They found a few belated sowarsof the 3d Cavalry, who took refuge in a wood, and the artillery opened fire at the trees!
The artillery and 81st were on the right of the line, the native infantry in the center, and the sowars on the left.
Leaving their willing allies to carry sword and torch through the small community in that quarter the sowars rode to the Lahore Gate of the palace.
Inspired by their officer's example the two sowars dashed after him with splendid courage.
Near Akhab Khan an escort of sowars stood by their horses, and Malcolm felt that the instant the former lance-corporal set eyes on either Nejdi or himself recognition would follow as surely as a vulture knows its prey.
None of the bullets harmed horse or man, and the sowars were not quite near enough to be in the line of fire.
They were on the move, with the two sharp-eyed sowars leading, when the noise made by a number of horsemen, coming toward them on the landward side and in front, brought them to an abrupt halt.
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.
Glancing over his shoulder at this point, Malcolm caught sight of a dozen sowars riding furiously after them.
It was curious that I should have thought of such a thing just then, at a time when four sowars led up Sergeant Jones tied by a piece of rope to one of their saddle-bows, while the trooper's horse was behind.
Harry, who had throughout the voyage worn only civilian costume of white drill, now put on his full uniform; as did the sowars of his escort.
You are not to join your new regiment, but are to command twenty sowars of the 5th, which are to be attached to those of the general's staff, for escort duty.
The sowarsrushed in upon them, captured the three, and to their great surprise found that one was a small naked boy.
But an officer and a couple of sowars were left on the eminence itself, from which point of vantage they could keep a close watch on the Arab horsemen.
As a matter of precaution the chief was handed over to one of the sowars (Indian troopers) as soon as Geoff had repeated to his Commanding Officer what had been stated.
Very quickly Geoff gave him all the information he had been able to extract from the captured chief, and then, at a suggestion from the officer, the Arab was sent for, and presently appeared with an escort of sowars about him.
Shoot her, sahib," said one of the sowars with me, little troubled with the polite consideration for the sex which the obligations of an effete civilisation imposed upon his British officer.
Without a moment's hesitation he charged the rebels single-handed, cut down the first man he met, and had just flung his pistol at a second when two sowars dashed upon him.
Sherdil led the way, the sowars following in a scattered line.
Why had the sowars halted at the plantation instead of returning to Delhi by some roundabout route?
Did he not command two days ago that twelve rupees' worth of sweetmeats should be bestowed upon those seventy sowars who came in from Alipur, with a tale--lies, by my beard!
Captain Daly ordered Ahmed to take a dozensowars in pursuit, strictly enjoining him to keep the men well in hand, and not to ride far, since night was almost upon them.
To move away might be immediately fatal; the only alternative was to remain hidden on the chance of the sowars by and by moving off.
The sowars came on until they were within a hundred yards of the nullah, and Ahmed shrank back among the leaves, fearing lest he might be seen and so draw the men on.
And as a man I could assuredly not blame any action that our sowars might take.
Half stunned, he lay still, and the rebelsowars left him for dead.
Wondering, thesowars of the patrol watched as he approached, shading their eyes against the sunbeams.
The lethargic sowars were galvanized into activity.
The horsemen at the plantation were probably a roving band of mutinous sowars from Delhi, who had been raiding, and now found the Guides between them and the city.
The Sowars dashed at a gallop up the road, and came boldly enough up to our camp.
They looked at me, and hesitated whether to come at me or not, apparently, while I beckoned to the remaining sowars to come up.
Afar off we heard the firing in the city in other quarters; leaving our men outside, with four Sowars behind us with cocked carabines, we rode in, holding our revolvers ready for a row.
We had a narrow escape yesterday from a party of the enemy crossing the road en route from the southward to Futtehgurh; they attacked my sowars after we (Mac and I) had ridden on, and killed one of them, and wounded several.
One fine bold "Nihung" beat off foursowars one after another, and kept them all at bay.
One of the sowars pointed out to me a man running rapidly across a piece of cultivated ground, with arms gleaming in the sunlight.
Meanwhile Hodson galloped back, and told the sowars (10) to hurry the princes on along the road, while we showed a front and kept back the mob.
Do you think these Levy Sowarsare reliable, Mr Haslam?
The Levy Sowars were drawn from the same region and were of the same faith as his captors, of whom they would know the strength and resource, and with whom they would certainly avoid engaging in a fight on behalf of such as he.
But it might have been seen that the section of the camp occupied by the Levy Sowars was the scene of some little excitement.
The Levy Sowars who had surrendered, to the number of about a dozen, were grouped on the outskirts of the freebooters.
Likely they'll send back a brace of Levy sowars to have a look round.
A movement made to pursue her was simultaneously checked, and then the Political Agent and some of the sowars entered the tent, but cautiously.
Then I shall send one of the sowars with a message to the rajah," I said firmly.
There were men watching everywhere at night, and all day there were evil-minded budmashes of sowars for miles round.
Well, then they would have cut us all down with their tulwars; but they could not keep together--no sowars could bear such a tempest as that.
You English officers and gentlemen have known nothing; but the sepoys and sowars have been prepared.
Few things are more harrowing and depressing to the unappreciative Ferenghi ear than Persian sowars singing, and three most unmelodious specimens of their kind at it all at once are something horrible.
He dropped in once or twice yesterday, and being possessed of more brains than the three sowars put together, he gathered from appearances, and his general estimation of their character, that all is not right.
The sowars are in high glee at having escaped what seems to me the imaginary terrors of the passage across the Dasht-i-na-oomid, and as we ride along toward Ghalakua their exuberant animal spirits find expression in song.
It strikes me as a trifle suspicious, however, upon discovering that while everybody else comes to see the tomasha, all three of the sowars remain behind.
Sending for me and summoning the sowars to his presence, without preliminary palaver he accuses them of robbing me of "pool.
The sun goes down and dusk settles over our trail, and still the chief of the sowars and Kiftan Sahib lead the way.
Fancying that I am overcome and in a fair way of being drowned, the sowars set up a wild howl of apprehension, and shout excitedly to the nomads to rescue me from a watery grave.
Both the sowars bravely try their best to relieve me, but they cut ridiculous figures, toppling over every little while.
Sighting an Eimuck camel-rider in the distance, one of the sowars gives chase and halts him until we can come up.
Luxuriant beds of the green stuff known in the United States as lamb's-quarter, abound, and I put one of the sowars to gathering some with the idea of cooking it for supper.
Neither trees nor houses are anywhere in sight; but the chief of the sowars and another man ride away over the hills, and late at night return with two men carrying bread and mast and fresh goat-milk enough to feed the whole hungry party.
A surface of mingled sand and gravel characterizes the way; sometimes it is unridably heavy, and sometimes the wheeling is excellent for a mile or two at a stretch, enabling me to leave the ambling yahoos of the sowars far behind.
Mohammed Ahzim Khan, observing my wretched condition, insists upon me letting one of the sowars try his hand at trundling the wheel, while I rest myself by riding his horse.
Again, however, nobody was hurt, and the sowars reached the hollow, laughing and talking in high glee.
At every difficult turn of the track sowars were posted to secure the retreat, if it should be necessary to come back in a hurry.
A few sowars have frequently been sufficient to drive a hundred of these valiant savages in disorder to the hills, or prevent them descending into the plain for hours.
In half an hour, the ill-omened spot was occupied only by the few sowars engaged in shooting the wounded mules, and by the vultures who watched the proceedings with an expectant interest.
The order was given; three or four sowars drew their carbines, dismounted and entered the great and heavy gate, which had been suspiciously opened a little way.
Twenty sowars with their carbines were engaged in firing at the enemy, who had occupied a morcha--a small stone fort--some 300 yards away.
At this moment two sowars got clear of the swampy rice fields, and at once galloped, shouting, to the rescue, cutting and slashing at the tribesmen.
There were no pandies in sight, and Ted's dismounted sowars left their officer and ran off to share in the plunder.
Throw your own lives away if you like, but remember that our sowars are of value to the state.
The women were replaced in the carriages, and the procession moved forward at a walk, three or four sowars scouting in advance.
While you were throwing that ruffian, who would have overmatched me in an instant, Shere Ali and I disposed of the sowars who ran up at the captain's signal.
The verandah, however, was crowded with servants andsowars in gorgeous but rather tawdry liveries, not all of them as clean as they should have been.
But if you are not quick about signing that paper I may change my mind, and send for the Angrezi sowars from Peterhof.
The sowars were mounted, and rode in with their lances; the Afghans were unmounted, but their magazines were full, and they fired a volley at the Lancers as they charged.
There are, of course, Mussalman sepoys and sowars recruited from other provinces than the Punjab.
By the way, I've told off three sowarsto see you to the frontier: there I dare say your uncle will meet you.
And the biggest cowards in creation--and the Afghans are not cowards--would recover their courage and their wits long before you could fly to and fro with the sowars as passengers.
At a word from the Major half the sowars leapt from their horses, slewed the guns round, and sent shell after shell among the frenzied crowd until the whole track within sight was clear of living men.
Presently the three Englishmen halted, and the eldest of them, turning in his saddle, addressed a few words in Urdu to the dafadar of the sowars behind.
He had just finished when there was the clatter of hoofs outside, and in a few minutes entered Captain Fenton, who had ridden up with half a dozen sowarsfrom the fort fifteen miles to the south.
The aeroplane could only be repaired at the mine, and it was quite impossible for the three sowars and Fazl to transport it over twenty-five miles of a narrow and difficult track.
Behind them, at some little distance, rode eight or ten bearded men of swarthy hue, whose turbans, tunics, and long boots proclaimed them as sowars of a regiment of Border cavalry.
Behind them at a gallop came fifty sowars of the Border force, led by Major Endicott himself.
Ordering the sowars to continue their march slowly, the Major rode back with the Appletons and his native orderly until he reached the first mules of the caravan.
The Appletons watched the Major and his party until the sowars who brought up the rear were out of sight: then they turned their faces once more to the north, feeling somewhat depressed.
Having dispatched three of the sowars to fetch the provisions, he said-- "I sent the dafadar on the chance of his finding you.
The Major had halted; the sowars sat their horses motionless a few yards behind; the mule-train was still straggling on far in the rear.
One day Dafadar Narrain Khan was squatting with a few of his sowars on the wall of the enclosure, looking out over the country before him.
The meal was almost ready when the end of the caravan arrived, and the two rearmost sowars rejoined their comrades, with no other sound than a guttural grunt of satisfaction.
It was Ganda Singh, the dafadar of the sowars who had accompanied Major Endicott on his mission months before.
Further pursuit was out of the question; and, by way of consolation, the foremost sowarswere ordered to dismount and open rapid fire in the direction of the fugitives.
The instant they were ready he bounded over the broken ground, his trumpeter dogging him like a shadow, and a self-imposed bodyguard of six sowars following close upon his heel.
The arrival of supports, however, made it clear to the enemy that they themselves were now heavily outnumbered; and after a desultory resistance they broke up and fled, the sowars zealously speeding their departure.
I gave up every shred of hope as I watched, and one or two of the sowars near me broke down and cried like children.
The defeat of his quail had vexed him, and he desired the Sahib to understand that the sowars of His Highness's army could ride.
My friend, therefore, requested the sowarsto follow them, and report all they might observe of their actions.
The sowars who had been deputed to follow the tribe now rode up, and reported that in the vicinity of the old temple there was an army of apes--an army of forty thousand!
Hitherto we had been escorted only by four sowars (horsemen), but now our escort amounted to about fifty, each horseman carrying an immense spear, and dressed much in the same way as the Irregular Cavalry in the pay of the East India Company.
I was nothing loth, and a swift mare having been harnessed and put to the buggy, off we started, two sowars (native horsemen or mounted police) cantering behind us.
Others broke away and streamed down from the high ground into the open plain, sowars in pursuit; rounding them up, shepherding them back to their by-lanes and rabbit-warrens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sowars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
