Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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... temple , which would never be allowed in an ordinary Jaffna Hindu temple . Every evening the image of the God was carried in pro- cession to the other temple - a kind of juggernaut pro- cession with the pilgrims following or rolling ...
... temple , which would never be allowed in an ordinary Jaffna Hindu temple . Every evening the image of the God was carried in pro- cession to the other temple - a kind of juggernaut pro- cession with the pilgrims following or rolling ...
Page 228
... temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a Buddhist Sinhalese villager . When I told his story to my servant , a Hindu Jaffna Tamil , he said that that was " all tales " : the God is Kandeswami and no one else . But he ...
... temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a Buddhist Sinhalese villager . When I told his story to my servant , a Hindu Jaffna Tamil , he said that that was " all tales " : the God is Kandeswami and no one else . But he ...
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... temple and mutatis mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London's Victoria Street , selling their candles and images of the Blessed Virgin . I went into the temple , where in 1910 I had often gone to talk ...
... temple and mutatis mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London's Victoria Street , selling their candles and images of the Blessed Virgin . I went into the temple , where in 1910 I had often gone to talk ...
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afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service civil servant Colombo completely Court curious deal deer District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht enquiry extremely face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen immense Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese social Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf