Dhaka natives' language

Usage examples of bengali.

Amrita did not understand all of the cascade of Bengali, but she picked up enough to tell me that the porters were upset because they could not divide five rupees three ways.

I felt a sense of vertigo as I tried to fix the lists of Bengali syllables I was hearing with the brown and cultured faces.

Luczak, you are aware that it is a unique privilege to receive the masterwork of a great Bengali poet such as M.

Several times Krishna turned to say something in Bengali, and the boy would reply and I would curse myself for being a monolingual moron.

I know, Muktanandaji spent the entire time reciting the Gettysburg Address over and over in Bengali while Krishna made up the ghost story.

I mention this because it shows the folly of anyone who singles out Calcutta as a bedlam of Bengali insanity.

Tagore sent Yeats a bound edition of his Bengali poetry, do you know what happened?

The boy yelled a sentence in Bengali and the rickshaw-coolie shouted back and broke into a faster trot.

Fragments of Sanskrit and Bengali interrupted clear passages and crawled up the margins.

He slipped into Bengali, then a smattering of French, then a torrent of Hindi.

The man steepled his fingers at me, bowed perfunctorily, and released a veritable tirade of Bengali at the dripping Inspector.

Meantime, keeping tally on the swordhilt against the hour when the score must be made smooth by the blade, it is well for us to assist and greatly befriend the Bengali that he may get control of the revenues and the posts.

Hindustan, must bid the Bengali demand the removal of the residue or set going an uneasiness to that end.

There will be to our hand the scaffolding of the house of State, for the Bengali shall continue to do our work, and must account to us for the revenue, and learn his seat in the order of things.

I recognised a casual acquaintance, a young Bengali law student, called Grish Chunder, whose father had sent him to England to become civilised.