A mugger does not care to be called a father of jackals, and the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut said as much--and a great deal more which there is no use in repeating here.
But that goat I accepted, and went down to the Ghaut in great honour.
I do NOT desire that any children of thine should know that the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut took his only wound from a woman.
The village was deep in flood, and I swam above theGhaut and went far inland, up to the rice-fields, and they were deep in good mud.
The old Mugger knows that a boy has been born in that house, and must some day come down to the Ghaut to play.
At last even I was afraid, for I said: 'If this thing happen to men, how shall the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut escape?
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a mortally-wounded crocodile can scramble to deep water and get away; but the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut was literally broken into three pieces.
That was the Ghaut of the village of Mugger-Ghaut.
But surely I saw Marigold wreaths floating off the edge of the Ghaut only this noon," said the Adjutant.
The vessels used to be moored at the ghaut at the bottom of Hare Street, as there were no jetties in those days.
When I arrived in Calcutta in the sailing ship in which I had travelled out viâ the Cape, we anchored just opposite the ghaut which was then situated immediately on the river bank, approached by a steep flight of stone-steps.
Bourne & Shepherd Site of Black Hole of Calcutta] The whole was of course eventually pulled down, as was also a similar range of buildings in the south of Clive Ghaut Street on which Macneill & Co.
At the top of this ghaut we left five companies of native infantry to protect our baggage, that must necessarily follow through this pass.
The ghaut was high and difficult, being nothing more than a mass of loose stones, by which many of the poor horses broke their knees in getting up.
One ghaut which we were necessarily obliged to ascend was frightful even to look at.
These were signals of alarm, and we could not expect anything less than a desperate effort to drive us down the ghaut again; for the prevention of which every possible preparation was promptly made.
The whole of this distance the country was one general flat, and we did not find any descent till we got near Callenger, where the ghaut is nearly as high.
The next march brought us to the foot of the ghaut we were to ascend.
Tigers of Western Ghaut forests, if unmolested, rarely dangerous to man.
No doubt the two Ghaut inclines add heavily both to locomotive and to permanent way charges, but they do not explain why the working cost per train mile should be double that on the Madras Line.
The Bhore Ghaut is unquestionably a stupendous mass of works, unsurpassed by any others in the world; and probably the nearest rivals to them in magnitude and grandeur are those of the Thull Ghaut.
The south-eastern branch is carried over the Bhore Ghaut by an incline nearly sixteen miles long, with a total elevation of 1,381 feet.
At the end of 3¾ miles there is a reversing station, similar to that upon the Bhore Ghaut Incline, by which the base is lengthened, the gradient flattened, and the incline divided into two banks.
What a contrast between the turmoil and devilry of it and the serene calmness of the all but solitude the ghaut now presents!
Hither the women and children whom an unkind fate had spared from dying with the men were brought back from the Ghaut of Slaughter.
The little temple on the water's edge by the ghaut is slowly mouldering into decay; on the plaster of the coping of its river wall you may still see the marks of the treacherous bullets.
I was sure that we were much lower down the Ghaut than we had been when I was watching for the bears, and we were now going still lower.
Having received on board some fresh provisions for the crew, and gotten rid of our lady and gentlemen visitors, we got under way and stood out to sea, and were still in sight of the Ghaut Mountains when the sun went down.
The reader has observed the Ghaut Mountains stretching along parallel with the west coast of Hindostan.
Being not a great distance from the land, we ran in for the purpose of discharging our prisoners; and descried the Ghaut mountains the next day.
I thought I had seen it rain before, but for an hour, Madagascar beat the Ghaut Mountains.
My stay of five days in the City of Palaces has been very enjoyable, and it is with real regret that I bid farewell to those who come down to the shipping ghaut to see me off.
Next to washing in the sacred stream during life, the Hindoo's ambition is to yield up the ghost on its bank, and then to be burned on the Burning Ghaut and have his ashes cast adrift on the waters.
The domra who holds the monopoly at the Manikarnika ghaut is one of the richest men in Benares.
On the Manikarnika ghaut the Hindoos burn their dead.
Colonel Boldre despatched a body of Probyn's Horse and of his own men under Claude to ride down to the ghaut and take charge of the prisoners.
Alec knew the place well, having stayed there before Ted came down from Lahore; so he took his chum to the ghaut where the massacre had begun, and then to that last sad scene of the murder.
The guns unlimbered, and, after sending a couple of shells after the leading fugitives who had made good their escape, they opened on the ghaut and got range with the second shot.
He glanced up at the mosque as he passed it, recalling how Zynool and he had plotted that this bone of contention should be planted in close proximity to the burning-ghaut of the Hindus.
The site was near the river and the burning-ghaut of the Hindus; and so, of course, they have been up in arms more or less ever since.
It may be he goes up and down the bank of some river, telling how he once passed his hands between the teeth of the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut and lived to make a tale of it.
I do not desire that any children of thine should know that the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut took his only wound from a woman.
At last even I was afraid, for I said: 'If this thing happen to men how shall the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut escape?
A Mugger does not care to be called a father of jackals, and the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut said as much--and a great deal more which there is no use in repeating here.
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a mortally wounded crocodile can scramble to deep water and get away; but the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut was literally broken into three pieces.
But surely I saw marigold wreaths floating off the edge of the Ghaut only this noon," said the Adjutant.
But that goat I accepted, and went down to the Ghaut in great honor.
He had made a ghaut with a flight of steps to his house for our landing, and the 44th Regiment, with their band, were drawn up all round his lawn.
The whole way from the ghaut to the house where the ball was given was carpeted, and there are plenty of troops here to make a street, and our own people turned out in great force.
But it would take a whole week to draw one temple perfectly; the ghaut where we landed was as pretty a sight as any.
We reached Nimtollah Ghaut about twelve, and after staying ten or fifteen minutes, sprinkling the holy water on the dead body, and all proceeded slowly to Kooltollah Ghaut, about three miles north of Nimtollah.
Persons entrusted with the care and nursing of a dying man at the burning Ghaut soon get tired of their charge, and rather than administer to his comfort, are known to resort to artificial means, whereby death is actually accelerated.
Scarcely a single Ghaut exists in a complete state of preservation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ghaut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
