Lexicographical Neighbors of Pikuls
Literary usage of Pikuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Branch (1889)
"For a debt of three pikuls—$6o to $75—a man might be enslaved if his friends
could not raise the re- - quisite sum, and he would continue to be a slave ..."
2. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1915)
"The Titi Mining Co. produced 8300 pikuls of tin and 1600 pikuls of wolfram; they
are working three lodes; ..."
3. The History of Java by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Sophia Raffles (1830)
"M ~"' The quantity of coffee delivered to government in the year 1815, exceeded
seventy thousand pikuls; about thirty thousand ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Henry Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams (1902)
"or pikuls, carried by the Indian Bearer Company, which General Buller informed
him were to be found with the Field Hospitals. Twice in the morning of the ..."
5. The Selangor Journal: Jottings Past and Present (1894)
"71366 pikuls 1892 . 52.300 1894 ... 90395 The traffic earnings for the mouth of
January, ... In January of last year the total weight exported was pikuls ..."
6. A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by Frederic Moore (1858)
"Of this quantity, about 100 pikuls are the produce of the caverns on the south
... About 50 pikuls are from caves belonging to individuals, while about 50 ..."
7. The Truth about Opium: Being the Substance of Three Lectures Delivered at St by William H. Brereton (1882)
"... giving a total of 97000 pikuls. This, it must be borne in mind, is the production
of Western China only. In Shantung, Chihli, the inland provinces, ..."
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