Three is the normal number of the eggs, though on one occasion my shikaree found four in a nest.
Breakfast over, my good old Shikaree was sent for, and the whole affair gone over again.
Shikaree is game and stanch to the backbone, and will not be stopped by a night's wetting.
The old Shikaree makes his appearance in the nullah, and wishing me success through the window, asks if "all is right?
Why, I almost dreaded the morning, when my Shikaree and people would come and find the cow killed, and I should have in fairness to account for the rest.
In the mean while the shikareehad retreated some paces to the left.
Harry Lindsay acquired quite a reputation in Jooneer and the surrounding country, for the shikaree spoke freely of his bravery, intelligence, and skill with his arms.
In another five minutes I had begun to climb down the watercourse--the shikareefollowing me.
Shikaree of the village, more like a monkey than a man, whose charge it was to open a hole for F.
The shikaree had often followed the spoor of wild elephants through the jungles of Bengal, and knew everything about their way of travelling.
Karl was equally satisfied of this; and both by their shouts kept encouraging the shikareeto stand firm.
The shikaree was still inclined towards indulging in his superstitious belief that the creature they had seen was not of the earth, but some apparition of Brahma or Vishnu.
Fortunately for them, the shikaree had not condescended to draw the string of his bow.
When at length the last twelve inches of the elephant's trunk was all that remained above the surface, the shikaree could hold back no longer.
I fancy I know the bird that made those wild notes: and if it be one of them the shikaree has shot, we shall have a breakfast fit for a prince, and of a kind Lucullus delighted to indulge in.
At the same instant, Caspar and the shikaree ran backward--tightening the rope as they went; and like a vast vulture with outspread wings, the bird soared silently upward into the air.
No, that was not the reason; but simply that Karl more clearly comprehended the danger in which the shikaree was placed.
But they had not regarded his movements for many seconds, before perceiving the true state of the case, and the fearful peril in which their faithful shikaree was now placed.
In other words, was theshikaree about to be projected through a fall of thirty feet to the bottom of the cliff?
But perceiving the strong curving beak and the sharp talons extended towards him, Fritz was easily persuaded to remain at a prudent distance, and leave the shikaree to make a finish of the bearcoot with his long boar-spear.
At the same moment the shikaree was seen shooting out from among the branches under which he had been for the time buried; and, then running with all his might towards the tree upon which the brothers had found refuge.
In those days no native shikaree owned and operated a gun,--or at the most very, very few of them did.
He is indeed a wonderful young man," observed the shikaree wallah.
Their host at once expressed his readiness to furnish the sportsmen with steeds; and in a short time they set forth towards a part of the jungle in which the shikareeassured them that numberless tigers were to be found.
I was once a short distance from a village, accompanied by my shikaree wallah, when we heard the cry of `Help!
The shikaree wallah we spoke to last night seems a bold fellow, and will show us some sport.
In this way, a couple of years before, two coolies and a shikaree had been killed, while shooting with an officer.
The second rounding-up was less simple than the first, because the tiger had more choice of hiding places; but again our shikaree displayed his wonderful intuition, and in about an hour we had ringed the creature in.
It was now that the shikaree was feeling the elephant shortage.
Meanwhile the oldshikaree had raised the signal of success agreed upon.
Whilst Oliver and the oldshikaree were working hard in the moonlight, Mr. Desborough and his friends were in hot pursuit of the flying wolves.
Rattam and Oliver turned back to meet them; then they perceived the old shikaree running before them as their guide.
He was wondering whether it would be safe to leave her with the sleeping child whilst he went on with the shikaree to the Rana's castle.
Oliver squeezed Rattam's hand as he whispered his last question, "When will the shikaree get back?
When the shikaree touched Oliver on the shoulder, the milk-white ass, the gold-fringed umbrella, and the crowd of dusky attendants were advancing with Rattam across the intervening plateau.
Carl waked with the darkness, and began to howl--the same wild howl which had frightened the old shikareein the morning.
Mr. Desborough and the deputy were on one side; the major, Oliver, and the oldshikaree on the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shikaree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
