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Example sentences for "memsahib"

Lexicographically close words:
memorized; memorizing; memory; memorye; memos; men; mena; menace; menaced; menaces
  1. Lady Memsahib done say wish done see Missy Sahib," she murmured, with downcast eyes.

  2. The Memsahib does not receive any one to-day," said the butler.

  3. The Memsahib very sorry, sir, but cannot speak to any one just now;" and he heard the jar of the instrument as the receiver at the other end was sharply hung up and the connection broken.

  4. But it is unlikelee the Memsahib can get accommodations, for there is veree much travel at this time of the year--oh, veree much!

  5. But this Memsahib wore an almost opaque veil, a veil which she lifted only to eat and when in her room.

  6. Venekiah's voice, and he looked over his shoulder to see a Memsahib clatter by on horseback.

  7. I shall stay here, if the memsahib permits.

  8. Worse might have befallen, brothers, seeing that it hath pleased God to make our Memsahib light as a bird.

  9. A rickshaw was coming down from the Mall, and the memsahib was in it.

  10. Clearly he could not deliver a letter to a memsahib who was not.

  11. More I do not know, but it appears that the memsahib has gone to her father and mother in Belaat, being very sorrowful because the Colonel-sahib has left her to shoot.

  12. Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka.

  13. He has to keep us three of course--me and the Memsahib and the other Eurasian.

  14. Ram Dass declares that he said nothing, but walked up and down the verandah all the cold night, waiting for the Memsahib to come up the hill and stretching out his arms into the dark like a madman.

  15. Her own people hated her because she had, they said, become a memsahib and washed herself daily; and the Chaplain's wife did not know what to do with her.

  16. Bisesa raged and stormed, and finally threatened to kill herself if Trejago did not at once drop the alien Memsahib who had come between them.

  17. But no Memsahib came, and, next day, he went on to Simla cross-questioning the bearer every hour.

  18. The nephew does things very shabbily, and I think the Memsahib must help him.

  19. I don't think I shall ever outlive the Memsahib or Tsin-ling.

  20. The servant custom is maintained, even though there is only a Sahib and Memsahib in a family, and one finds what seems a surplus of servants about each home.

  21. May the memsahib never lack plenty from which to give!

  22. I will bless the memsahib at each mouthful!

  23. The memsahib is for three days without a pice.

  24. There was nothing else to carry, and that was fortunate, for the cart in which the memsahib lay was too full of sick and wounded to hold anything more.

  25. The memsahib was very, very ill, she said.

  26. The memsahib had said nothing all this time, had known nothing.

  27. The memsahib will never be better,' said Tooni, sorrowfully; 'her rice is finished in the earth.

  28. Is there a memsahib in the home of the Sahib?

  29. At this her big eyes rose to Barlow's face, and he could swear that there were tears misting them; and sensing that if she had fallen in love with him, what he had said about her becoming a memsahib had hurt.

  30. They have sought elsewhere and not found him; and there is talk--He claimed the memsahib as his share of the plunder.

  31. There will be an ambuscade, from which neither man, nor gun, nor horse, nor memsahib will escape!

  32. Had the memsahib been slain, she had at least died in full view of the English--and there was a battle to be won.

  33. Her orders were either to wait until she knew by questioning that the section would not return or else, when it had returned, to wait until the memsahib and Bellairs sahib slept, and then to make a sign.

  34. They did not in the least understand what it was for; and it used to puzzle them hugely until out of sheer pity for their uneasiness, I implied that the Memsahib collected "medicine.

  35. The last time I went to church was at Hazrigunge when the Commissioner's Memsahib collared me as I was going to bridge.

  36. Memsahib who, to him, was the sun, moon, and stars; the light of the world.

  37. The Collector's memsahib had gone off with the doctor, leaving her little child to the tender mercies of an ayah!

  38. But you yourself say I am the Bara Memsahib of the Station.

  39. And these did he compose out of the rumours current in the market-place respecting Meredith Sahib and the Memsahib he had taken to wife.

  40. With both Sahib and Memsahib awake and watching, who could sleep?

  41. English Memsahib making much fuss, like there is no Got Almighty.

  42. Get my topi, boy, and order the gari quickly," the memsahib called to her bearer.

  43. Instead of going on to the river for her usual evening constitutional, the doctor-memsahib hastened to the station where she caught the last afternoon train for Mattera that she might tell Shama Sahai that she was safe.

  44. She turned away as if to think, murmuring to herself, "The memsahib will surely forgive me if I come a little late.

  45. You have never seen her for you cannot enter our homes as your wives can, but the memsahib has met her.

  46. And so when the missionary memsahib said to him, "You will marry her, won't you?

  47. No, Memsahib, not even then, for it was better that Old Sarah should die all alone than that the memsahib and the dear, orphan children should die too.

  48. The memsahib could do wonderful things, the man said, and without doubt would cure the sick woman.

  49. The memsahib did not leave for several hours.

  50. And then, because the little memsahib was a woman of such mighty spirit, they fell to work.

  51. No, Sarah," the memsahib finally assured her, "you are very much alive and just to convince you I will scold you a little.

  52. The memsahib and the new god would surely save her.

  53. It will be easy enough to enter Bithoor, for all is confusion there, and men come and go as they choose, but it will be well nigh impossible for you to penetrate where the memsahib will be placed.

  54. Your memsahib sat upright; she was very pale and changed from the time I saw her that evening, but she held her head high, and looked almost scornfully at the men who shook their fists and cried at her.

  55. Oh," said the bhisti to whom he put the question, "'tis a little brown cross that the great Memsahib over the black water pins to the dhoti of a soldier who is very brave.

  56. The first thing Minghal Khan did was to fling out of the house some of the European furniture, treading under heel the many dainty nick-nacks which had stood for so much to the memsahib as mementoes of home.

  57. Cockley and his memsahib looking awfully white and fagged.

  58. But no Memsahib came, and, next day, he went on to Simla cross- questioning the bearer every hour.

  59. Morbid sort of fancy I call it; but I've got to do what the Memsahib tells me.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "memsahib" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.