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Down in the cabins the tired men slept peacefully; stillness and solitude.
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In company she dreaded contempt; and in solitude she only found anxiety.
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Here was solitude indeed; a dozen neighbours in all, simple labouring folk:
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The solitude in the glare of the broad August sun was oppressive.
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He said we were in the midst of solitude three miles thick.
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He always went into purdah for three weeks after a new Finance Act.'
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This radical innovation -bicycling -it did damage the institution of purdah.
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Men and women can meet outside of the purdah, when they ride on bicycles.
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She was other than they were; out of purdah; out of caste; a being apart.
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The Treasury said this was because the UK is in purdah before the general election.
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A strange place to meet one of the purdah-nashin (veiled women) he muttered.
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There are certainly many disadvantages in the purdah system.
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We who have done away with our purdah should not be stumbling blocks to others.
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Peshawar lies in the highly conservative province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where strict purdah is observed.
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The purdah system has done much to maintain the honor and respect of the higher class ladies.
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The Freshman Class had a spirited discussion as to the benefits and evils of the purdah system.
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Freedom does not mean simply coming out of purdah and taking undue advantage and misuse of liberty.
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Any rudeness, any act of dishonour, provoked endless feral scheming within the airlocked hothouse of their purdah.
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The purdah is good-ifyou know how to make use of it and not be ruled by it.
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But he would not, and the woman slipped like a shadow behind the purdah and no word said.
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So the purdah fell about her.