Three lemons are put up on sticks about twenty yards apart; and as the sowar gallops past, tulwar in hand, he has successively to cut them in two without touching the sticks--a by no means easy feat.
The sowar at "tent-pegging" has missed his peg and pulls at his horse at full gallop.
During the painting of "Quatre Bras" I was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, and I contributed to the Winter Exhibition that large sketch of a sowar of the 10th Bengal Lancers which I called "Missed!
Outside the window, which was closed, a sowar paced slowly up and down to keep away any curious listeners.
As soon as the sowar had ridden away north, ventre a terre, the two grandees mounted and proceeded slowly through the ranks of the halted cavalcade.
Ere night fell, Jai Singh and a sowar made an extensive reconnaissance on horseback beyond the perimeter of the village.
Behind him, the Rajput sowar sat his horse like a carved statue.
And now the sowar was speeding to the agreed rendezvous to apprise Roger and Jai Singh that all had gone well thus far.
That evening the Levy sowar arrived in due course, with Colonel Jermyn's post, and clattered off, bearing that of Upward.
The Sowar seeing that there was only a field of grass, counted them and found there were twenty; so he said, 'What will you give me if I find the twentieth?
During the discussion a faithful sowar approached, holding a small strip of paper in his hand, which he had brought carefully concealed about his person.
Just at that moment a sowar was seen rapidly coming up from the direction of the city; whom, as he approached, Reginald recognised as his faithful ally, Buxsoo.
In the morning a sowar galloped in with a note from him.
The sowar cut him down instantly, and we returned, well satisfied that we had rid the world of such a monster.
I and the sowar rode after him, when I discovered it was the King's favorite eunuch, of whose atrocities we had heard so much.
We leave one sowar behind, in pain he says, but I doubt if he's very ill.
I wrote that note to you in a hurry, for I was on the point of going on a round of inspection of the camp, when your sowar arrived.
A sowar brought us orders, from the general, to remain here; and to send at once, if we heard any news of you.
I shall, of course, put you in orders tomorrow as having performed a singularly gallant action, in rescuing Lieutenant Brooke of the 47th and a sowar from their captivity, by the Burmese, in a prison at Toungoo.
Taking a cursory glance at the contents, he gives a sweep of his chin toward the bicycle, and says, "Sowar shuk; tomasha.
A gravelly trail, with the gradient slightly in my favor, enables me to create a better impression of a bicycler's capabilities on the mind of the mirza and the sowar than was possible yesterday, by quickly leaving them far in the rear.
While winking at the amusing little act of petty larceny already detected, I do not propose to give his kleptomaniac tendencies full swing, and so I meet his proposal to sowar and go ahead by peremptorily ordering him to take the lead.
When the condition of the road admits of my pushing ahead a little, this sowar canters along immediately behind, while the remainder of the party follow more leisurely.
The purpose of the officer's return, with his friends, is readily understood by the crowd, and his arrival is announced by a universal roar of "Sowar shuk!
Having meted our this summary interpretation of Afghan petty justice, Kiftan Sahib resumes his blanket, and the old sowar comes and squats alongside my own rude couch, and endeavors to heal his wounded spirit by muttering appeals to Allah.
I tell him that I am going to Kandahar and Quetta, and suggest that he send a sowar with me to guide the way.
Aminulah Khan gives him a letter, and after mutual salaams, and "good ahfis," the old sowar leads the way at a pace which shows him to be filled with exaggerated ideas about my speediness.
After some hesitation she declined, saying the sowar had married her (after the Mahomedan fashion), and was kind to her, and she had no friends and relations to go to.
Stillman and Hills were breakfasting together, when a sowar from the Native officers' party rode up and reported that a body of the enemy's Cavalry were in sight.
Among the latter was Hope Grant, who had his horse shot under him in a charge, and was saved by the devotion of two men of his own regiment (the 9th Lancers) and a Mahomedan sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry.
Encouraged by this success, the sowar redoubled his efforts; and slung such awful and shameful language with such force and precision that the rout of the enemy speedily became complete.
A minute ago you were ready to fall before the first sowar who lifted his saber over your head.
Akhab Khan was the young sowar whose life he had spared at Cawnpore when Winifred and her uncle and himself were escaping from Bithoor.
After re-reading the pass, to make sure of its significance, the rebel leader curtly told Abdul Huq and another sowar to bring the Feringhi into the presence of the Maharajah, by which title he evidently indicated Nana Sahib.
Hardly were our men mounted again, and we were moving off, before my heart leaped to my throat, for from the other side of the tope I saw the second sowar regiment dash into sight and race down to attack our foot regiment.
My heart gave a bound as the sowar announced the approach of the enemy, and I glanced at Ny Deen, in whose face I saw astonishment and disbelief for the moment.
After a few moments, and from a desire to say something less weak than my last poor feeble utterance, I said-- "Was it not you who saved my life when that sowar was going to cut me down?
All this was almost momentary, and the next instant, as I kept a keen eye on the enemy, I was listening to the sowar officer speaking.
The next minute a sowar turned and made a cut at me; but his blow fell upon steel, which flashed.
The Englishman threw his reins to the nearest sowar and stealthily joined the ressaidar, who was peering through the bushes.
The sowar on the right of Govind Singh reeled in his saddle and then his horse shot to the front, relieved of its burden, and Ted noticed that a second of his men winced, let his carbine fall, and clapped a hand to his side.
In the nick of time Ted sliced at one who, having reloaded, was in the act of firing, and his horse bowled over a second, while the lance of a Dogra sowar disabled a third.
A sowar displayed his weapon proudly to some Sikhs, who grinned in appreciation.
A sowar was wounded and a couple of horses killed.
A Sowar now said there was a path round the rock by the bank of the river.
Several horses and mules were hit, and a sowar in the Guides Cavalry was wounded.
A sowar threw up his hands and fell, shot through the back.
A gasp from the woman and an oath from the sowar startled Amber out of somber apprehensions into which he had been plunged by contemplation of this impregnable fortress of desolation.
The sowar surrendered to Amber the reins of the other stallion, and stepped hastily aside.
A peremptory call like this boded no good, but by way of getting a further puff to show which way the wind blew, Shah Sowarassumed a haughty air.
And with that Shah Sowar hurried back to tell the bad news to his master.
Shah Sowar at once grasped what a narrow escape they had had, for an Englishman found in that region in disguise was a dead man.
When the time for the return visit came, Shah Sowar went alone to make the readily accepted excuse that his master was not in a fit state that day to fulfil social obligations.
Here Shah Sowar at once took a high hand, insisting that his master, from his princely connections, held the higher rank and must be visited first.
As Shah Sowar had foretold, the first serious pitfall was the question of language.
Shah Sowar was the trooper selected, and when he arrived at the place of tryst he was ushered into the presence of Smith.
The exceedingly restricted area of the tent prevented a large assembly, but the chief, his brother, and Shah Sowar managed to squeeze in and squat down.
It was after one such visit that the chief, as he came out, called Shah Sowar to him and said: "Who did you say that your master is?
So Shah Sowar went back to his Sahib and explained the plan of escape.
As your Honour wishes," was the resigned reply; but Shah Sowar saw big rollers ahead.
For the other Levy Sowar had been gradually edging away.
Hills parried the thrust with a quick movement, and wounded the sowar in the head.
Of a truth he is a sahib, or at the very least a sowar from one of the English regiments.
I saw him run one sowar through and shoot another.
Nothing would have convinced any one that the sowar was still alive, and Surgeons-Major Hunter, Gibson, and Briggs, Apothecary S.
About a mile or so out of the city, a mounted sowar in scarlet and gold uniform, and armed with two huge horse-pistols and a long cavalry sabre, galloped up to the caravan.
Never was I more surprised than upon entering the lofty iron gates guarded by a sowar in neat white uniform.
There will be a camel sowar to meet it half way to Udaipur; and I hope Udaipur will be pleased with it.
Many horses had been bought at the spring fairs in the Punjab; they cost about two hundred rupees each--perhaps more, the sowar could not say.
The sowar pointed northward and said, "from Amritsar," but he pronounced it "Armtzar.
The moon was burnt out and the air was bitterly cold, when the Englishman headed due east in his tonga, and the patient sowar behind nodded and yawned in the saddle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sowar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
