No difference can be more marked than between the Hindoostani and the Malay. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The quantity (sometimes not trifling) and quality of his meals, the consequent state of his digestion, and his endless rows on the score of accommodations and forage with thannadars, darogahs, kutwals, and all the other designations for Hindoo and Hindoostani jacks-in-office. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
He conducted all in Hindoostani (?), his native tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life] Reference
To withdraw without being compromised was a most perilous operation, for I was surrounded, while the enemy were shouting and cheering, beating up troops, and calling out to us in French and English, as well as Hindoostani, that we were in their power. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
A pack of Hindoostani cards, in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, and presented to Captain Cromline Smith in 1815, by a high caste Brahman, was declared by the donor to be actually 1000 years old: ` Nor, 'said the Brahman, ` can any of us now play at them, for they are not like our modern cards at all.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2] Reference
It would seem that this principle of rhetorical pause ought to be easily grasped and applied, but a long experience in training both college men and maturer speakers has demonstrated that the device is no more readily understood by the average man when it is first explained to him than if it were spoken in Hindoostani. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Public Speaking] Reference
French and German, Hindoostani, Pushtu -- which is a tongue ... ". From Wordnik.com. [Flash For Freedom]
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