There were such a number of elephants, that the clash at meeting was very great, and very destructive to the howdahs and hangings.
The sentries are withdrawn from all the private tents, and all the silver howdahs and waggon loads of shawls, jewellery, arms, &c.
A great many howdahs were broken, and it is a mercy that some of the people were not killed, for the Nawâb scatters money as he goes along, and the natives get under the elephants to find it.
Many of the old fashioned howdahs are far too heavy; a firm, strong howdah should not weigh more than 28 lbs.
Between every two howdahs are four or five pad elephants.
Several howdahs tower high above the line, the polished barrels of guns and rifles glittering in the fierce rays of the burning and vertical sun.
Our guns rattled, the chains clanked and jangled, the howdahs rocked and pitched from side to side.
Run, boys, and tell the men in the other towers to fire at the howdahs of the chief elephants; let the rest of them fire at the artillery.
There was also confusion visible in the howdahs of the other elephants.
When they came to a field, the muleteers set them down on the bare ground and left, taking animals and howdahs away, leaving them without food or luggage, and with no roof over their heads.
Accordingly the muleteers came back as well, seated the travelers in the howdahs again, and they went on to Hamadán.
At this the district head, with a crowd of people, broke into the house and carried off their belongings; then they seated the travelers in open howdahs and drove them from the city.
The howdahs for the main wives were fashioned from gold, with gratings of gold wire around the sides to provide a view and an umbrella canopy of silver cloth for shade.
Several of the elephants had clusters of two-pound swivel guns mounted on their backs, a few had rocket launchers, but most carried howdahs filled with Rajput archers.
Elephants stood near the back of the courtyard, howdahs on their backs, waiting to be loaded.
Provisions were purchased at Kholby, and, while Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg took thehowdahs on either side, Passepartout got astride the saddle-cloth between them.
The princes and nobles sit in these howdahs to the number of two or four, and are very gorgeously attired in Oriental costumes.
Hermione," she said, "I simply HATE howdahs and cobras and swastikas and all those Oriental things!
And just think of India, with all its yogis and bazaars and mahatmas and howdahs and rajahs and things!
So he had designed to slay me on my homeward way, and, the deed accomplished, would rely on gaining access to the citadel by loading his ruffians into the howdahs of my elephants.
For his reception the whole host of our enemies had been drawn up, and in the middle of the curved line was the massed troop of some forty elephants, their howdahs crowded with spectators eager to witness the joust at arms.
When the elephants were properly saddled with the howdahs Umballa gave his attention to the prisoners.
Put the howdahs on the two elephants," Umballa ordered.
In one of thehowdahs sat Bruce, armed; in the other, Pundita, trembling with dread.
Imperceptibly a great change had come over the silent Howdahs in these five years.
All the inmates of the Howdahs stood in a row by the fence and gazed at the approaching wonder.
As soon as the party arrived, those who were on horseback dismounted, took their stations upon the howdahs of the elephants, and collected at the corner of that side of the jungle at which the animals were to be driven out.
The howdahs were veritable thrones of the precious metals, shaded by the most brilliant canopies, and the war-elephants belonging to some of the Central India and Rajputana Chiefs formed a very curious and interesting feature.
Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skillful Parsee.
And it was dark: so black that the occupants of the howdahs could not see each other when close together, and the only way to avoid the boughs which brushed against them constantly was to crouch as low down as was possible.
Before the great portals were ranged two lines of elephants with the State silver howdahs and trappings of heavily embroidered cloth of gold.
On the backs of the splendid tuskers intended for the shooters were howdahs fitted with gun rests and seats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "howdahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
