I can't get my khansamah to understand the simplest thing beyond mutton and fowl.
It was, of course, hopeless to search in the dark, though the khansamah and his man had gone as far as they dared with lanterns and shouting, and with the daylight they tried again and were even now away.
You must take your own servant and the khansamah will cook you such simple food as men expect in the wilds, and that is all.
You stay as long as you please and when you leave not even a gift to the khansamah is permitted.
And when the khansamah had said it he deliberately, though obsequiously, barred the way.
The khansamah almost knelt at his feet, and tears of sheer fright brimmed in the old native’s eyes.
Colonel Agnew threw an order at the oldkhansamah over Traherne’s shoulder.
The khansamah returned with the glass and an unopened bottle of Schweppe's, and prepared the drink under eyes that watched him narrowly.
The pseudo-khansamah rose, bowed formally, and shook hands with considerable cordiality.
Like a shadow harried by a wind of night, the khansamahscurried from the room.
The khansamah tiptoed cautiously into the room and found the Virginian sleeping like a log, his head upon the table.
Instantaneously it was the khansamah who confronted the Virginian--the native with head and shoulders submissively bended, as one who awaits an order.
He sat lost in thought until the khansamah brought the decoction, then roused and drank it as it came from the pot, without sugar, gulping down huge bitter mouthfuls of the scalding black fluid.
He turned back, puzzled, to find the khansamah calmly seated at the table and enjoying one of Amber's choicest cigarettes.
The khansamah drew close the shades, and with the other left the room in semi-dusk.
Since when I have had for company one stable-syce, one deaf-and-dumb patriarch of a khansamah and .
The khansamah who attended him had hardly turned low his light when Amber was disturbed by the noise of an angry altercation in the compound.
The khansamah followed her from the bungalow, staggering under the weight of her box and kit-bag, and with Ram Nath's surly assistance made them fast to the front seat.
So I concocted a message to you for an excuse, came down, engaged the khansamah in conversation (I think he had some idea I was an agent of the other side) and .
If I had encouraged him the khansamah would have wandered all through Bengal with his corpse.
The day shut in and the khansamah went to get me food.
The khansamah completely lost his head on my arrival.
If you get angry with him, he refers to some Sahib dead and buried these thirty years, and says that when he was in that Sahib's service not a khansamah in the Province could touch him.
I was khansamah then in the big house where all the Railway-Sahibs lived, and I used to come across with brandy-shrab.
The old khansamah wisely took care to put no tobacco in G.
The old khansamah wanted another day for his arrangements, and it is impossible to refuse him anything, for he never makes a difficulty, and very seldom owns to one.
We began yesterday giving food away in the evening; there were about 200 people, and Giles and the old khansamah distributed it, and I went with Major J.
Having divested himself of the dust with which he was covered, and having restored himself to his personal comforts, his lordship joined our little party, and partook of some dinner which the khansamah had prepared for him.
I had scarcely made myself comfortable, when the khansamah informed me that dinner was on the table.
Whilst we were enjoying ourselves after dinner, on the evening of the Hindoo holiday, the khansamah came in, and announced that two Sahibs had arrived.
With a profound salaam thekhansamah took his departure, followed by the khidmutghars.
Having expressed my satisfaction as emphatically as possible in this book, thekhansamah (house steward) demanded a certificate, which I gave him.
The khansamah came in with a fresh bottle of wine.
But presently cometh mine host of the inn, And soon from the murghi's there issues a din, The heartless khansamah he cares not a jot, The dechie is here, but the murghi is not.
A khansamah or cook provides food and liquor at a fixed and reasonable rate.
He readily assented, remarking that his khansamah should have orders to combine culinary operations with mine.
Fancy that little featherweight saying, 'O khansamah jee' to my bloodthirsty Mir Khan!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "khansamah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
