To add to my troubles my sola topeebecame objectionable.
At last, with a mighty effort I crouched in the saddle, gingerly released one hand, pushed aside the topee from before my mouth, and yelled to my brother to stop.
So in the bitter cold wind, feet numbed and teeth chattering, I scraped a hole for my arm and a sand pillow for my head, and shoving my topee over my ears to drown the nervy rip-rip of the Arab snipers, I slept.
Bala, who was deservedly a favourite with that gang of disciplined assassins, came in for a second bout of eleven guns: while Jwala Pershad and Tantia Topee got the same number a-piece.
And Azimoolah and the brothers of the Peishwa, accompanied by a host of nobles, mounted their horses, and joined Tantia Topee on the platform of the temple.
At the prescribed time, Tantia Topee found his power assembled on the bank, and straightway proceeded to make his dispositions.
In the course of the Friday evening Tantia Topee was closeted with the Nana, and, on leaving, gave orders that five guns and as many hundred picked musketeers should be mustered at the landing-place two hours before daybreak.
I looked at my topee to make sure, and the hard luck of being knocked over just when there was so much to be done made me so miserable that I could not help groaning.
By this time there was a whole crowd of people round me, though I seemed hardly to notice them; someone put my topee over my eyes, to shield them from the slanting sun.
I could not see her, on account of the topeeover my face, I knew it was Miss Borsen's hand.
Ten minutes later the housekeeper might have been seen, in a huge mushroom topee and with a large white umbrella, crossing the compound in the direction of the camping-ground chosen by Alderbury's driver and servant.
After lunch Wenaston put on his sun-topee and strolled into the cricket-field.
Maintaining his grip on the fortress, he resolved to take the offensive against Tantia Topee on the following morning.
It was obvious from the first that Tantia Topee had been successfully tampering with the Maharajah's troops, who went over in a body to the rebels and Scindiah had to seek safety in flight to Agra.
By the 31st a breach had been effected, but it was barely practicable; and on the same evening tidings came to Rose that Tantia Topee with twenty-two thousand men and twenty-eight guns was on the march from the north to the relief of Jhansi.
You see, I took the precaution of wearing a topee when we were ordered into the boat.
Tantia Topee and the Ranee fled to Calpee, where they were besieged on the 16th by Sir Hugh; Calpee fell on the 23rd, the Ranee and Tantia having previously retired towards Gwalior.
Tantia Topee marched to the relief of Jhansi with twenty or twenty-five thousand men, and an obstinately contested battle was fought on the 1st of April.
On the approach of Sir Hugh Rose, Tantia Topee fled, leaving the Ranee to defend the city.
Followed by about three hundred rebels, she joined Tantia Topee at Koonch.
And some instinct, as he was young and foolish, made the Englishman drag off both goggles and solar topee for a moment, and so Merla looked up and saw him with the sun bright on his light Saxon hair and friendly blue eyes.
But still she held her eyes down, for she felt embarrassed and oppressed, and, besides, the topee and the goggles had been replaced, and they spoilt the vision she had seen first of the English face.
She did not buy a solar topee at Port Said, for though this was her first voyage she had not, it seemed, started quite unwarned.
Then she went swiftly for her topee and gloves and parasol, and fled from the bungalow.
This arrangement looked like a fair sized table decoration, a conspicuous man in a topee with a gun at one end, and a black white-turbaned native at the other.
A topee would be in the way, and besides, the sun does not penetrate very much, and, indeed, is often not to be seen.
He was dressed in white ducks from head to foot, while a big solar topee covered his head.
Let me introduce our friend," he said, with a quaint little bow, removing his topee as he did so.
You will carry a topee in your kit for open spaces.
Meinheer Van Somering repeated the process, and having backed to the edge of the stairs, swept his topee from his head and treated Dick to an elaborate bow.
It was on all fours, like a hound on a scent, that I was compelled to travel; my solar topee getting the worse for wear every minute; my skin getting more and more wounded; my clothes at each step becoming more and more tattered.
He was not called Tantia Topee at Bhithoor, but "Bennie," simply.
Lifting his sun-topee he was about to beat a dignified retreat.
He dropped his sun-topee into the water, watching the ripples that appeared on the smooth surface as it sank, for he had attached a stone to it.
He sat in a corner wedged in between closely packed natives, his sun topee drawn over his eyes, the lower part of his face covered by his pocket-handkerchief.
With a glad smile Mr. Morpeth raised his sun-topee and hurried down the shady walk which made a short cut to the entrance gate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.