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Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: The domestic hearth of ‘Our Doctor’ is cheered with a better half, who is the sharer of his joys.at better half, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: The domestic hearth of ‘Our Doctor’ is cheered with a better half, who is the sharer of his joys. Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: ‘Blackey’ must be ape-like, it is his nature too and whether to dig, to rake, to drill, to plant, to sow, Blackey must repose on his hams.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [H]aving been profusely bled by the Bank, his opinion might be somewhat biassed.at bleed, v.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Thus have we conspired with the good Mrs. Byle in the inauguration ‘blow-out’.at blow-out, n.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Then jungles, fakeers, dancing-girls, prickly heat, / Shawls, idols, durbars, brandy-pawny.at brandy-pawnee (n.) under brandy, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Turmeric is pronounced to be a ‘brick,’ as [...] his range of vision being limited, he can't ‘twig’ all the ingenious devices brought into play.at brick, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: There, now, an invitation to dinner !—to a ‘Burra Khanah,’ literally a grand feed ; [...] They are invariably celebration feasts, to record some important domestic event, as the anniversary of their wedding, birthdays, and the like.at burra khana (n.) under burra, adj.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: But you really must call upon Mrs. Turmeric!—she is the Burra Beebee , the great lady of Kabob.at burra beebee (n.) under burra, adj.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: The chaff of his fellow subs.at chaff, n.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [J]ails—crops—remissions—duties—salt—police,— coupled with thannahs—cutcherries—ryotwarry—beegahs— zameendars—chowkees [etc].at chokey, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Chouse Lall, the great Koprawallah , is eternally at her house. I see his big bundles blocking up her door every day.at chouse, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Dhalbat is a clipping rider.at clipping, adj.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Eat the air? Yes, and a grateful refreshment indeed, after being cribbed, cabined, and confined [...] for the many and the dreary hours of an Indian summer day.at crib, v.4
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [He] married a ‘darkie’—a pure and unmitigated specimen of the mild Hindoo; one of those dusky daughters of the East.at darkie, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Then we are told of the hop last night [...] which was pronounced to be ‘deadly lively’.at dead, adv.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: A capital rider is Mrs.
Byle, and a dead hand at the polka.at dead hand (n.) under dead, adj.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: The sable patriarch offers to immolate a second fowl [...] but we decline [...] as our morning's experience of the dish, popularly called ‘a sudden death,’ does not warrant our indulging in a repetition.at sudden death, n.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: An old English drag, imported by General Bamboo, and with which the old general ‘stuck’ the Nuwab when be went home.at drag, n.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [O]pinions that are expressed relative to the last night’s ‘feed’ at the Ganders [...] that the turkey was the leanest old bird in creation.at feed, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Seeing that you don’t filch your exercises.at filch, v.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [A]s for Chutney, his immediate superior, he
considers him to he a downright gaby of the first water.at gaby, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Caesar and his immediate followers devote their undivided attention to an aggrieved grunter.at grunter, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) preface: [T]he ‘Qui Hye’ of Bengal, the ‘Mull’ of Madras, and the ‘Duck’ of Bombay, adhere to and defend their own customs with jealous warmth of feeling.at qui-hi, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [A] hotter and a duller hole is not to be discovered by the most enterprising [...] tropical traveller.at hole, n.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: There is a grand feed at the Chutneys’, and Mrs. Teapoy of ours is to have a hop.at hop, n.1
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: But note the putting-to; would it not convulse a genuine English Jarvie to behold.at jarvey, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [T]he wants of coming visitors, who drop in to ‘have a jaw’ with the Colonel,.at jaw, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: The Jehu [...] clambers on his perch, handles his ribbons as he would a bunch of carrots; flourishes his long-lashed whip [...] until he breaks into a canter.at jehu, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [T]hose abominations of wheeled carts, objects of terror to incipient Jehus and shying horses.at jehu, n.
Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: Our Griff his his own jock [...] one Pyjamer, an
Oriental breaker-in of horses.at jock, n.2
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