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karela

n. (context India English) (taxlink Momordica charantia species noshow=1), the bitter melon or bitter gourd.

Usage examples of "karela".

He did that, he thought wryly, but he intended to watch Karela with an eye to treachery.

While the sun was but a red rim shining above the horizon Karela woke, and they rode north again.

Conan was beginning to wonder what the men he sought would be doing so far to the north of the caravan route, when suddenly Karela kicked her horse into a gallop.

Suddenly Karela forced her horse through the pack around Conan, her green cat-eyes glaring down at him.

A bit longer, and these cut-throats would turn him loose and bind Hordo and Karela in his place.

Abruptly Karela burst through the close-packed circle of men, and they edged back from the rage on her face.

With a satisfied nod Karela slammed the tulwar back into its sheath and strode away toward her tent.

The feeling that had come in the camp with Karela, of eyes on him, was back.

The brigands were all on their feet now, and Karela was before her pavilion with her jeweled tulwar in hand.

He started for the smaller man, and stopped with a surprised look at Karela as she laid her blade across his chest.

Hordo looked uncertainly at Karela, but she stood listening as if the talk had no connection to her.

Conan stood looking at Karela, for she had not moved an inch, nor taken her eyes from his face.

His first thought was of Kezankian hillmen, but then, as the hackles stood on the back of his neck, he knew it was the same invisible eyes he had felt that night with Karela, and again before Crato appeared.

Conan refrained from suggesting they might have become affrighted apart from the band and fled, or that Karela was holding the soldiers in too much contempt.

Hordo merely grunted, and the two rode forward to reach Karela as the weasel-faced bandit galloped up.