I saw another side to the Khalsa when we set out for Lahore after noon, Flashy now riding in state in his jampan, white topper and fly-whisk at the high port, with Jassa kicking the bearers 'arses to give tone to our progress. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers - they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers — they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
But there was something stranger still: I'd just bidden farewell to Sardul's escort and my jampan, and was being conducted on foot by a yellow-clad officer of the Palace Guard, when I noticed an extraordinary figure lounging in an embrasure above the gate, swigging from an enormous tankard and barking orders at a party of Guardsmen drilling with the light guns on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
I suppose I should have made my husband walk by the side of the jampan if. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
They stopped the jampan and appealed to her, but she could not understand a word they said. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
As soon as the jampan tilted they let go, and directly they saw you had gone over they ran away. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
"Didn't you ever feel nervous at first," Elma asked, "when you went out in a jampan on a dark night down a very steep road?". From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
"My jampan went over the side, down the precipice," said Elma, "and I am afraid those poor jampannis must have been killed.". From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
Elma's startled scream unnerved the other runners, who swerved and stumbled, and in a moment the jampan was overturned down the side of the. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
Elma indeed looked a lovely creature when she came out of her room an hour or two later to show herself to her mother before she stepped into the hated jampan. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
Some words are not properly English at all, appearing to be nonce borrowings: jadu, jama, jambee, jamdani, jami, jampan, jararacussu, jasey, Jataka, jauk, jenna, jeziah, jheel, jhool, jicara, ... ka, kaaba, kaama, kabaya, kaberu, kaffiyeh, kaha. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2] Reference
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