Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawahs
Literary usage of Sawahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"Here the whole expanse of plateau was spread out before us, glittering with the
reflection of sunlight from thousands of sawahs. For miles ahead the country ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1821)
"... English or other Christians, as well as all other Residents, are required to
plant rice for their subsistence, either in sawahs or ..."
3. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1821)
"... agreeably to the ancient institutions of the country: that is to say, if they
plant in sawahs, not less than five bamboos of seed by each male adult ..."
4. Tropical Holland by Henry Albert Willem van Coenen Torchiana (1921)
"The road winds through a lovely landscape where the sawahs or rice fields of the
... Some of the sawahs are level stretches of irrigated agricultural lands; ..."
5. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1905)
"Communal labor is more common than communal landholding, ¡is even after the title
of "sawahs" or paddy fields has become vested in individuals ..."
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