He was a short distance beyond the mouth of the alleyway when a gharry rolled by.
Thus ran his thoughts as the woman alighted from the gharry and crossed the compound.
I can't ever thank you enough," she told him as they left the gharry and entered the hotel.
As the gharry drew up, the slow, familiar voice at his side spoke to the driver--in Burmese, Trent imagined.
We got out of the gharry and clambered into dwellings airy like packing crates, or descended into places sinister like cellars.
His uniform acted as a passport, the dak-gharry crossed the drawbridge and crept through a narrow tunnel, and he found himself standing in the great inner parade-ground of the fort.
All conversation gradually stopped, and you only heard the number of the gharry or carriage shouted out with a rich brogue and sometimes a little stifled joke and a "Chelo!
Started fairly early this morning for the Pagoda, and sat outside it in a gharry pulled up opposite the entrance porch and steps.
However, the people wept when they saw their king and queen being so unexpectedly hurried away in a gharry to go "Doon the Water" in Denny's steamer, in November 1885.
If he had thoroughly understood the conditions, I concluded, he had better jump into the first gharry he could see and drive on to Stein's house for his final instructions.
He made no other movement, no gesture, no sign, and remained facing in the new direction after the gharry had swung out of sight.
The Babu, on the other hand, hailed a third-class gharry and, ascending into it gave the driver some whispered instructions.
The gharry drove on past the Bengal Club, and came, at length, to the native town.
His business in the town being transacted, he got into a gharry with the parcel and drove to the hotel.
For about half a mile we trudged along, when, suddenly turning a slight bend in the road, we sighted a gharry ambling along with one door open.
Beyond, the gharry stood in readiness, and by it was Atcheh, the trunk and shirt-box already strapped in place.
A whip cracked, the gharry started; in a moment it was on the road.
For an hour over a road beside which the Corniche is commonplace indeed, the gharry rolled on.
He was wholly absorbed in his own discomfiture, and the gharry drew up and halted at the wharf before he was aware that Siak had been reached and the journey was done.
The gharry had now reached Ballygunge Road and drew up before the wide entrance door of the Melford's flat.
You'll easily pick up a tikka-gharry at Truelove's.
He passed out to the street again and hailed a tikka-gharry to drive him to Ballygunge Road without further delay.
At last I managed to pick up a gharry and here I am, full of contrition for my bad behaviour.
Seated in his host's gharry as they rattled along the bustling streets, Rayner contrasted it with the leisurely ongoings of the Mount Road in Madras, and the comparison seemed to him all in favour of the Europeanised city.
Presently the paving-stones were left behind, and the gharry rattled along a soft dusty roadway lined by trees, though the presence of lamps indicated that they were still in the suburbs.
Whenever the gharry thrashed over the tram-lines, she closed her eyes.
Stephen Arnold should lean into the gharry to see that she was quite comfortable.
The ticca-gharry ponies were almost spent, and any resolute hand could have impelled them away from the carriage-pole with which the roans threatened to impale their wretched sides.
We were driving along in our gharry in the dark with the shutters (viz.
A gharry took us to the landing-pier, and so late as it was, we had no choice but to take a "sampan" to row across in the moonlight to the ship.
You give the driver of your gharry a chit as much as you do your tradesman; and at the end of the month they employ a "chitty," who charges some small percentage to collect these chits.
A gharry drove us through the town, past the Roman Catholic church, whose tapers were lighted and bell tolling, along by the green lawn that forms a cricket-ground, bordered by the sea.
As I sat in thegharry outside the station, waiting for C.
Our driver lay on the ground groaning, thrown some yards away by the force of the concussion; the two horses formed a medley of legs turned uppermost, and lay as still as if they were killed; the forepart of the gharry was stove in.
In the chowk, family women are allowed to walk, because down this inner street of the native quarter or bazaar no gharry can come, but even many of these cover their faces when abroad.
Suddenly the gharrystopped abruptly; there was a loud cry from the gharry wallah, a confused medley of Burmese voices, and I sprang up to find we were surrounded by a large body of evil looking men, armed with "dahs.
While our ponies were saddled, and our baggage transferred from thegharry to the bullock cart in attendance, we walked round the village, very glad to stretch our legs after the cramped ride.
The door of the gharry was narrow, and they could only come at me one at a time.
I have often wondered what are the secret workings of the "Gharry Wallah's" mind.
Glad we were of daylight to go on shore, and set off in a gharry at seven o'clock to the open arcades where the curio shops are.
By nine o'clock the sun on the top of the gharry is overpowering.
In the street he found a gharry after a while and drove to his hotel.
This last was perhaps as well, for the attackers were so weak with laughter at the sight of a very dignified Turkish general in full regalia crawling from under the gharry that they were in no condition to put up a serious fight.
The driver of the gharry lost his head and his seat simultaneously, the vehicle overturned and pinned the unfortunate occupant underneath, and the escort surrendered hurriedly several times over.
It transpired from interrogations of passers by that no gharry driver or Malay policeman had heard of the General or even that such a personage existed--X.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gharry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
