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Piscine Kashmiri Adj Fish Padma Succumbed Sorceries House

Word piscine
Definition adj. Of or concerning fish.
Sentence Padma has succumbed to their piscine sorceries; but in our house, we were infected with the alienness of Kashmiri blood, with the icy reserve of Kashmiri sky, and remained meat-eaters to a man.
Source Midnight's Children, p. 114

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