Charteris had requisitioned every boat that could be found on the Darwan side, and kept them safely guarded, but it would be quite easy to obtain others if Chand Singh cared to try a naval action.
You are at liberty to choose that if you please, but if you are the man I take you for you will select Darwan and carry on the work that Charteris began.
Evidently I am cut out for pacifying Darwan rather than for domestic joys.
Now came a messenger with a letter from Charteris, written in that extreme south-western corner of his dominions where Darwan and Habshiabad faced one another across the Tindar.
I had taken food to the sahib when Minghal Khan and the darwan came to us with a sepoy: without doubt the darwan had spied me entering the wall.
The darwan uttered cries of amazement and reproach.
He wished that the darwan would be called away, so that he might make an attempt to look in upon them and, if possible, to hear something of what they were saying.
The darwan set his lamp on the floor and went out.
Cordial greetings passed between them; thedarwan had pleasant recollections of the dainties with which he had been regaled by this excellent Pathan at his former visit.
The darwan was clearly vexed at the prospect of losing a feast.
In view of the possibility, he got from the darwan by discreet questions a description of the apartments.
Ahmed entered, and the darwan led him to his own little shed in the compound; and, making themselves as comfortable as the bare chamber admitted, they began to talk in low tones, and to dispose of the eatables which Ahmed had brought.
Meanwhile he went to Fazl Hak with the news of the treachery at Cawnpore; the particulars he had learnt from the darwan were new to the maulavi.
The first was Minghal Khan; then came the darwan with a lamp; the other was a stranger.
Looking through this latter, Ahmed saw the medicine-room of which the darwan had spoken; the bottles stood in array on the shelves of a large almirah.
It was now drawing towards evening; the business of the day would soon cease, and the darwan would be at leisure.
A shot grazed his ear: the darwanhad turned at the bottom and fired.
Corporal) Darwan Sing Negi and Sepoy Khudadad, who were the first soldiers of India to receive the highest military honour that it was in the power of their Emperor to grant.
Darwan Sing Negi was wounded more than once, but he stuck to his work with grim valour, fighting his way foot by foot along the narrow passages, and striking terror into the hearts of his enemies.
Naik Darwan Sing Negi was in action one night in late November near Festubert in France.
In answer to Mr. Johnson the darwan {doorkeeper} at the door said that the governor would not return that night.
Bidding the men remain outside and rush in if he called them, he left the shelter of the trees and, approaching the door, stumbled over the darwan lying across the threshold.
You will tell the darwan that you have gone down to the ghat, so that if a question is asked he will be at no loss for an answer.
The Khwaja will send word to his darwan that he is going to Murshidabad by river and will not return to-night; his house is to be locked up.
It was in this fighting that Naik Darwan Sing Negi, as related on page 170, won the highest award of valour.
Having no key with him, he had to waken thedarwan who lay wrapped in rugs on his mat before the door.
You made the darwan understand he's not to talk, Lawrence?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darwan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
