"Nepalese" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... third-rate Bowery den. No wonder that the Government of India, when it made a law against indecent pictures and carvings, had to make a special exception for Hindu "religious"(!) pictures. There is a limit, however, even to the endurance of the British Government, and at the Nepalese Temple I was told that the authorities do not allow such structures to be built now. Moreover, it is not only admitted that the temples in many parts of India are the resort of the lowest class of women, "temple girls" ...
— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe
... and leaders: numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... of the masses is rather mixed, being composed of Bengali, Hindi, and Nepalese, though English is almost universally understood, even by the humbler classes. We found a very comfortable hotel at Darjeeling, but discovered that the Hindoo milkman knows the trick of judiciously ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou
... was asking in swift Nepalese after a wealth of salutations was over. "Can but one arm do all this?" waving towards ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 19, 1917 • Various
... capital of Sze-ch'wan. Probably the name used by Polo was Sindu-fu, as we find Sindu in the G.T. near the end of the chapter. But the same city is, I observe, called Thindafu by one of the Nepalese embassies, whose itineraries Mr. Hodgson has given in the ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
