Hindoostani
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I hurried on in much anxiety, as my wife did not speak Hindoostani, and neither ayah nor bearers spoke English.
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No difference can be more marked than between the Hindoostani and the Malay.
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On the third occasion he returned, with a bullet-graze on his knee, swearing strange oaths in Hindoostani, and saying that all things were ready.
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Once acclimatised, a Hindoostani seems able to stand anything.
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It used to be said in my regiment, the 1st Assam Light Infantry Battalion, now 42nd, that Hindoostani recruits spent their first three years’ service in hospital!
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