I soon recognised the rosy face and twinkling eyes of my friend of Bhomsong, the only man of intelligence about the Rajah's court, and the one whose services as Vakeel were particularly wanted at Dorjiling.
To-day, however, they pushed an interview, but I still held out, and said they must tell my Vakeel what they had to say.
After a deal of palaver my Vakeel came in to say, “that the whole of the town requested I would take back Ibrahim Ruckdi.
The idea is gaining ground that the Mahdi is dead, and that his Vakeel is acting his part.
At this conference the Vakeelasserted that he had received no reply from the Durbar at Lahore.
Hence with that lump of bloody clay, and let the Hakim Hartley and the English Vakeel come before me.
Richarn and Sali both shouted to them to "hurry"; and the vakeel arriving at this moment and seeing how matters stood, himself assisted, and urged the men to obey.
My vakeel was not to be found; my men were lying idly in the positions where they had slept, and not a man obeyed when I gave the order to prepare to start-except Richarn and Sali.
Taking advantage of their indecision, I immediately rose and ordered my vakeel and Richarn to disarm them as they were thus scattered.
After some days the absconded guide, Rabonga, appeared with a number of men, but without either my vakeel or Yaseen.
I ordered the vakeel to hunt up the men and to bring me their guns, threatening that if they refused I would shoot any man that I found with one of my guns in his hands.
Upon our arrival at a large town called Kattaga, my vakeel reported the desertion of five of my men to Mahommed Her's party, with their guns and ammunition.
The time was passed by the men in vociferously quarrelling among themselves during the day and in close conference with the vakeel during the night, the substance of which was reported on the following morning by the faithful Saat.
I therefore applied to Mahommed, the vakeel of Andrea Debono, who had escorted Speke and Grant, and I begged his co-operation in the expedition.
Hardly were we seated in our hut when my vakeel announced that Kamrasi had arrived to pay me a visit.
The Dongolowas had not appeared when summoned by the drum, and my vakeel being of their nation, I impressed upon him his responsibility for the mutiny, and that he would end his days in prison at Khartoum should my expedition fail.
That the womans vakeelhaving beforehand agreed upon the terms of the marriage, proceeded to ask the following question of the mans vakeel, in the Arabic tongue.
The vakeel has been instructed to apprise his master of every single occurrence that takes place at Lahore, and to keep him well informed of all movements on our part.
Before the Vakeel quitted Simla he had to listen to a truculent address from Lord Lytton, in the course of which Shere Ali's position was genially likened to that of 'an earthen pipkin between two iron pots.
The Ameer arranged that the Vakeel of the Indian Government should visit Simla, carrying with him full explanations, and charged to lay before the Viceroy sundry grievances which were distressing Shere Ali.
The other was the head vakeel (attorney) of the Ranee.
The Rajah of Jhansi had a small house about a mile and a half from the cantonment, which was used as a halting-place, and thither I was taken by the minister and the vakeel who accompanied me.
I accordingly gave him permission to remain, but I ordered him to follow me quickly, as it would be necessary to present him to Kabba Rega in his new position as vakeel of the government.
Butchers' meat was exceedingly scarce, as we had only a few cows that had been given during the voyage by the vakeel of the Bohr station.
It appeared that the woman had the small-pox, and she had been therefore thrown into the high grass, and abandoned by the vakeel of the three vessels that we had observed in the distance.
He had in early life been a serjeant or choush in the Egyptian army; but having an adventurous disposition, he had taken to the White Nile, as the vakeel of Andrea Debono, a Maltese ivory merchant.
I wrote officially to Suleiman, the vakeel of Agad & Co.
The vakeel of the station supplied five cows and six goats.
Suleiman was to continue as vakeel of the Fabbo station, under the command of Wat-el-Mek.
In a short time the boat returned with my old acquaintance Wat Hojoly, the vakeel of the Bohr station belonging to Abou Saood.
We then anchored for the night in a lake, while I sent a boat forward into the canal occupied by the three vessels to order the vakeel of the company to visit me immediately.
The vakeel of Latooka had received and harboured two of my Egyptian soldiers, who had deserted from Gondokoro and joined the slave-hunters under the guidance of a Bari.
At the death of the former vakeel of Fatiko, Ali Hussein had succeeded to the command of the station.
The absence of the vakeel and his people was a studied insult, as it was his duty to have at once appeared, with his men in line to receive us.
He directs his vakeel to ascertain whether the English intend to deprive him of his country; for if they do, he is ready to surrender it, upon receiving an order from the Resident.
Vakeel from the Bhurtpore Rajah and a visit from Luckund Chund, the richest banker in India.
Bid the vakeel at Rajpore go to her and suggest a marrow to the pot.
Something, it was said, she had asked the vakeelat Rajpore to get for her.
And yet the vakeel of the Diwans had simply brought a message, that if the mem sahiba would like another Ayodhya pot, similar in all respects to the last, one could doubtless be found and forwarded without delay.
A fat ox was immediately slaughtered by the vakeelcommanding the Turks' party, and a great feast was soon in preparation, as our people were determined to fraternize.
Mr. Petherick's vakeel had just been shot dead by one of his own men, and such events were too common to create much attention.
The vakeel of Chenooda, one Mahommed Her, was in constant communication with my men, which tended to confirm the reports I had heard from the boy Saat.
Binder's vakeelinsisted upon giving a bullock to my people.
My vakeel was not to be found; my men were lying idly in the positions where they had slept; and not a man obeyed when I gave the order to prepare to start except Richarn and Sali.
I now tried conciliatory measures, and I sent my vakeel to their headman Ibrahim to talk with him confidentially, and to try to obtain an interpreter in return for a large present.
My vakeel held a broken ramrod in his hand: this suspicious witness was covered with blood.
I abused both the vakeel and the men most thoroughly; and "as for the mutineers who have joined the slave-hunters, Inshallah, the vultures shall pick their bones!
About a quarter before the awful hour, the vakeel was seen emerging from the political agent's tent, and mounting his rut; but his contracted brow betrayed the agitation of his mind.
This day the vakeel had brought to camp the most positive assurance that his master, the rajah, would be in camp to sign and ratify a treaty on the proffered terms.
The instant the vakeel heard the guns, he leapt out of his carriage, and ran as fast as he could towards the fort, screaming in notes something like the angry tiger.
The moment our batteries opened, their guns also opened a heavy cannonade, evidencing the truth of what the vakeel had been holding forth.
At the same time, the Vakeel was instructed to propose a meeting at Peshawur between Sir Lewis Pelly, as the representative of the Indian Government, and Noor Mohammed Shah, the Minister of the Ameer.
Great was the consternation at the Court of the Ameer when our Vakeel unfolded the message with which he was charged.
One Khaleel Effendi, a new vakeel here, was there, and said, 'What dost thou ask here thou harlot?
There is a pretty little man called Michail, a Copt, vakeel to M.
The whole land belongs to the Sultan of Turkey, the Pasha being his vakeel (representative), nominally of course as we know.
Your Lordships will next observe, that he tells the vakeel his reason for turning him out was, that he had been patronized by other gentlemen.
Mr. Hastings tells you, that Cheyt Sing had a vakeel at Calcutta, whose business it was to learn the general transactions of our government, and the most minute particulars which could in any manner affect the interest of his employer.
Did he ever state it to the Rajah, or did he call his vakeel before the Council to answer the charge?
When he was ordered to send a vakeel to defend his conduct, he refused to send him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vakeel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
