| At the foot of the veranda a chokra lay on his back in the sun, pulling the punkah rope with his heel and shading his face with a broad strip of banana leaf. |
| He discovered, too, that it was a good thing to lie in the wave of air under the punkah. |
| The absence of a punkah, a necessity to which he was accustomed, was also a trial. |
| A flying stone struck the boom of the punkah, and thumped on the table. |
| There was a pause during which I seemed to hear the regular gentle swish of the punkah and the steady buzzing of the cicadas in the sandalwood trees. |
| There was a punkah hanging from the ceiling, but it stood at rest. |
