Government House down to the humblest sepoy and bearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
"It is a lie that the sepoy Pandy was drunk!" cries he. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
"A sepoy running amuck, I'm afraid," replied her friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Barrackpore was informed by a sepoy of his company that the four. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
A sepoy brought the pony, and Flory pretended to examine the curb-chain. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
A sepoy leaned out ... and pointed his musket at the tall figure beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
"Here, sahib!" cried a sepoy who ran up with a comrade carrying a heavy log. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
America's attempts to build an Afghan sepoy army of 250,000 failed miserably. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: America has been here before | Eric Margolis] Reference
Afterwards he was detained by the wazir, and compelled to serve as a sepoy, till. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
America's attempts to build an Afghan sepoy army of 250,000 have failed miserably. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: The Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt Washington] Reference
Nudging his bedfellow hard, the sepoy said: "Awake, sluggard, I wish to go and pray.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
"Nay, the Rani will pay it from her treasury," says I, giving him my shrill sepoy giggle. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
The sepoy regiments were too largely recruited from one race, the Poorbeas of the North-west. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
I sent a poor devil of a sepoy a reprieve last week -- one knows now how he must have felt about it. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Unsuspected by the officers, a spirit of discontent had been gradually spreading among the sepoy regiments. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Perhaps he's right; I've had some of my men scouting the sepoy lines, and they haven't heard so much as a murmur. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
Suddenly a sepoy leaned out of the window of a house close by and pointed his musket at the tall, commanding figure beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
It was the depth of winter, and the sepoy troops, benumbed with cold, and unable to make any defence, were cut down without mercy. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
‘Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones,’ said the wife, scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
The sepoy no doubt believed the man, and told his comrades what was about to happen, and the report rapidly spread to other stations. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
There was just light enough to show us a sepoy sauntering unconcernedly up to the gate, evidently in happy ignorance of what had happened. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
By six o'clock the same morning the colonels of the sepoy regiments had received their orders, and by seven the work of disarmament had begun. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
The loyalty of these sepoy troops had not hitherto been suspected; and in fact they had frequently given proofs of their fidelity in the frontier wars. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
When he turned, none were speaking, but he recognised in the crowd the lowering indifferent face of a sepoy he knew -- one of the Nana Sahib's servants. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
In the midst of the mêlée I observed a sepoy taking deliberate aim at me, and tried to get at him, but the crowd between him and me prevented my reaching him. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
On the 17th of May a Burmese force invaded Chittagong and drove a mixed sepoy and police detachment from its position at Ramu, but did not follow up its success. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Then, groaning in their powerlessness to aid their beloved officer, they listened, as a light danced over the stones from a lantern in the hand of a running sepoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
I don't remember the agonising day I must have spent waiting, and attiring myself in a filthy sepoy uniform, so that I could pass in my old role of 3rd Cavalry mutineer. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
One of these -- a Mahomedan sepoy in the uniform of a Grenadier of the 37th Native Infantry -- stood quietly about thirty yards up the passage with his musket on his hip. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
O'Toole pointed to the small sepoy, who had managed to pull himself well up his rope, getting his elbow in the bight of it, and was tugging at the noose with his other hand. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
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