wind, or whistle air into presence in a trice. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 I slept but indifferently; I missed the cooling swish of the punkah, and all through my dreams the crackle and breaking of glass seemed to mingle with the insistent buzz of the tiger-gnats. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines At night, however, it is so pleasantly cool that one can sleep under a blanket, while punkahs over the bed are never necessary as in the central provinces. Life and sport in China Second Edition We had six bearers, who were employed to carry our palanquin, when we went out, and they also had to keep the punkahs at work, besides having other things to do.” Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good A Javanese boy bowed them into a room where nothing was in evidence save a punkah, a giant porcelain stove, a huge desk and chair, and a monster man. Gold Out of Celebes And at intervals they retired to sit upon chairs in opposing corners, where they rinsed their mouths, and were severely fanned by their bearers, who agitated a large towel after the manner of a punkah. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. A long, narrow table covered with oilcloth and surmounted by a huge punkah, a number of straight wooden chairs and a square red cupboard comprised all the furniture, the whole dimly lighted by two candles. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science I found the night punkah in almost universal use but I thought I would get on without it, and used it very seldom. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The punkah is something like an enormous fan suspended to the roof, and when a breeze is required, it is drawn backwards and forwards with ropes by the bearers. Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good They sat in a large, white room with shuttered windows, beneath a punkah that kept churning up the dead air, beside a carved table on which stood a tray of untouched coffee cups. Sacrifice Electric lighting, initiated in Spanish times, is now in general use, and electric fans—a poor substitute for the punkah—work horizontally from the ceilings of many shops, offices, hotels, and private houses. The Philippine Islands I have long wished to see a punkah, now I wish I may never see another! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah During the day we sit under the punkah, a great wooden fan suspended from the roof with great flapping fringes. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 “How I pity the poor men who are obliged to work at the punkahs.” Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good The punkah, a necessary appendage of every house, is worthy of description. Mark Seaworth A downward jerk of the punkah rope set the great frill flapping with ostentatious vigour; and he himself set to work again no less vigorously; fighting death hand to hand with every weapon at command. The Great Amulet You see the thing above these people, that is the punkah; when it waggles about it makes a cold draught and you get hot with annoyance. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah A horn lantern was suspended from the ceiling, and the air was unstirred by punkah, the heavy, foul air reeking with the sickening, pungent fumes of opium. Civilization Tales of the Orient To-day, the passengers gathered in the handsome saloon were glad to see the doors flung wide and the punkahs vigorously waving, for it was very warm. All Aboard A Story for Girls The punkah waving slowly to and fro, overhead, drives the cool air which comes in through the open windows down upon the table. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire A punkah that may once have been white waggled officiously overhead. The Great Amulet Mr Smyth first speaks of the uselessness of the punkah, and the danger of the wet mats. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 There was a punkah hanging from the ceiling, but it stood at rest. Civilization Tales of the Orient Long, dreary days beneath the punkah in a closed bungalow which has ceased to be enlivened by the voices of the children and the patter of their little feet. A Bird Calendar for Northern India How can one believe one has ever lain sweating with one's tongue lolling out, and listened to the whining creak of the punkah through nights too deadly hot to sleep in! Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" With the leisurely swaying of the punkah, light and shadow flitted across the wide, low bed, on one side of which Honor lay, warmly covered with blankets, her breath coming in laboured gasps. The Great Amulet By way of rendering the air at all endurable, the plan of agitating it with punkahs, hung to the roofs of apartments, the punkahs being moved by servants in attendance for the purpose, is adopted. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 Overhead, the punkah swung slowly, stirring the scented air. Civilization Tales of the Orient So plain it seemed that one wondered at seeing it motionless in the breeze made by the silken punkah swinging slowly to and fro before it. Atmâ A Romance A punkah is to be fitted to make the evaporation more rapid, and perhaps my horse will ultimately appear as a jelly or a lozenge. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege A hand-lamp on the mantelpiece diffused a yellow twilight through the room; a twilight flavoured with kerosine: and across the twilight the shadow of the punkah flitted, like a whispering ghost. The Great Amulet Swaying slowly back and forth was a sort of miniature punkah of waving white canvas. The Miracle Man Outside some one was pulling the punkah rope, and the great leaves of linen, attached to heavy teak poles, swayed back and forth over his head, stirring slightly the dense, humid atmosphere. Civilization Tales of the Orient Before we left England we could not make ourselves believe what we were told about heat in the tropics; so we started with very few windsails and without any punkahs or double awnings. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Overhead the punkahs swung back and forth in lazy hypnotic rhythm. African Camp Fires Too hot to read or write, almost to smoke, they lay in long cane chairs, gasping and perspiring freely, while the whining punkah overhead barely stirred the heated air. The Jungle Girl Although it had no punkah and the heat was great, he had escaped to it from the crowded lounge to be able to think quietly. The Elephant God A burning fever keeps me wide awake till 2 a.m., and in the absence of a punkah, prickly heat prevents my slumbering afterward. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The room was large and open on all sides, and the fresh evening breeze, in addition to the numerous punkahs, made it delightfully cool. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months We could see the two blacks at the ends of the punkah cords outside on the veranda, their bodies swaying lithely in alternation as they threw their weight against the light ropes. African Camp Fires Inside the house the temperature was little cooler despite the punkah which droned monotonously overhead. The Jungle Girl The opportune arrival of a fairly good-looking punkah woman, however, put an end to this form of enjoyment by providing me with what I wanted. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Young men who bring with them from England all the Englishman's love of athletics soon become averse to exercise, and prefer a quiet "peg" beneath the punkah to wheeling or cricket. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama We had service in the saloon at eleven o'clock and at four, and though there was an unusually full attendance it was cool and pleasant even without the punkah. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months The day following I was engaged to pull a punkah in the house of an English lawyer connected with an immense lawsuit involving one of the Mohammedan principalities. Mr. Isaacs The makers and venders of punkahs of all sorts and sizes, children's toys, of earth, wood, or lakh; milk and cream shops; jewellers, mercers, druggists selling tea, with other medicinal herbs. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society And so at last after innumerable years of abuse but useful and indispensable work, the old punkah went the way of all things mundane. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century The punkah of India is a long, narrow fan, suspended by cords from the ceiling; attached to it is another cord which finds its way outside through a convenient hole in the wall or window-frame. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The carpenter has rigged up a punkah, and the men have improvised some double awnings. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months All is ready for the tired traveler, and a boy can be hired for a trifling sum to make the punkah "punk." Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China I have seen very pretty punkahs made of sweet-scented flowers over a frame of bamboo. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society The different inventions that made their appearance always lacked the one essential point of giving expression to the kick or jerk of the hand-pulled punkah, and consequently they proved unsuccessful. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century Most of this time is spent in the pleasant occupation of reclining in an arm-chair beneath the punkah, the only comfortable situation in Delhi at this season of the year. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Even the private soldier Page 410in Singapore has a punkah pulled over his bed at night. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months In the hot weather a boy sits outside and pulls the punkah to and fro with a rope. Highroads of Geography Introductory Book: Round the World with Father The punkah is a large frame, from eight to ten feet long, and three feet high, covered with white Indian cloth, and fastened to the ceiling. A Woman's Journey Round the World The string worked a punkah on the other side of the green door, where the so-called private office was, and where old Hudig—the Master—sat enthroned, holding noisy receptions. Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Among other startling confidences, this olive-tinted gentleman declares that to him the punkah is unbearable, its pendulous, swinging motion invariably making him "sea-sick." Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama You should see the weather I have - cloudless, clear as crystal, with just a punkah- draft of the most aromatic air, all pine and gum tree. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 Between them a waggling punkah fanned twenty cane-bottomed chairs and two rows of shiny plates. Falk A Reminiscence I retreated from there, and crossing the dining room—a very bare apartment with a motionless punkah hanging over the centre table—I knocked at a door labelled in black letters: "Chief Steward." The Shadow Line; a confession It is getting on for ten at night; but we sit with windows all wide open, the punkah going, the thinnest conceivable garments, and yet we sweat, my brother, very profusely.... A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Ludhiana and its dak bungalow, provides refreshments and a three hours' siesta beneath the cooling and seductive punkah, besides an interesting and instructive tete-a-tete with a Eurasian civil officer spending the day here. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama They were without punkahs or ice in the hot weather. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War The latter did the honours of the place and showed us the only 'punkah' at that time known to the West African coast. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I He cast his eyes up to the punkah and that was all. The Shadow Line; a confession In doing this he passed from the range of the lazy punkah flapping somnolently over table and bed. From One Generation to Another A breath of wind, a Border bullet's flight, A draught of water, or a horse's fright— The droning of the fat Sheristadar Ceases, the punkah stops, and falls the night For you or Me. Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads She thought regretfully of a punkah, and then smiled derisively at herself. The Sheik The punkahs go all day—not the flapping kind of Mofussil punkahs, but things like bits of windmills fastened to poles. Olivia in India The tiffin was laid on one end only of the long table, and the punkah was stirring the hot air lazily—mostly above a barren waste of polished wood. The Shadow Line; a confession It is wonderful what a comfort these punkahs are! Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin Two long punkahs flapped languidly in the darkness, with a whine of pulleys. Dragon's blood A dozen more men entered, and the air, already heavy, grew thick with tobacco smoke mingling with the smoke of sandal-wood that floated back and forth in layers as the punkahs swung lazily. The Winds of the World And I had a punkah, or swinging fan, slung from the ridge-pole, and worked by a native from outside. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Enormous punkahs sent from on high a gentle draught through that immaculate interior and upon our perspiring heads. The Shadow Line; a confession Silken punkahs swung from chains, wafting back and forth a cloud of sandalwood smoke that veiled the whole scene in mysterious, scented mist. King of the Khyber Rifles He paused, struck a match, and in an empty glass, shielding the flame against the breeze of the punkah, lighted a cigarette. Dragon's blood And Colonel Kirby hoped it was the punkah, and not funk, that made the sweat stream down his neck until his collar was a mere uncomfortable mess. The Winds of the World The night-light was trimmed; the shadow of the punkah wavered across the room, and the 'flick' of the punkah-towel and the soft whine of the rope through the wall-hole followed it. Life's Handicap Outside the court the sun blazed—within was the wind of great punkahs that made you shiver, the shame that made you burn, the attentive eyes whose glance stabbed. Lord Jim In spite of the great silken punkah that swung rhythmically across the full breadth of the room the beat was so great that the pen slipped round and round between his fingers. King of the Khyber Rifles A flying stone struck the boom of the punkah, and thumped on the table. Dragon's blood Yet he could not study them unless he spread them all in front of him; and without the punkah he felt he would die of apoplexy. Guns of the Gods The punkah was still being pulled over the bed, but Hummil had departed this life at least three hours. Life's Handicap High up in the dim space the punkahs were swaying short to and fro, to and fro. Lord Jim He could just make out the man's blurred shape—a shadow in the shadows—dog-curled, with the punkah rope looped round his foot. Rung Ho! He climbed, or rolled, upon the billiard-table, turned head toward punkah, and suddenly lay still,--a gross white figure, collapsed and sprawling. Dragon's blood The man at the punkah had fallen asleep, but he did not bother to waken him. Guns of the Gods It was impossible to sit still in the dark, empty, echoing house and watch the punkah beat the dead air. Life's Handicap These came out into the stillness wafted on the wind made by the punkahs, and I, watching for their effect upon him, caught only the fragments of official language. Lord Jim "Most of your readers will think 'punkah' is a kind of iced drink or half-time at polo," said Bertie, and disappeared into the steam. The Chronicles of Clovis The punkah, too, flapped incessant, and only made the lamp gutter. Dragon's blood Sita Ram held it by two corners under the draughty punkah while Samson traced the boundaries with his finger. Guns of the Gods She then gently works a punkah, which we have not hitherto observed, and stands at attention. The Admirable Crichton People sleep on Malay mats spread over their mattresses for coolness, some dispense with upper sheets, and others are fanned all night by punkahs. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither She was, it was true, tall, dark, with soft mournful voice and a great kindness of manner for every created thing, from punkah men to flowers on the trees. The Good Soldier Chantel, in the lamplight, watched the punkahs with a hateful smile. Dragon's blood Babu Sita Ram was supposed to be sitting tinder a punkah in the next room, with a locked door between him and his master. Guns of the Gods Long did the punkahs waft their breeze over that brave-hued wheel of pleasure, and the sound of the violins quaver and wail out into the morning. The Patrician There are thirty-two punkahs, and the Indians who worked them, anyone of whom might have been the model of the Mercury of the Naples Museum, sat or squatted outside the church. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither The punkah swished in the darkened room; Leonora lay exhausted and motionless in her cane lounge; neither of them stirred. The Good Soldier He discovered, too, that it was a good thing to lie in the wave of air under the punkah. Actions and Reactions Most aggravating circumstance of all, perhaps, was that the movement of the punkah flickered his papers away whenever he removed a weight. Guns of the Gods A breath of wind, a Border bullet's flight, A draught of water, or a horse's fright— The droning of the fat Sheristadar Ceases, the punkah stops, and falls the night For you or Me. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition One policeman has brought us fresh cocoa-nut milk, another sits outside pulling a small punkah, and two more have mounted guard over us. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither He devised punkahs, became almost nurse and doctor in one, and utterly refused to lose heart. We Two, a novel The curtain of my bed-place swung to and fro as it were a punkah, the bulkhead lamp circled in its gimbals, and now and then the cabin door rattled slightly in the gusts of wind. Some Reminiscences There were just as many insects to annoy him, and the punkah flapped his papers too; but fat though he was, and sweat though he did, his smile was the smile of a hunter. Guns of the Gods The congregation sat under one punkah and the Resident under another, both being worked by bigoted Mohammedans! The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither |
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