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Example sentences for "doolie"

Lexicographically close words:
dooing; dooings; dook; dool; dooli; doolies; dooly; doom; doome; doomed
  1. Laid our dak by doolie to Lahore, and, with our hospitable entertainer to guide us, started at five P.

  2. At daybreak the next morning, accompanied by Arthur Bunny, the cheery Adjutant of Horse Artillery, I began my search afresh, and at length we discovered the body inside a doolie under the wall of the Martinière.

  3. Bourke's doolie is very good, but liable to get out of order, and difficult to repair when broken; the ordinary kind is fairly good and serviceable.

  4. He told me that the bearers had put the doolie down and gone off to plunder; that he was in great pain, and wished to be taken to the hospital.

  5. A horse which was being led just in front of my doolie was captured; but I escaped, doolie and all.

  6. And the Duke was fascinated forthwith with the president's knowledge of Nigerian geography, and explained that he had once actually descended from below Timbuctoo to Oohat in a doolie manned only by four swats.

  7. They started off with a wild whoop, threw the doolie up in the air, caught it on their shoulders, and played cup and ball with the contents until they were tired.

  8. The doolie was hitched up, and the kahars resumed their chant: 'A sahib goes up; Yes, he does.

  9. These men regarded the doolie with the invalid inside as a piece of baggage that had to be conveyed from one camp to another, no matter how.

  10. I shall shy at a hospital doolie for the rest of my natural life.

  11. She was not visibly elated when she heard that the doolie contained the first victim of the Tibetan arms.

  12. Adam sat in the doolie with his mother,and Strickland rode and tied with me, a spare doolie following.

  13. I slept till Strickland turned me out of the warm doolie at seven o'clock, and I stepped into the splendour of a cool hill day, the plains sweltering twenty miles back and three thousand feet below.

  14. That May he went up to Dalhousie with his mother, and in those days the journey ended in fifty or sixty miles of uphill travel in a doolie or palanquin, along a road winding through the Himalayas.

  15. The guide became bewildered, and the head of the procession of doolies deviated from the proper route into a square which proved a perfect death-trap, and has passed into history as “Doolie Square.

  16. His name is Mick Sullivan, and he is the son of “the Crayture,” and of the man who died in the porch of “Doolie Square.

  17. Well I knew there was no sun he'd iver see, but I cud not spake, so I wint away wid the empty doolie to find the docthor.

  18. If the affair looks serious we'll send an orderly back to fetch a doolie from the hospital, come on here for you and the Boy, and see you safely to the Fort, where you must stay till further orders.

  19. He found himself lying in a hospital doolie set in the shade on a slab of rock.

  20. Our only means of transport for these poor fellows was the ‘palki’ or doolie carried by four bearers at a curious swinging pace.

  21. I could not then return to the fatal spot, but I sent a couple of men back at once to find the poor fellow, and, if he should be still alive, to get a doolie and carry him to the hospital tent in camp.

  22. A doolie was sent for from the rear, his body placed in it and reverently carried back to camp.

  23. Accordingly in the afternoon the Nawab, who was a heavy, corpulent man, was placed in a doolie provided with a large number of bearers; and once more our tired horses were on the move.

  24. Underneath the trees a few yards away from the little station we found a bullock-cart, which the Russels had sent for my luggage, and a doolie for myself.

  25. It didn't seem nearly such a long way going to the station as coming from it, but Boggley on his bicycle was there long before me and my doolie men.

  26. Suddenly the groaning ceased, and I found myself and the doolie planted on the ground.

  27. A doolie is a kind of string-bed hung on a pole, with a covering to keep off the sun.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doolie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.