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Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being the Journal of a Tour in India choose

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[Ind] Captain Mundy Pen & Pencil Sketches I 110: The young jemadar, however, soon silenced them with a ‘Chup, teeree!’&c.
at choop, v.
[Ind] Capt. Mundy Pen and Pencil Sketches I 109: [W]hilst we were at breakfast, the servant informed us that there were some gongwalas, or villagers, who had some khubber (news) about tigers to give us.
at khubber, n.
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