dhooly
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dhoolies
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Watch him, doctor, and he must take to the dhooly again if he cannot bear it.
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
An hour and a half later, just as the shadows of evening were drawing in, a party of Sikhs put in an appearance, bringing with them a dhooly, in which they placed the injured man.
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
The utter confusion which followed is shown by Lord Robert’s statement in his Memoirs that he found Nicholson lying in a dhooly near the Cashmere Gate, the native carriers having fled.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
I will get the men and the dhooly at once.”
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
It was a last resource; and though the men grumbled, they lifted the dhooly, and I marched by the side.
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
Under the Red Cross flag the dhoolies then began to go out to pick up the results of the battle.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
Next day dhoolies or litters are sent for the guests, or if the hostess is poor she sends women to escort them to the house before daybreak.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The stream of ambulance was incessant—covered mule-waggons, little ox-carts, green dhoolies carried by indomitable Hindoos, knee-deep in water, and indifferent to every kind of death.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
The sick, wet and filthy as they were, had to be hurried away in dhoolies to the chapels and churches again.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
The dhoolies quickly came and bore the wounded away to the Wesleyan Chapel.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
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