The khansaman ran to inform the doctor, who had the injured men carried upstairs, where he extracted the bullets and bound up their wounds.
Over the gap in the floor the khansaman had laid the doctor's sitz-bath, in the bottom of which he had pierced a number of holes.
Ahmed could not guess what the doctor and the khansaman were doing, but felt sure that whatever it was the defence would gain by it.
From his position he could see across the landing, through the door which the khansaman had left open, into the opposite room, where a lamp still burned.
Ahmed watched the khansaman narrowly as he said this; but there was no change in the man's expression.
Those who had known Kaluja Dass as the faithful servant of Craddock Sahib might have been surprised at his remaining in the same house as khansamanto Minghal Khan.
Then the doctor, limping to the top of the stairs, gave directions to the khansaman to pour down the plank the contents of a huge blue bottle.
Night being as day to Ahmed in his dungeon, he set to work at once with the file the khansaman had given him.
His brows were drawn down, a deep vertical furrow divided his forehead; he wore a look of worry and embarrassment which accorded ill with his position as khansaman to a subahdar in the army of the king.
The khansaman would acquaint him with a favourable time for making the attempt.
It would at least enable him to learn for himself, perhaps, whether the chaprasi's report about the khansaman was justified.
Ahmed was tempted to agree; but with second thoughts he saw that the khansaman must not do what he had said.
No one but the khansaman knew of the secret entrance through the surgery wall, and it had been a happy thought of his to place the almirah against it, and to make the sliding panel.
And then, interrupting her thoughts, the old khansaman had come in, having taken time to array himself gorgeously in livery.
A big man with gold lace who made the cake at Christmas for the babas and set fire to plum-puddeens as no other khansaman did.
But the khansaman will give you something to eat: and I'll be back as soon as I can.
But the khansaman appeared to have donned, with his clothes, a sense of his own importance.
But fright appeared to have bereft the khansaman of all power of movement.
Chapter 25: In which our hero embarks on a hazardous mission; and Monsieur Sinfray's khansaman makes a confession.
The sun was getting high; being fat and soft, the khansaman was soon in distress.
Before the door, lolling in unstudied dishabille, squatted a bearded, turbaned Mohammedan, whom from his rotundity Desmond guessed to be the khansaman of the big house.
And, I bethink me, he said that the sahib's khansaman was one of these men with lying lips.
Bidding the khansaman stifle his groans, he watched them eagerly through the chiks of the window.
A vicious kick cut short his protestations, and the two passed out of hearing of the two watchers above, the khansaman having brought his quivering flabbiness to Desmond's side.
Who are you, scum of the sea, that you tell a khansaman of Bengal what he shall do?
The khansaman had with much labor managed to mount the stairs.
The night was cold; but snuggled under thick blankets they slept like tops, and did not waken until the khansaman entered with water for their morning tub.
You've got a good cook, Uncle," said Lawrence, when the khansaman had brought coffee.
The cook is Chinese, as I said; the khansaman is a Pathan; there are one or two other fellows whose nationality is an unknown quantity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "khansaman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
