Slim turbaned Indians blew through long pipes of reed or brass and charmed-or feigned to charm-great hooded snakes and horrible horned adders.
TOOTHLESS and turbaned, the porters who loiter at Wagah, on the Indian side of the only border crossing by road with Pakistan, are a frustrated lot.
The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character. " Leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through thebois de boulogne.
I made a roar like an animal at the turbaned merchant, and he struck me hard on the ear so that I fell to the ground. I lay still looking up at him with all the contempt I could bring into my gaze.
