He had stopped in the act of pulling his palankeen curtains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

The Rani's maid? — then the lady of the palankeen must be ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

It came from the palankeen, towards which our run had taken us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

Well, her highness will be, as usual, in her palankeen slung between two mules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

'My royal mother is in the palankeen, and craves for sanctuary in your zenana.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

It did not need the presence of the two mounted dandies by the palankeen to tell me that this was a highly senior officer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

We saw the lights, and heard music, but presently all was still, and many came out, to a palankeen in which ladies travel, and so away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

She considered me, one smooth dusky arm up on the swing rope - and then I recognised her: she was the ladies 'maid who had been standing by the palankeen at the palace gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

She considered me, one smooth dusky arm up on the swing rope — and then I recognised her: she was the ladies 'maid who had been standing by the palankeen at the palace gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

My maid and I went in a bad sort of palankeen, though convenient for these roads, which are the worst I have seen; however, the view made up for the difficulty of getting to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

That some high-born lady was within the silken coverings of the palankeen every one surmised, and at this extraordinary spectacle a hush of tense expectancy fell upon the assemblage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

This being received in discourteous silence, they put me in a sedan or palankeen, and brought me into the Country, although I objected strenuously and spoke quite sharply, but to no avail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman's Lady]

We were trotting off the maidan, which was fairly empty that morning, except for a palankeen escorted by a couple of officers, which excited my curiosity a little, when Iqbal suddenly shouted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

He, with others, had been carrying me about in a palankeen all day in the hot sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Death into Life]

Captain Hollings 'groom was shot dead, and one of his palankeen-bearers was wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference

Her fine large eyes shed many a tear as she was getting into her palankeen to return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

The palankeen and dolie of the plains are by far too heavy and cumbrous for the hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877] Reference

Most of the hadjys were mounted in the Shebrye, a sort of palankeen placed upon the camel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

The physician obeyed; and putting his poor maimed wife in a palankeen, he set forward upon the road with all his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

At each of these stages, relays of sixty palankeen-bearers and six torch-bearers were placed by the Post-Master at Cawnpore.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference

He mounted his horse and rode by the side of her palankeen, with a pair of pistols in his holsters, and a good sword by his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

They set out immediately, leaving all their armed followers in their camps, and taking only a few personal attendants and palankeen bearers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference

Chamberlain of the Haram, who was borne in his palankeen immediately after the Princess, and considered himself not the least important personage of the pageant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

Chamberlain, FADLADEEN, (the only persons, of course, admitted to her pavilion.) sufficiently enliven those many vacant hours, which were devoted neither to the pillow nor the palankeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

My wife returned to her palankeen as soon as we had crossed, but our little boy came on with me on the elephant, to meet the grand procession which I knew was approaching to greet us from the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

A good dry English blanket to wrap round him from the palankeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

"That was some rich lady's palankeen I saw tonight, and many servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

"At my bidding the inner gates opened, and they closed again when the palankeen had entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

"To my surprise a gallant youth, some twelve years of age, sprang through the momentarily parted curtains of the palankeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

(patarras) appended to bamboos, and carried by men: these, with two torch-bearers (mussalgees) to each palankeen, completed our cavalcade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)] Reference

In bungalow and palankeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II] Reference

Then the lady of the palankeen must be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

(Marryat, 1836), paideutics, and palankeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4] Reference