| The absence of a punkah, a necessity to which he was accustomed, was also a trial. |
| The punkah, a necessary appendage of every house, is worthy of description. |
| He discovered, too, that it was a good thing to lie in the wave of air under the punkah. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Everything is done very lightly, as if a punkah were brushing by one's face. |
