 | Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...and glazed, so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men, carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and...commodity by beating on a brazen cup, in which they gave a draught to a passenger for a trifling piece of money. money. With these Were mixed people of... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pages
...and glazed, so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men, carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and...frocks, and others in sheep-skin cloaks; Persians, and Afghaum, in brown woollen tunics, or flowing mantles, and caps of black sheepskin or coloured silk;... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - Afghanistan - 1819 - 562 pages
...and glazed, so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men, carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and announcing their commodity by bdating on a brazen cup, in which they give a draught to a passenger for a trifling piece of money.... | |
 | Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...the handsomest shops are the fruiterers. In the streets are people crying greens, curds, &c., and men carrying water, in leathern bags, at their backs,...passenger for a trifling piece of money. With these are mixed people of the town in white turbans, some in large white or dark-blue frocks, and others... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 858 pages
...paintedand glazed, so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men, carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and announcing their commodity bybeatingon a brazen cup, in which they gave a draught to a passenger for a trifling piece, of money.... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1826 - 480 pages
...and glazed, so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men, carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and...people of the -town in white turbans, some in large while or dark blue frocks, and others in sheepskin cloaks; Persians, and Afghauns, in brown woollen... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1838 - 480 pages
...and glazed, so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men, carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and announcing their commodity by beating on abrazen cup, in which they give a draught to a passenger for a trifling piece of money. With these... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1839 - 466 pages
...and glazed so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and...Afghauns, in brown woollen tunics, or flowing mantles, and caps of black sheep-skin or coloured silk ; Khyberees, with the straw sandals, and the wild dress,... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - Afghanistan - 1842 - 472 pages
...and glazed so as to look like china. In the streets were people crying greens, curds, &c., and men carrying water in leathern bags at their backs, and...Afghauns, in brown woollen tunics, or flowing mantles, and caps of black sheep -skin, or coloured silk ; Khyberees, with the straw sandals, and the wild dress,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...for sal« in the streets. Mr. Elphinstone describes the crowds in the streets as composed of " the people of the town, in white turbans, some in large...frocks, and others in sheepskin cloaks ; Persians and Afghans in brown woollen tunics or flowing mantles, and caps of black sheepskin or coloured silk ;... | |
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... melons, plums, and even oranges, though these are rare at Peshawer, were mixed in piles with some of the Indian fruits) ; and the cook-shops, where every thing was served in earthen dishes, painted and glazed so as to look like china. In the streets... 
