I heard the doolies dumped on the ground, and the shutter in front of my door shook.
But I was curious to know where thedoolies had gone.
By the way, khansamah," I said, "what were those three doolies doing in my compound in the night?
I rode out to meet the battalion on its way into Kohat, and was horrified to see the long line of doolies and ambulance-carts by which it was accompanied.
We divided the baggage and six doolies between our sixteen bearers, and started off, my cousin, the ayahs, and I on foot.
Doolies and dandies are distributed as follows: British troops {doolies, 3 per cent.
Brigadier Pope was mortally wounded (since dead), and the cavalry were only brought up by the Doolies at the general hospital.
Several Doolies were captured by the enemy, and the band instruments of the 2nd Europeans are missing.
The ---- never drew reign until they got right through the general hospital in the rear, knocking over the Doolies and everything that came in their way.
There was a low murmur of sympathy from the soldiers as the doolies passed them, and many a muttered "God bless you, sir, and bring you through it all right.
Why, on the march I have known him, when all the doolies were full, give up his own horse to a man who had fallen out.
A group of officers remained under the shade of a tree near until the surgeon who had ridden in with the doolies came out.
The curtains of the doolies had been removed to allow of a free passage of air, and mosquito curtains hung round to prevent insects annoying the sufferers.
By this time several officers were gathered at the entrance to the General's bungalow, two mounted troopers having brought in the news a few minutes before that the doolies were within a mile.
By the way, khansamah," I said, "what were those three doolies doing in my compound in the night?
On the morning after the entrance, a detachment of volunteers sallied out to escort into the Residency the doolies in which the wounded still lay inadequately cared for.
Too late to save these, the fire of the escort cleared the square, and fortunately no more doolies entered the fatal cul-de-sac.
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.
The return journey from the first was much molested by hostile fire, many of the native bearers bolting, and leaving the doolies to be carried by the escorting Europeans.
Our sick men were placed in doolies to-day, preparatory to their removal to Zeman Shah Khan's house in the city; but their departure was delayed.
As the camels and doolies that conveyed them there returned, they were attacked and plundered; the men were stripped, and had to run for their lives without any clothing, their black bodies conspicuous as they ran over the snow.
Those hundreddoolies went up without the slightest suspicion, and they were ranged around the governor's house.
To each of those doolieswere eight bearers; in the palanquins were their arms, hidden from view.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doolies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
