The names of the two sahibs were so mispronounced by the Beluch that I could not, to save my life, understand what they were.
I inquired whose caravan it was, and the Beluch said it belonged to two English Sahibs who were ten miles behind, and were expected to catch it up during the night.
These three rooms were all one, and they held a big table on which the Sahibs played every evening.
I was khansamah then in the big house where all the Railway-Sahibs lived, and I used to come across with brandy-shrab.
They headed it off down the path to the Mall, and Tods went home in triumph and told his Mamma that ALL the Councillor Sahibs had been helping him to catch Moti.
But theSahibs are all dead now, and the Railway runs, you say, nearly to Kabul.
A billiard room for the Sahibswho built the Railway.
It stood on a bypath largely used by native Sub-Deputy Assistants of all kinds, from Finance to Forests; but real Sahibs were rare.
By his directions the young sahibs laid hold below; and, both together, raising their feet from the ground, remained for some seconds suspended in the air.
The young sahibs had adopted his suggestion with alacrity, without staying a moment to question its propriety; and both were up the tree almost as soon as the shikaree himself.
Mother would always make us lie still until the very last minute; but almost always, sooner or later, the Sahibs would come galloping on their horses right in amongst us.
If all the Sahibs could have known that feeling, even as you did, O Sa'-zada, perhaps they would hunt us less.
Then, as one, we'd give voice to the hunger cry together, until even the Sahibs would shout in fear.
I saw the Sahibs all at their eating, for the door was open, it being hot; you see, he thought I wouldn't come back so soon.
But it seemed the Sahibs wanted to take me alive, so they dug another hole close to the one in which I was, put a big wooden cage with a door to it down, and then with long spears broke through the walls between the cage and the hole I was in.
And when he was in Calcutta with his ship I would be put in the Zoo, so that the Sahibs from all parts might hear my speech.
Now the trouble was this way: Mother was so big and strong that the Sahibs on their ponies always galloped after, thinking her a Boar.
It was all done to save the Tuskers, for while the Sahibs were chasing Mother, many an old chap has saved having a spear thrust through him by clearing off to some other bund.
None of the Dwellers thank us; and sometimes in their anger the Sahibs who are making the drive shoot us for our trouble, saying that we have spoiled sport.
It was on Borongo Island; two men, Sahibs they were called there, you know, lived in a bungalow built on high posts, after the manner of all houses in that land.
But what if we did eat a trifle of the grain; was that excuse for the Sahibs killing us?
So to the Red Road away they hied, And to water it well is now their pride; When the sahibs drive there in the cool of the day.
He was eager to save all the pice he could, that when the season was o'er, And the sahibs all left and went down to the plains He would have of rupees a store.
Priest-sahib say, very important; the sahib and mem-sahibs must go away from here before sun get up to-morrow morning.
People hereabout all telling that the sahib and the mem-sahibs very great saints; much holy, like Buddha.
Knowing that servants' ears were animate dictaphones, the two sahibs ate breakfast in comparative silence, the strenuous morning after the black leopard having braced their appetites.
Coolies had been sent on with provisions in round wicker baskets slung from a bamboo yoke, and soon the three sahibs started.
When the two sahibs came out to where the Safed Jan Trail wound along the bed of a nala approaching the palace plateau, their guide said: "Just beyond is the new cave.
Spellbound by the atmosphere of this Homeric duel, the sahibs had crouched, motionless, scarcely breathing, held by intense interest.
He also said that some one was telling the natives that the sahibs were trying to destroy their religion by killing their jungle gods.
We will drive to my place of banking, then my carriage will take you to the palace, and the sahibs will not see you walk in.
Why should the young of the sahibs go forth to do a man's work, huzoor?
If the sahibs hear the small cry of a tree cricket they may come forward.
The forest was dark from the drop of night's curtain when the Banjara and his brother came so softly along the scarce discernible trail that they were almost upon the sahibs before they were heard.
The Banjara scowled: "As to that, the black leopard has had neither food nor water to-day, and if the sahibs sit up over the pool in Jadoo Nala they may see him drink.
At Finnerty's elbow the shikari whispered: "Tell the sahibs to talk, so that we come not in a startling way upon the Pundit, that he may escape in peace.
Any of the sahibs who like to stand behind us can do so if they do not come within the line of those posts.
Changes which they referred to the fact that the new-fangled sahibs were not real sahibs.
There was the knowledge of his forbears' pride in their victories, in their sahibs who had led them to victory, and the knowledge of their pride in the veriest jot or tittle of ceremonial law.
So we are not to have sahibs to rule over us,' he said, looking black as thunder.
It was a nicer place than Delhi; there were more sahibs in it, and the presence of the "ghora logue" (i.
Newasi, thou thyself wouldst laugh at those new-come Bunjarah folk I told thee of, who imitate the sahibs so well.
Do the sahibs think us cowards that they drive us so?
Mungul weeps every day and prays the sahibs may return, because his last month's account was not paid.
The sahibs will have to use those of the common people, and so many are away from their boats that it will not be long before I can get padungs enough.
The young Sahibs might wait and watch by a water-hole," said the hunter.
He saw everything: the fight, the English Sahibs and their ladies taken to the palace, and the houses burned by the people.
The Sahibs must hide beneath the mats; the men can hide their good padungs and sit in the boat and fish and chew.
The young sahibs have been trained by me to be silent when seeking wild creatures in the jungle, Sahib.
The Sahib said he would like two more coo-ahs; would theSahibs like to lie in wait for them?
Then I came straight up to the gate, and the sahibs were going to shoot me, for my face was so blackened by the fire and smoke that they did not know me till I spoke.
Surely Sree would not try to cheat the good Sahibs and his Prince by playing tricks like an Indian juggler.
If we go as we are, your servant and the men could perhaps make the second king and those with him believe that they were friends; but whether by night or by day, if the sahibs try to get there, they will all be speared.
If the sahibs will get on to the floor above us and stay there with the men, it is very dark to-night, and Adong and Lahn might go with me in the boat.
If the place is in the hands of the rebels," he said, "the Sahibs would lose their lives directly they landed.
Yet, the day that sahibs condescend to study the convenience of their Indian domestics, the prestige of the British Raj will be at an end.
Meals went forward with clock-like regularity, whether the sahibs were inclined for sustenance or not.
At the Club, the sahibs and memsahibs played tennis and bridge and enjoyed their cold drinks as usual, just as though there were no sanguinary battles raging afar, such as the world had never known in all its history.
What knowledge have we of what thesahibs do, of what they can do?
Meanwhile in the well-lighted bungalow in which all the sahibs were gathered together the servants were hurriedly preparing a supper such as lonely Malpura had never known.
All sahibs have unreasonable habits, and not even a constable can guess which one will not make trouble for him.
He may enter even when the sahibs are away from home.
The revolver alone, in that country in those days, would sell for enough to take him to Bombay, where new jobs with newly arrived sahibs are plentiful.
However, since the dog-cart continued to stand still in front of the gate, he turned the guard out as a matter of routine; one never knew when sahibs will not complain about discourtesy.
The Sahibs drew upon the Granadeers for the other watchers.
The Sahibs could draw upon all the armies in England for the other watchers--thousands upon thousands of fresh men--if they needed; but these four were but four.
Eight kings had been commanded to come--who obeyed--but upon his own Sahibs the new King laid no commandment.
It isn't as if we were dealing with Sahibs nowadays.
Write on this tablet that the miss-sahibs are to be delivered to the charge of Rissaldar Ali Khan and his wife, for conveyance to Fattehpore, and bid thy servants help the rissaldar in every possible way.
As it chanced the three sowars took one oar and Chumru helped the sahibs with the other, and the two sets of rowers were partly screened from each other by the horses.
It may be that this Mohammedan gentleman wondered if he had acted rightly when the emissaries of the Nana scoured the country next day for news of the miss-sahib and two sahibs who rode towards Lucknow in the small hours of the morning.
English sahibs do not visit at the houses of Indian gentlemen.
He was anxious to show the young sahibs the wild beasts in the gardens; not only Oliver, but Horace also.
But then they all entertained a private opinion that these English sahibs were utterly incomprehensible, and on some points downright lunatics.
The industrious one had seen no sahibs at all pass by.
Beyond the bridge we could see through the gathering dusk many house-boats of the sahibs clustering under a group of magnificent chenars, over whose dark masses the moon was just rising, full orbed.
A billiard-room for the Sahibs who built the Railway.
But from the beginning to to-day I would cut the throats of all the Sahibs in the land if I could.
This is Tibu's gallery, but where are the four bricks where they used to put their huqa fire on when the Sahibs never saw?
I was khansamah then in the big house where all the Railway-Sahibs lived, and I used to come across with brandy-shrab.
His wife would not suffer him to be strapped down, and he was so violent that it took four or five other Sahibs to hold him.
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.
They were ushered through an inner courtyard surrounded by cloisters, in the shade of which a few Natives awoke to salute the Foreign Sahibs as they passed.
In a few minutes the girl returned with the information that the Foreign Sahibs had mounted their horses.
It is my will to see the Foreign Sahibs alone in the Darbar hall.
The Commissioner and Captain Sahibs will shortly arrive at the palace to seek an audience.
All Sahibs are thus charmed, and very many Hindoos.
That is the custom of the Sahibs when truth is told in their presence," said Faiz Ullah.
The native stationmaster, torn between his dread of official reprimand for delaying the mail and his fear of displeasing the Sahibs of his town, almost wept as he implored the party to end their farewells and let the train depart.
General Bower was as full of good stories as ever; and long after the sepoys had turned in for the night their slumbers must have been disturbed by the hearty laughter of their Sahibs in the Mess.
Below us the hundred and sixty coolies collected as beaters squatted and smoked until the Sahibs were ready.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sahibs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
