Early the following morning the elder thief went out with the cow to the fields, not forgetting to take with him a charpoy for his ease and comfort; and the younger thief began watering the plant.
But the worst of it was, that our thief had to run about the meadow with the charpoy on his head, for he could not put it anywhere for fear it should be taken away.
He took the cow beside the tank which the younger thief had spoken of, put his charpoy under the large tree hard by, and then let the cow loose.
If you take a charpoy [26] with you, you will have a merry time of it.
When the other neat-herds who were in the meadow saw the elder thief running about in breathless haste after the cow with the charpoy on his head, they clapped their hands and raised shouts of derision.
A wild-eyed Babu rose from the fixed charpoy and said in the best of English, "Good morning, sir.
The thief having placed the charpoy where it was, had taken it in his stride, vaulted the verandah rail, avoiding the steps, whipped around the corner of the bungalow, and disappeared.
The watchman, having heard his master's guest depart, now came from the servants' quarters to place his charpoy beside the door for his nightly sleep.
Think I'd like to turn in, if you've got a charpoy for me.
We forgot all about The Boy's follies, and only thought of the poor Thing on the charpoy and the scrawled sheets in our hands.
The Boy was dead on the charpoy in the centre of the bare, lime- washed room.
Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.
Pitched under a walnut tope--the climate delicious, like a warm English summer, but it is rather hot in my small tent in the middle of the day; so I have my Charpoy put outside in the shade and lie there smoking my pipe and thinking.
And he laid it down in a corner near the charpoy placed for him, and covered it with a roll of cloth.
There was a possibility that he might then raise himself above the charpoy and be seen.
At the fakir's words one of the men spat upon him; then he was cast to the floor behind a charpoy that lay on one side of the entrance.
He pushed the bundle inch by inch until it came to a position where in a few moments it must fall over the edge of the charpoy to the floor.
His legs were drawn up to avoid the flames from a charpoy already half consumed.
Hazur, my eyes were heavy with sleep, but before seeking my charpoy I went, as is my wont, to see that all was safe for the night.
The kindly villagers, unaccustomed to seeing a Sahib without someone attending to his comfort, bring me a charpoy to recline on, and they inquire anxiously, "roti?
The cry of the forest prowler is repeated, nearer than before to my quarters, and presently something hops up on the foot of the charpoy on which my recumbent form is stretched; and still continues the pattering of feet on the floor.
My charpoy is placed on the porch facing the east, and soon the rotund face of the rising moon floats above the trees, and the silvery tinkle of the bells is followed by a chorus of jackals paying their noisy compliments to its loveliness.
He cursed it bitterly and got up and moved his charpoy into shadow.
He scraped a heap of gaily-coloured native garments off one end of the charpoy and motioned Amber to the chair.
He returned to hischarpoy with spirits considerably higher.
It was quite dark inside when Sunni pushed open the door, but the old woman, slumbering light, started up from her charpoy with a little cry.
A charpoy is a bed, and everybody in Rubbulgurh puts one outside, for sociability, in the evening.
There was a charpoy in one corner, and under the charpoy a locked box.
Brace's charpoy creaked, and he uttered a curious laugh even in Hindustani.
Even his well regulated system seemed to stir uneasily at the thought, and stretched upon his charpoy here at midnight in one of the wildest tracts of wilderness in the world, Helston Varne felt as if sleep would never visit him again.
Helston Varne, lying on his charpoy in his sleeping tent, felt very far removed indeed from going to sleep.
The Boy was dead on the charpoy in the centre of the bare, lime-washed room.
At this moment Desmond said no more, but in the dead of night, when all were asleep, he leaned over to the Babu's charpoy and gently nudged him.
He pulled a charpoy to the door, and sat down upon it, as much outside as within.
A fierce cry broke from the Gujarati, who had been moaning under his charpoy in anguish from the lashings he had undergone that day.
A fierce cry broke from the Gujarati, who had been moaning upon his charpoy in anguish from the lashings he had undergone that day.
At this moment Desmond said no more, but in the dead of night, when all were asleep, he leant over to the Babu's charpoy and gently nudged him.
A shallow pond, therefore, was dug some little distance away in the hard-baked earth for my charpoy to stand in, and since we could not get the locusts out of the tent, we determined to take the tent away from the locusts.
Here my tent was pitched, and with a feeling of restful security I sat upon my charpoy and enjoyed the cool of the evening.
The same evening a man was brought on a charpoysuffering great pain from a "strangulated hernia.
They pulled out a charpoy from one of the tents for me to sit on, and tea was brought--why, I don't know.
His house was not very far from the Palace gardens, and I found him seated on a charpoy under the trees in his garden: one or two friends and a Hakim sat with him.
Tell us all about it," said Bracy as he lay partially dressed outside his simple charpoy bed in the small room Doctor Morton had annexed for his officer patients.
One rather removed from the rest, and lying on a charpoy instead of the floor, was evidently Sher Singh himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charpoy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
