(1) I so want to be oiled by a nice clean punkah wallah.

(2) The punkah wallah fell asleep over his task

(3) 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.

(4) I could tell it was her because of the punkah wallah holding a large sign bearing the words u2018Tessa Jowell IS HEREu2019.

(5) A retired punkah staggers from one pulley to the other.

(6) Back in town, among the most distinctive digs are the Hotel Sofitel Central, a palatial, seafront pavilion of louvres, punkah fans and armies of gardeners.

(7) An ideally positioned bar and lounge under an open-thatch roof is cooled by the silent swish of punkahs , and decorated in harmonious green, cream and ebony.

(8) You can imagine yourself in a stifling ballroom in Calcutta, full of feverish gaiety, while punkahs languidly stir the air.

(9) Aware of the famous punkahs at Brisbane's Tattersalls Club, Addison's punkahs - his first - also form part of a strategy of passive environmental control.