So be ready some twenty of you, and call up the spearmen; the palankeen and bearers, too, for Bulwunt Rao.
They leave the camp to avoid the confusion, and will take care of you, and the bearers and palankeenare still in the street.
Among the serried mass of horsemen could be seen a palankeen closely muffled and jealously guarded, immediately behind which rode the brave old Khan and his son Fazil, with several of his officers.
He and his companions had watched the palankeen from the rocks in the ravine where they had hidden themselves, because, if it had been left unguarded, they would have gone to it.
The palankeen was behind with the Ramoosees and servants around it on all sides.
As the palankeen was taken up she took them out and put them into the woman's hand, who, expecting perhaps a few copper coins, stood looking at them in amazement.
So the Khan's progress in his palankeenhad been watched with intense anxiety as he ascended the rugged pathway.
At length Fazil saw the Brahmuns on the knoll rise and advance a few steps, and the palankeen emerge upon the open space, where it was set down; and his father got out, adjusted his turban and shawl, and stood with the rest.
What the palankeen was to India the sedan-chair is to China.
For traveling on the high roads through the interior each palankeen required sixteen bearers, and if the traveler had more than a very little baggage he was compelled to hire from eight to twelve men to carry it.
Anawah, and tell my bearers to bring my palankeen over to this side of the compound, so that Mrs. F.
Accordingly, herpalankeen and twelve bearers were ready at her door, with two Cowry coolies and a masulchi.
As he made his bow before getting into his palankeen he said: 'It is a pity that your husband did not take your advice.
We had accomplished about half the defile, when I was suddenly and rudely awakened from a dozing sleep by the shock of my palankeen coming to the ground, and by the most discordant shouts and screams.
These are two very amusing volumes of scenes and situations full of stirring interest, as their criticships would say--for example the four extracts immediately following: Palankeen Travelling and a Sortie of Tigers.
Her palankeen was carried on through the door into the place we have described.
The palankeen rocked to and fro, tottered under their failing support, and fell at last heavily to the ground.
And when the palankeen returned, she took her leave.
At last the palankeen arrived, and they soon had the satisfaction to behold the old woman hobble into the room, supporting herself on a stick.
It had been even a comfort to him to watch the arrival of her palankeen daily in the camp, and before that to busy himself in writing the despatch for the Furashes, who prepared the tents for her reception.
The palankeen was set down in the court-yard; and the bearers having retired, she essayed to get out of it, but could hardly support her trembling limbs.
The palankeen was put down, and all waited the issue with much interest and anxiety.
Put the palankeen close up to the door that it may be more convenient,’ he added to them.
Yes, let the palankeen go, and here is my ring: let her know that she is wanted.
Peer Khan held her hands, and the moment her breath was gone, he put the body into the palankeen and shut the door.
I soon saw the palankeen and men about it; and in order to gain some intelligence to guide me, I went to a Tumbolee's shop directly opposite to it, and sitting down, entered into conversation with the vendor of tobacco and pan.
Her palankeenwas broken into pieces and buried with her.
Several times I could not resist riding up to the palankeen and making my noble horse curvet and prance beside it.
We took the best road to Boorhanpoor, that through the valley of Berar and close to the hills; and when we reached the old town of Julgaum, I felt myself so strong that I dismissed the palankeen and once more mounted my good horse.
Through them up the broad roadway came a palankeen borne on the shoulders of coolies and surrounded by torch-bearers and swordsmen.
With my aid, and that of the eunuch who had visited me the day before, they had made their escape, the youth having been hidden in the palankeen of his mother before the latter left the seraglio on one of her occasional visits to the bazaars.
Well, her highness will be, as usual, in her palankeen slung between two mules.
At my bidding the inner gates opened, and they closed again when the palankeen had entered.
That some high-born lady was within the silken coverings of the palankeen every one surmised, and at this extraordinary spectacle a hush of tense expectancy fell upon the assemblage.
The palankeen is supported on the shoulders of four bearers at once,--two having the front pole attached to the vehicle, and two supporting the pole behind.
She got into her palankeen with a dagger in her hand, and as he had seen her determined resolution and proud spirit before exerted on many trying occasions, he doubted not that she would do what she declared she would.
I was on horseback, but my wife and child were secure in a good palankeen that sheltered them from the rain.
I will call a little palankeen to take you to the house of Liu.
Yuch-lang sent her servants to bring a metal casket, furnished with a golden lock, and gave it to Shih-niang, who placed it in her palankeen without opening it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palankeen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
