In 1850 the rumblings of the storm, which was to break seven years later, could already be heard, and Napier had much anxiety over the mutinous spirit rising in the sepoy regiments.
For this offence the sepoy was tried and hung, and on his trial the whole truth of course came out.
When I said that I had forgiven, the sepoy became (as I have told) a blaze of light, and then knelt again and kissed the hem of my dress.
The figure sprung into a standing position, and lit up from head to foot, when I saw the two men standing together, Arthur Yelverton Brooking and the Madras sepoy who had murdered him.
On this occasion he regarded the black rebellion in the same light as the Sepoy revolt.
He was as much enraged by the Sepoy rebellion as were those who blew the ringleaders from the muzzles of guns.
One sepoy was stabbed to the heart by a fanatic, who rushed at his bayonet and, pushing himself along, fell dead as he struck his fatal blow.
I wanted to see the campaign, so I took the place of a sepoy who had died and, as I speak the language perfectly, it has never been suspected that I was anything but what I seem.
Then the havildar must take me to one of the sepoy tents, and mention to the men there that I am Mutteh Ghar's cousin; and that, as a great favour, I am to be allowed to accompany the regiment.
That is what I should have given to any sepoy who made so useful a shot, and it will be rather fun to see how he takes it.
In one corner of the Fort we saw a group of natives, who were being admitted in parties through a gateway, and conducted by a sepoy through a subterranean passage.
It was no sepoy that was moving at the centre of this feud: the objects towards which it ultimately tended were not such as could by possibility interest the poor, miserable, idolatrous native.
No reproach on the character of their manners was ever alleged against their British officers by any section or subdivision of the sepoy soldiery.
The sepoy simulated, in order that he might dissimulate.
The most prejudiced Frenchman could not fail to observe that nosepoy regiment ever alluded to any rigour of treatment, or any haughtiness of demeanour.
And those authorities who had tolerated Colonel Wheler for months, might consistently tolerate this presumption in the sepoy for a year.
The murder of the men was extorted from the sepoy as a kind of sacrifice.
But this in many ways was sure to operate ruinously for the sepoy interests, and could therefore have found a sufficient motive only with the native princes.
In response to his rap upon the panel, a voice which he recognized as that of the Sepoy cried: "Come in!
The eyes of the Sepoy were fixed upon him with a gleam in his glance not unlike that of the sapphire upon which the miser had been engaged during the whole of this singular narrative.
The Sepoy arose hastily and entered the bedchamber, seating himself according to the direction of the detective.
You will know shortly," replied the Sepoy after a few moments of reflection, with his eyes directed upon the handcuffs.
Having in his haste to escape neglected to latch the doors, the raging Sepoy had no difficulty in conducting his captors along the hallway to his room.
It was but the work of a second to repeat these operations on his right arm, and the Sepoy was free.
Sepoy as he met the inquiring glance of his furtive auditor, "what of the flaw in the sapphire?
Gradually, however, in the manner of disheartened stragglers whipped again into the firing line, there shadowed in his expression evidences of moral recovery which the Sepoy did not like.
Assured now, the Sepoy rushed to the bedroom, threw aside the coverlets and possessed himself of one of the sheets.
Raikes, disturbed by the abrupt cessation of the sedative tones of the Sepoy and the abrasion of the chair, "superb!
You see," continued the Sepoy as he was about to deposit the bag in the case, "I have left room for this.
And now," exclaimed the Sepoy with a frightful grin of malice, "I trust that your senses are sufficiently restored to receive a farewell suggestion or two.
Rose and Kate had awoke at the sound of the bugle, but had heeded it little, believing that it was only a Sepoy call.
After standing in a listening attitude for three or four minutes the Sepoy supposed that the noise must have been caused by some large bird suddenly disturbed in the foliage.
The Sepoy artillerymen stood to their guns and fought fiercely as the British rushed upon them.
It was a stubborn, furious, desperate strife, man to man--desperate Sepoy against furious Englishman.
As Lieutenant Salkeld tried to fire the fuse he fell, shot through the arm and leg; while Havildar Tilluh Sing, who stood by, was killed, and Ramloll Sepoy was wounded.
Many of the Sepoys leaped over the parapet, and were dashed to pieces, preferring that death to the bayonet; while on the terrace no single Sepoyat the end of that time remained alive.
Putting their caps on the ends of the muskets, they raised them to the level of the windows, and every Sepoy at the post discharged his musket at once.
The third time he did so the figure dropped off his blanket, and, with a sudden bound, threw himself on the sentry's back; at the same moment a Sepoy in uniform darted out from the tent.
We were told that afternoon that the 57th Native Infantry, who had marched to the rear of our barracks the evening before, had remained quietly in the country during the night without one sepoy showing any mutinous disposition.
The party I was with in the great caravanserai ranged the place like demons, the English soldiers putting to death every sepoy they could find.
Here were 700 men, mostly veterans, of one of Her Majesty's regiments, doomed to inaction through the blundering and stupid perverseness of an old sepoy Brigadier.
Amid great excitement, more especially among the young soldiers, we waited to see what would follow when the sepoy battalions marching from cantonments into the country appeared in sight.
In anxious expectation we waited for the result, when, after a short interval, shots were heard, and we knew that our men had engaged the sepoy guard.
Quickly the men fell in, though several dropped as a volley flashed out from the Sepoy line.
On the night of June 4, the Sepoy regiment at Cawnpore broke out in mutiny.
The Sepoyhorsemen charged through the Beluchee army and stormed the batteries on the ridge of the hill of Meanee.
Some eighty-five of a regiment of Sepoycavalry refused to take the cartridges and were marched off to the guard-house.
In May, sixty-one artillerymen and four Sepoy regiments were there.
This the sepoy refused, saying that he did not know what caste the man was of, and his pot might be defiled if he drank from it.
The common instincts and the common dangers of their profession create often singularly strong ties of regard and affection between the sepoy of all ranks and his British officers--especially on campaign.
They personate a woman, a white lady, a sepoy policeman, almost any character.
We were pursued by a whole troop of Sepoy cavalry, who were firing pistol-shots at us.
At the moment a Sepoy fell dead across me, hiding me partly from sight.
It is celebrated for its gallant defence by Captain Craigie and a sepoy garrison against the Afghans in the first Afghan War of 1842.
Our sepoyguide of to-day was not of the educated branch of the army.
He was a sepoy of the Maharajah's army, who had drowned his comrade in the stream below the place where he thus had expiated his crime.
Not being able to trust the sepoy in such a delicate undertaking, I was unable to get any information from the Lamas on religious subjects; and all signs and suggestive pointings, &c.
The head of the cooking department being still sick, proceeded on a pony, and, having a certain air of the Sepoy about him, very grand and imposing he looked.
On the road again at daybreak, with the intention of going to a place called Kukunath, where there were more springs, and which, from information obtained from the sepoy who accompanied us, was on our road to Islamabad.
The 'Sepoy General' had indisputably shown that his capacity wras not limited to oriental campaigns.
The sepoy infantry made a stand, but the rifles, in a hand to hand combat, were easy victors.
The Sikh ranks had been mainly recruited from our disbanded Sepoy soldiery and deserters.
His prophetic predictions concerning the evils that would certainly result from the state of discipline in which he found the Sepoy armies, were, unfortunately, all fulfilled.
The condition of material prosperity shown by India, in spite of the sanguinary sepoy revolt, was scarcely more encouraging than the reports of the way in which the finance of India passed through the terrible convulsion.
There were also many desertions ofSepoy soldiers to Shere Singh, but more especially of Sikh soldiery under Lord Gough's command.
Now and then a white-bearded old sepoy may still be found, who loves to talk of Porto Novo and Pollilore.
All those millions do not furnish one sepoy to the armies of the Company.
In India, however, their successors, the great Moguls, continued to maintain a semblance of sovereignty even down to our own times, when they were wiped from the blackboard for having taken part in the Sepoy mutiny.
He hastened away to India to aid in suppressing the Sepoy mutiny, eventually becoming viceroy after another campaign in China.
Moberly and I both took carbines from the men, as they were firing wildly; the sepoy whose carbine I took invariably managed to jam the cartridge, partly his fault, and partly the fault of the worn state of the extractor.
An old sepoy lying near me declared as each man dropped that it was his particular rifle whose aim had been so accurate, until Borradaile called him sharply to order, and told him to attend to business.
As we were moving off, a Kashmir sepoy turned up who had been one of Edwardes' party, and whose life had been saved by a friendly villager who gave him some Chitrali clothes.
Should any accident occur, you are to take the Sepoy for Bombay direct and go on to Delhi.
The regiment of sepoy cavalry at Meerut was strongly suspected of disaffection; accordingly it was resolved to put the men to the test.
The first serious menace against this growing power appeared in a native movement, the culmination of which is known as the Indian or Sepoy Mutiny.
One day a low-caste native, known as a lascar, asked a Brahmin sepoy for a drink of water from his brass pot.
That same evening he ordered out the regiment, and a battery of eight guns manned by Europeans, together with four sepoy regiments, three of infantry and one of cavalry.
One of the three sepoyregiments was on duty in the city; the other two remained in the cantonment on the Ridge.
The subsequent history of the sepoy revolt is little more than a detail of the military operations of British troops for the dispersion of the rebels and restoration of order and law.
Besides the wives and families of the regimental officers of the sepoy regiments, there was a large European mercantile community.
While the European officers continued to sleep every night in the sepoy lines, the veteran made his preparations for meeting the coming storm.
The capture of Delhi, in September, 1857, was the turning-point in the sepoy mutinies.
Meanwhile there were commotions in the sepoy lines and neighboring bazaars.
There were no European regiments at Delhi; nothing but three regiments of sepoy infantry and a battery of native artillery.
At last, on the night of June 4th, the sepoy regiments at Cawnpore broke out in mutiny.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepoy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
