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Gunner Jingo’s Jubilee choose

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[Ind] ‘T. Bland Strange’ Gunner Jingo’s Jubilee II 517: Upon the Major’s head was the Battery fatigue cap, wedge shaped. [...] A big rent on the opposite side was sewn as only a bachelor or a grass widower could sew it.
at grass widower, n.
[Ind] ‘T. Bland Strange’ Gunner Jingo’s Jubilee 281: A pic-nic in the crimson rhododendron forests. A ball, too, and peacocking about. I must leave all this civilisation, it is rather overpowering, and I am not used to it.
at peacock, v.
[Ind] ‘T. Bland Strange’ Gunner Jingo’s Jubilee 190: A strange bearer came. ‘What’s the matter, Ram Sammy?’‘The sahib was drunk in the doctor’s tent, and I put him to bed’.
at Ram Sammy, n.
[Ind] ‘T. Bland Strange’ Gunner Jingo’s Jubilee I 204: ‘Hi, Jingo! You’re the man! A stupid old sub of the old sort, none of your cursed competition wallahs!’.
at wallah, n.
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