Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilian
Literary usage of Bilian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Colic arising from the passage of intestinal or bilian' calculi through the
intestines. ... bilian ..."
2. Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo by Frederick Boyle (1865)
"The logs and clapboards of bilian* for the new fort are all prepared and lie
along the bank ready for transportation, and some days before we left, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"It is built of solid bilian wood, the poets and beams are prettily ... These bilian
posts are perfectly sound, although I was assured that they must have ..."
4. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S by Edmund Roberts (1837)
"There a another savage race, according to the Malaya, called bilian, who are
covered with hair, and have nails of extraordinary length. ..."
5. Head-hunters: Black, White, and Brown by Alfred Cort Haddon (1901)
"The structure of the house is similar in general arrangement to those I have
previously described, but it is famous for the size of the bilian planks with ..."
6. A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. Ship Mæander: With Portions of by Henry Keppel, James Brooke (1853)
"... cottages are giving place to substantial bilian and plank walled houses, and
in some cases the roofs are tiled, in others covered with ..."
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