Then she declared that, as my poor Mahout had been killed in battle, I should never have another, but should only be waited on by servants, having shown an intelligence so superior as to make it unnecessary to exercise control over me.
And myMahout could jab my ear as much as he chose--I refused to obey!
My poor Mahout had breathed his last so quickly--almost without pain.
A few moments later I saw my Mahout advancing towards me, and, without mounting, he led me through the great avenues of the park to the Entrance of the Palace.
But the mahout couldn't speak for rage; and he kept spitting on the ground, and making signs, till really his face was anything but pretty to look at.
When the day came the mahout had a slight touch of fever and couldn't go, but he told his nephew to drive the boys there instead.
And the mahout passed into his hut with a shiver that told of the coming ague.
Hard by the mahoutwas cooking his dinner under a tamarind-tree.
Sometimes the mahout would take Alec down to the river-side, he driving, while Alec lay luxuriously on the pad.
He walked straight to the dead mahout and, carefully gathering him up in his trunk, wheeled round and set off stationwards.
Then the mahout drew out an extra chapatie he had hidden in his clothes.
The water was like a deep canal; nothing was to be seen of the elephant but his trunk, and the mahout standing on his back holding on like grim death by the elephant's ears.
The investiture took place in my tent, and the excellent mahout was much affected, Mr. C.
The mahout would not take any money, so I had it valued and it is worth about forty pounds, and I got Mr. C.
Finally the mahout tapped the blood-spattered elephant with his ankus and began guiding it toward the back of the square.
As Hawksworth watched, another elephant, shining with black paint and the largest he had ever seen, lumbered regally into the square, ridden by a mahout with a gold-braided turban.
Their startled mahout turned and stared in disbelief.
One of the horsemen took careful aim with his bow and shot a barbed arrow connected to a line deep into the steel-net armor of the mahout seated on the neck of Jadar's elephant.
The mahoutgoaded the elephant once more, but still it stood unmoving.
Arangbar paused a moment, then signaled the mahout to proceed.
The mahout goaded it again and shouted something in its ear, but it merely waved its trunk and trumpeted.
Hawksworth noticed Arangbar suddenly order his mahout to hold back his elephant.
The other elephant, larger and brown, had a mahout less skilled but he also clearly was gaining the advantage.
Then the mahout shouted something to the elephant and the animal suddenly reared above the man, crushing down on him with both front feet.
As Kumada tossed her head in panic, the mahout screamed again and plunged for safety, rolling through a clump of brown grass and scrambling toward the soldiers.
Hawksworth vaulted into the howdah and the entire world suddenly seemed to shudder as her mahout signaled Kumada to rise.
He heard his mahout shout in terror as the tiger sprang for the head of their elephant.
The horse seemed to know exactly what was expected, as it instantly reared backward, unseating Jadar's mahout and toppling him into the dust.
Nadir Sharif signaled toward the mahout perched atop the neck of Kumada, and the man tapped her flapping ear with a short barbed rod and gave her directions in Hindi as he guided her toward Hawksworth.
As the mahout fell, his steel ankus clanged against Jadar's howdah, momentarily distracting the prince.
At a word from the mahout and a flourish of his ankus the elephant knelt, a ladder was placed by a couple of servants, and the two officers mounted.
When an elephant can endure without panic an infuriated tiger climbing up its frontispiece to get at the unhappy mahoutand the hunter, that elephant belongs in the courageous class.
To forestall an accident, the mahout was discharged, and for two years he completely disappeared.
The mahout sits on the elephant's neck and directs him by voice and by the use of a goad called ankus.
True, there was a Mahoutonce that went too far--but what am I saying?
I had a Mahout who never stuck the sharp iron goad in my head at all.
There were five elephants in all, the first showily caparisoned with a mahout in splendid livery, the others more seriously equipped for the hunt.
The biggest made a devilish fine fight; if it hadn't been for my mahout I mightn't be here now.
One, as his mahout or superintendent, and two as leaf-cutters, who bring him branches and grass for his daily supplies.
Your father is a mahout out there in India, isn't he?
The mahout talks to the elephant in a low voice all the time, and the elephant seems to understand it all and to be pleased with it; and he obeys every order in the most contented and docile way.
The mahout bores into the back of his head with a great iron prod and you wonder at his temerity and at the elephant's patience, and you think that perhaps the patience will not last; but it does, and nothing happens.
The beast then went to his mahout and gently touched him with the tip of his trunk and awoke him, as much as to say, 'All is finished, master, according to your orders.
Then I saw the mahout tell the elephant to go to the pile and place them in line along the track, at the ton of one is in the museum at St. Petersburg, and portions of the hair and skin are preserved with it.
He then, with a long wand he had for the purpose, measured off the distance and accompanied the elephant, who carried the pole to the place the mahout indicated.
The mahout awoke, mounted the elephant, and went forward to continue the line in the same easy and agreeable manner.
I saw one mahout conduct his elephant to-a pile of these heavy poles and tell the intelligent animal to pick one up.
The Mahatma, as active as a cat, climbed up behind the chief mahout and sat astride the elephant's neck in the place where the secondmahout had been, and began whispering.
At any rate, it worked and themahout threw a handful of coins to him.
Ismail prayed that Allah might make the mahout as potbellied and idle as his elephant; and the mahout suggested to a dozen corruptible deities that Ismail might be happier with a thousand children and wives who were true to him.
The mahout spread out the end of his turban by way of begging bowl, and the Mahatma shook all the money into it, so that Ismail gasped and the mahout himself turned up his eyes in exquisite delirium.
King showed him the courtesy of considering it, and was silent for perhaps two minutes, during which the mahout judged it opportune to whine forth his own demands.
And it would not make the slightest difference now what kind of cock and bull story the mahoutmight tell to the Maharajah.
Instantly the mahout began petting him, calling him endearing names and praising his wisdom and discretion.
You see that he is talking to the chief mahout now?
Suddenly I recalled a remark that King had made on the beach and it dawned on me that by frightening the mahout into silence the Mahatma might undo the one gain we had made by that plunge and swim.
Mahatma said to him, and the mahout did not wait for a second command, but mounted his elephant's neck, kicked the big brute up and rode away, in a hurry to be off before he should wake up and discover that the whole adventure was a dream.
Nobody is troubled about keeping the underworld in its place, so mahout or sweeper has the ear of majesty as readily as any other man, if not even more so.
He suddenly charged, knocking over the tame elephant next to me, the mahout breaking his leg in the fall.
A mahout had his hand smashed; and we held him while the surgeon amputated his finger and thumb.
Chota Begum was deeply touched by these attentions, and one morning my mahout informed me that she wished, out of gratitude, to lift me into the howdah with her trunk.
I tried cajoling her as the mahout did, and assured her that she was a "Pearl" and my "Heart's Delight.
Nothing, on the other hand, can be more comfortable than a well-appointed howdah, where one is quite alone except for the mahout perched on the elephant's neck.
I then ordered Chota Begum to go on, using the exact words the mahout did.
As to questions of lineage, and the morals of Chota Begum's immediate progenitors, I can only hope that the mahout exaggerated, for he certainly opened up appalling perspectives.
This evening he performed various feats: taking the Mahout upon his back by his trunk, then putting out his forepaw for the Mahout to climb up that way; roaring, when he was told to speak, and then salaaming and taking his departure.
The raja's mahout was in the habit of taking his elephant along that street, and every time it passed, it rubbed itself against the wall of Gumda's house.
The mahout knew that it was Gumda's curse that had so affected his charge.
When Gilfain's mahout pointed with his goad to the bulbul's squawking approach, the Englishman cocked both barrels of his Paradox and waited.
Mahadua advised: "If the mahout will tickle Bahadar with his hook so that he speak now and then, perhaps Moti, being lonesome and remembering of cakes and home, will come back like an angry woman who has found peace.
With a roar of disgruntled anger he bounded away toward cover in the cane, pursued by Gilfain, whose mahout had driven the elephant across at the sound of the tiger's charge.
Ordering the mahout to pick the girl up, he dropped to the ground.
The mahout told me at the keddah that Rajah Ananda was particularly pleased with Moti; had a look at the bell and petted her when they got to the palace.
He has seen us and will not come out," the mahout advised.
The mahout reeled up from somewhere near Bahadar and salaamed drunkenly, a foolish, deprecating leer on his lips.
Moti's mahout was squatted at the tamarind to which she had been chained, the broken chain in his lap wet from tears that were streaming down the old fellow's cheeks.
In obedience to the mahout she knelt down; but as Finnerty unlaced the leather band that held the bell she cocked her ears apprehensively and waved her big head back and forth in nervous rhythm.
Ananda called, themahout checking their elephant some distance away.
The man's lips parted, and one hand went up towards his head, while the mahout who had brought him looked back with his face full of horror.
The doctor fired, but it did not check the onslaught, and the brute bounded right on to the elephant's shoulder and tried to claw its way into our howdah, as the mahout yelled with horror.
His rifle was to his shoulder in a moment, there was a flash, a sharp echoing report, and the mahout shouted "Bagh!
They turned the curve of the last slope, and heard the shout of the mahout far ahead.
The youngest mahoutwent from his place and sat near, as Kudrat Sharif continued: "The black elephants are all but gone.
Then turning to the men on the ground, the strange mahout said wistfully: "Look on me with compassion, oh men of honour and of fame!
It came to where the master-mahout stood, close to a pile of tenting, wheeled to face the way it should go presently, and sank down to be loaded.
Nut Kut jerked Skag tight (it was like a hug), released him deliberately and turning, put his own sick mahout up on his own neck, with a movement that looked like a flick of his trunk.
Without warning, he flicked his mahout off his neck and set him precisely on the ground--the movement so quick no eye could follow his trunk as it did it.
Horace waved his hand to Mitha Baba's mahout; and the mahout shouted something in a dialect Skag did not know.
This mahout must be one of the great ones, else the master-mahout would not have spoken to him.
A mahout was examining his ears--folding them back and feeling of them--laying his cheek against the inside surface.
The mahout had managed to reach a tree in time to save his own life and was crouching on a branch, with his head buried in his arms.
The Nerbudda took his mahout and covered him quite as deeply as the crowd had covered his messenger at Hurda.
It is a good hearing," said the very old man, as they all bent their heads; and the youngest mahout carefully arranged some specially good tobacco in Ram Yaksahn's hookah.
I can recall when Mitha Baba's mahout was one of the most wonderful of them all.
On each elephant there were now two riders, the mahout and a man behind, who, armed with a piece of hard wood into which two or three spikes were inserted, hammered the animal about the root of the tail as with a mallet.
For a moment I feared that the courage of the mahout would give way in that pell-mell career, and that he would slip the rope which bound the two animals together.
Having finished our inspection, and the pay of an unsuccessful mahout or two having been stopped, Jung entered into a long disquisition upon the subject of the wild sports of the Terai.
His mahout was calling him endearing names and using the ankus alternately, promising him rum with one breath and a thrashing with the next.
A terrified mahout emerged through the debris like a devil from bell's bunkers, calling to his elephant all the endearing epithets he knew, and cursing him alternately.
But the funeral was a very thirsty one, and on the eleventh day the mahout had not returned.
So he must be looked after while the mahout puts on a coat and turban, and, armed with his ankus or goad hook, of gilded steel, and a fly flap of yak tail in a silver handle, is ready to mount.
But the mahout had a large family and appropriated one of the cakes.
Here the mahout re-established some sort of control, swung him round, and brought him back to be taken off roped and chained, in deep disgrace.
Then he wheeled round, the mahout pounding at his forehead with his iron goad, to the other end of the arena, where another elephant was going down the incline towards the lower part of the city.
Another tale, for which I do not claim implicit belief, tells of an elephant who with his mahoutwas engaged to root up bushes in a tea garden.
No mahout would begin to think of his placid self-contained charge along this line.
The first was slung down, hismahout on his neck, to the water, as it seemed from the deck, a lascar clinging to the chain to let go the swivel.
It was the Raja's pleasure to officiate as mahout on these occasions.
The wise elephant turned the pile over and laid out the eleven cakes in a row, trumpeting loudly when the master came by; so that mahout was beaten with shoes.
But the thievish mahout is responsible for the worst of his belly-pinch.
In vain the Mahout of the elephant that was attacked strove to turn his beast, which had been suddenly paralysed by fear; but the wild one appeared to have no revengeful feelings against his fellow.
While they all looked on, without being able to afford the least aid, the wild elephant had seized in his trunk the Mahout of the one he had attacked, wheeled him round high in the air, and dashed him upon the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mahout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coachman; driver; hack; teamster; truckman; wagoner; whip
