dhooly
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dhoolies
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“Then you will lend us a dhooly for this man, and people to carry him?”
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
The orders were given, and a corporal and four men were told off to carry the dhooly, which was found at once, and borne to the mess-room.
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
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
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
In effect the doctor and the men with the dhooly came back just then.
From Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East by William Heysham Overend
Summoned by telephone, the dhoolies came quickly up and bore them away, together with the remains of the dead.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
Behind the cover of the rocks the dhoolies were waiting with their green-covered stretchers.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
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
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
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
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