The Village in the JungleHansa, 1974 - 307 pages |
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Page 69
... mind , would feel it most heavily . He was a man who never forgot what he considered a wrong done him . He could wait long to repay a real or imaginary injury : the repay- ment might be made in many divers ways , but until it was repaid ...
... mind , would feel it most heavily . He was a man who never forgot what he considered a wrong done him . He could wait long to repay a real or imaginary injury : the repay- ment might be made in many divers ways , but until it was repaid ...
Page 83
... mind could think of nothing but the impending evil . The banian- trees of the ruined village of Bogama obsessed his mind he knew that ruin waited for him there , and yet a horrible desire to see them was always present with him . He ...
... mind could think of nothing but the impending evil . The banian- trees of the ruined village of Bogama obsessed his mind he knew that ruin waited for him there , and yet a horrible desire to see them was always present with him . He ...
Page 284
... mind was dying . It is what usually happens in the jungle - to women espe- cially — the mind dies before the body . Imper- ceptibly the power of initiative , of thought , of feeling , dies out before the monotony of life , the monotony ...
... mind was dying . It is what usually happens in the jungle - to women espe- cially — the mind dies before the body . Imper- ceptibly the power of initiative , of thought , of feeling , dies out before the monotony of life , the monotony ...
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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo Amara Devi anger angry Appochchi Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha buffalo called charm child cloth Colombo compound daughter deer devil elephant evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando fever fool girl give grain hami hand hang headman hear heard Hinni Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave leopard listen live looked magistrate months morning Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Appu Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble veddas vederala village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko