daggers

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Think for a single moment of the vast contrast between either of the Egyptian pyramids, or these bell-shaped dagobas, with their plain stuccoed coverings, and that modern shrine and tomb combined,—the Taj Mahal of Agra.

From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The last three terraces form sweeping circles, flanked by bell-shaped dagobas resembling gigantic lotus-buds.

From Through the Malay Archipelago by Richings, Emily

The former are simply the ancient cetiyas, called dagobas in Ceylon and zedis in Burma.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

The pyramids and dagobas are crude, barbaric embodiments of bulk and imposing loftiness; the other is a realization in marble of a poetic dream.

From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Two pagodas, or dagobas, of solid brick, each of them more than two hundred feet high, tower up before one as he enters the town.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins