The Kharias say that their original occupation is to carry dhoolies or litters, and this, as well as the social rules prohibiting them from carrying those of certain castes, is in favour of the derivation of the name from kharkhari, a litter.
They are much in request on the Assam tea-gardens owing to their good physique and muscular power, and they make the best bearers of dhoolies or palanquins.
Behind the cover of the rocks the dhoolies were waiting with their green-covered stretchers.
The sick, wet and filthy as they were, had to be hurried away indhoolies to the chapels and churches again.
Summoned by telephone, the dhoolies came quickly up and bore them away, together with the remains of the dead.
Under the Red Cross flag the dhoolies then began to go out to pick up the results of the battle.
The dhoolies quickly came and bore the wounded away to the Wesleyan Chapel.
To-day's bombardment nearly destroyed the tents and dhoolies of our field hospital, but did little else save beheading and mangling some corpses.
Half an hour afterward, a little procession of Royal dhoolies passed out of the Palace on their way to Elahi Buksh's house beside the Delhi gate, and Ahsan-Oolah walked beside the Queen's.
A bystander, also in the Moghul dress, laughed broadly at the well-worn inuendo on the possibilities of curtained dhoolies in intrigue.
That, when Rose Tweedie had taken advantage of Mrs. Boynton's absence to desert the dhoolies which were the only alternative conveyance across this peculiarly sandy march, had been impounded for the young lady on account of its easy paces.
Went into the garden early, and heard that some women and children had been brought in from Setapore in dhoolies (palanquins for the sick) led by a sergeant who had his arm in splinters.
He said he had had a most narrow escape; going to the churchyard, a shot struck the ground directly between the two dhoolies carried in front of him, and covered them with earth!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dhoolies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
