Perhaps in all the world's battles no more heroic achievement was ever attempted or carried out than the blowing up of the Cashmere Gate.
The bombardment of Delhi proper opened on the 11th of September, when nine 24-pounders opened on the towers and walls at the Cashmere gate.
At all events he formed them into line, posting the 38th on the road that led to the Cashmere gate.
Major Reid, in charge of the column which consisted of Ghoorkas and Cashmere levies, attacked the Kishengunze and Pahareepore suburbs, but were driven back with heavy loss.
Meanwhile the brave defenders had made a dash for liberty and reached the Cashmere gate.
The whole line of works from the Water bastion to the Cabul gate, including the Cashmere and Moree gates and bastions, were in our hands, and also the church, college, and a number of private houses.
It was while executing this work that brave Lieutenant Horne, who, it will be remembered, led the sappers at the explosion of the Cashmere gate, was accidentally killed by the premature explosion of one of his own mines.
It was necessary that the Cashmere gate should be blown up, and this was one of the most daring exploits of the attack.
Brigadier Nicholson was at the head of another column, and he stormed the Cashmere bastion, driving the rebels like chaff before him.
Colonel Ripley was despatched from the cantonments with the 54th Bengal native infantry, which had remained loyal, and the line of march lay towards the Cashmere gate.
The survivors of the gallant little party took shelter, and in a few moments the huge Cashmere gate was blown to atoms.
On the last day of July the enemy made another attempt to break our lines, and appeared in force at the Cashmere and Ajmere gates.
Other guns directed their fire upon the same position, and a ceaseless fire was kept up, so that two days later it was seen that two breaches had been made practicable for escalade near the Cashmere and Water Bastions.
In the guard-house at the Cashmere gate a number of women and children, along with several officers, were huddled.
I'm glad the cashmere has worn well-- aye, that I am, Prissie.
My sakes, child, you have got your best brown cashmere on!
Prissie was the reverse of fashionable in her attire; her neat brown cashmere dress had been made by Aunt Raby.
The best shawls are manufactured in the kingdom of Cashmere itself, though many are made in other Oriental countries, and also in France; and the wool of several varieties of the goat, besides the Thibet, is used in the manufacture.
The Thibet or Cashmere goat is perhaps the most celebrated of the tribe; its celebrity arising from the fineness of its wool, out of which are manufactured the costly Cashmere shawls.
The best Cashmere goats are brought from the Thibet country; and then wool sells for a rupee a pound in Cashmere itself.
It had grown chilly in the room, and Ludowika had an India cashmere shawl about her shoulders.
Essie counted the notes independently, thrust the money into a steel-beaded reticule with silk cords, and rose, gathering together her cashmere shawl.
The Sikhs declare their inability to pay the indemnity of one million and a half, and will probably offer Cashmere as an equivalent.
In this case, if Gholab Singh pays the money demanded for the expenses of the war, the district of Cashmere will be ceded by the British to him, and the Rajah become one of the Princes of Hindostan.
Louisa Alcott can wear her black silk skirt and borrow Queenie's blue cashmere waist.
The former is worked up into cashmere shawls and cashmere bouquet.
The cashmere bouquet of commerce is not made of the common goat.
There are two kinds of goat--the cashmeregoat and the plain goat.
Persia has sent us her carpets for patterns, and Cashmere her lovely shawls, and India her dainty muslins finely worked with gold thread palmates, and stitched over with iridescent beetles' wings.
She wore a black velvet bonnet of the most fashionable make, a large blue cashmere shawl, and a black satin dress, trimmed with sable, to match the fur of her muff.
He wore a black velvet jacket with silver buttons, a scarlet waistcoat, trousers with broad blue stripes, a Cashmere shawl for a girdle with ends loosely floating, and a chimney-pot hat covered with flowers and streamers.
As they left the Star and Garter, Laura Lelas, mounted on Cecil's box-seat, remembered she had dropped her cashmere in the dining room.
The room was darkened from the piercing light without; and in its gloom, as he was ushered in, the scarlet of her cashmere and the gleam of her fair hair was all that, for the moment, he could see.
She wore a dress of gay-colored embroidery, a bird of paradise in her bonnet, and upon her shoulders was a costly cashmere shawl.
And, drawing her cashmere close about her (the mornings are misty by the river) and replacing her bonnet, she left the villa.
I'll speak for that cashmere peignoir that is just cut out.
The great novelist's private study has a floor inlaid with young girl's teeth and hung with superb cashmere rugs that have been sent him by all the crowned heads of the universe.
The only table in the room had a cashmere covering.
The tomb of Mahmood is a sarcophagus about eight feet high and as many long, covered with purple cloth embroidered in gold, and many votive shawls of the richest cashmere thrown over it.
He spread a costlycashmere shawl on the beach, and placed her, still fainting, on this.
It was a beautiful heavy shawl of the soft wool of the Cashmere goats; really of every kind of brilliant hue, but so dexterously blended together, that the whole looked dark and sober.
The choice fell upon a golf suiting for school and a black cashmere for church.
I begged hard to have the cashmere touch the ground, but both women smiled at the folly of the child who forgot the many re-bindings a long skirt would call for.
Marguerite's plain black cashmere with bodice of rich velvet harmonized most exquisitely with her soft spirituelle beauty and set off the purity of the purely transparent complexion.
She is in striking contrast to Louise Rutherford whose black cashmere costume forms an effective back-ground.
The rich and elegant dressing gown of cashmere and velvet had been converted into money and a dowdy-looking stuff wrapper supplied its place.
For how could Jim Douglas, as he more than once passed through the now open and almost deserted Cashmere gate, in the hope, or rather the fear, of finding some trace of her, know that she was hidden within a few yards of him?
And if folk want to hear more, I, Tiddu Baharupa-Bunjarah, can tell tales beyond the Cashmere gate on the river island where the bullocks graze.
An hour or two afterward a subaltern coming out of the Cashmere gate saw a dhooli, deserted by its bearers.
Only through the Cashmere gate, held by English officers and a guard of the 38th, no help came.
So on foot, on horseback, in carriages, the exodus began forthwith; hastening more rapidly when the first man to jump from the embrasure at the Cashmere gate arrived with that tale of hopeless calamity.
The words dinned themselves into a horseman's brain, as he dashed out of the compound of a small house in Duryagunj and headed straight through the bazaar for the little house on the city wall by the Cashmere gate.
And through the open arch of the Cashmere gate, the great globe of the full moon grew slowly from the ruddy earth-haze, then loud and clear came the chime of seven from the mainguard gong, the rattle of arms dying into silence again.
And now another procession came filing up from the city--the two guns returning from the Cashmere gate.
Not Princes in Cashmere shawls who couldn't understand a word of what you said, and mere soubadars cocked up, but real Colonels and Generals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cashmere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
