It was a hot night, and the punkah-wallah outside kept the punkah, or mechanical fan, switching back and forth over our heads with a rapidity that made us fear its ropes would break, as very often happened.
Standing outside of each window, a tall, graceful punkah-wallah tugs at a rattan withe, his naked limbs shining like polished ebony in the fierce glare of the Malayan sun.
The presbyterian mission station of Wallah Wallah valley, in Oregon, assaulted by Indians and several of the missionaries slain.
Wallah thaib--it is well said," replied Mustapha, as the two disputants were removed from the presence.
The shikaree wallah we spoke to last night seems a bold fellow, and will show us some sport.
At length he reached the Thousand Lights Bazaar, and calling on the jatka-wallah to stop, he alighted and paid his fare.
I'll tiff here more comfortably than with those worthy Melfords," he said to himself, and called to the gharry-wallah to halt.
Here no drowsy punkah-wallah had to be roused by the sleepless victim to pull the weary wind-fan!
At last the gharry-wallah pulled up at the precincts of the little sandstone temple embowered by trees.
The gharry-wallah waved his whip and began to thread his way along the crowded thoroughfare.
I spied thirty scalps on his belt, his leggings and mocassins were sewn with the hair of the Wallah Wallahs.
We will give him plenty of squaws and dogs; we will bring him slaves from the Umbiquas, the Cayuses, and the Wallah Wallahs.
On the banks of the Wallah-Wallah lived the hospitable tribe of the same name who had succored Mr. Crooks and John Day in the time of their extremity.
As the party were proceeding up the Columbia, near the mouth of the Wallah-Wallah River, several Indian canoes put off from the shore to overtake them, and a voice called upon them in French and requested them to stop.
At length she reached a range of the Rocky Mountains, near the upper part of the Wallah-Wallah River.
Fort Wallah-Wallah is surrounded by the tribe of the same name, as well as by the Skynses and the Nez Perces; who bring to it the furs and peltries collected in their hunting expeditions.
My first idea on beholding the samp-wallah allow himself to be stung by the scorpion was that the latter had by some means been rendered harmless.
For the former I have never seen it tried: and to prove its efficacy with the latter, the samp-wallah generally carries about in small earthen vessels a number of these animals, one of which he allows to wound him with his sting.
The jadoo wallah filled a small tub with water from a big jar, then placed a miniature imitation duck in the tiny pond thus formed.
The jadoo wallah had worked himself into a frenzy when the men who owned the basket stopped him and babbled in a native dialect.
The three young men of the Wallahwallah nation Continue with us in the Course of this day.
The Wallahwallah River discharges it's Self into the Columbia on it's South Side 15 miles below the enterance of Lewis's River, or the S.
Guide and the three young Wallah wallah's left us this morning reather abruptly and we have Seen nothing of them Sence.
Wallah wallah river about a mile from the Columbia untill the morning, accordingly encampd on the river near a fish Wear.
We took leave of those honest friendly people the Wallah wallahs and departed at 11 A.
I spied thirty scalps on his belt, his leggings and mocassins were sewn with the hair of the Wallah Wallahs[1].
Among them were natives of the Chimnapum, Yackaman, Sokulk, and Wallah Wallah tribes.
He describes the immense numbers of rattlesnakes around the mouth of the Wallah Wallah, and--a more pleasing theme the appearance of the mountains which he says the Canadians called from their color, "Les Montagnes Bleues.
He too commends the "Wallah Wallah" Indians for their honesty and humanity.
From Soda Springs to Fort Wallah Wallah and Oregon City, Oregon, via Fort Hall.
Leaving Touchet River, the trail passes over again to the plains, when there is neither wood, water, or grass to Fort Wallah Wallah.
From Soda Springs to Fort Wallah Wallah and Oregon City, Oregon, via Fort Hall 285 XII.
Perhaps the jungle wallah Sahib would hear it in the absence of the Government's representative, and transmit it.
Soon Haslam's envoy returned to say that a Sirdar of the Gularzai was anxious to salaam to Raynier Sahib, but, as the latter was absent, perhaps the jungle wallah Sahib would confer with him instead.
Wallah Thaib--it is well said," replied Mustapha, as the two disputants were removed from the presence.
It's hardly been a pleasant experience; that incompetent tonga-wallah behaved precisely as though he had deliberately made up his mind to delay me.
Simply because that other tonga-wallah was a fool, am I to be imposed upon in this fashion?
Amber considered that he had given Ram Nath no commission of any sort, and bent an attentive ear to the communication which the tonga-wallah insisted upon making to him.
If that were so, he vowed, the tonga-wallah would pay dearly for the indiscretion.
He'd contrived to get a billet as tonga-wallah to the Kuttarpur bunia who has the dâk-service contract.
He bribed his brother tonga-wallah to bring it about.
Where is that tonga-wallah who deserted me here last night?
It was a very large raft, manifestly launched by some country wallah in the last throes: a complicate huge grating, or floating platform, of immensely thick bamboos and spare spars, secured by turns of Manilla or coir rope.
A cooling douche with water kept at a low temperature in the celebrated porous bottles, a change of underclothing, and a punkah-wallah vigorously engaged in creating an artificial breeze, soon change things for the better.
Very good meals are dished up by the chowkee-dar at this bungalow, who seems an intelligent and enterprising fellow; but the lean and slippered punkah-wallah is a far less satisfactory part of the accommodation.
The samp-wallah and his assistant, pretending to search every hole and crevice of the compound, seemed busy and anxious in their employment, which occupied them for a long time without success.
The cavalcade had halted some threescore yards away, and one of the men now came forward to ask if the "jungle-wallah sahib" was there, because the Sirdar Yar Hussain Khan would be glad to have a talk with him on an official matter.
I sincerely trust that this will be the case as I shall have done at least one Jadoo-wallah a good turn.
There is a loud click, and snatching away the handkerchief the Jadoo-wallah shows the box filled with a variegated cloth ball.
The collection is made, the basket is hitched up on the shoulder pole and with his bag of tricks the Jadoo-wallah moves on to the next bungalow.
The Jadoo-wallah presses forward the little boy's head and this leaves only his shoulders and back visible.
When the Jadoo-wallah gets round the corner, the little assistant gets out while his impersonator goes a round about way into the next compound ready to re-appear at the end of the next performance of the trick.
While he came from his quarters, the Jadoo-wallah proceeded to divest himself of all his clothing, with the exception of his dhotie or loin cloth.
The Jadoo-wallah realises that he has killed his assistant, and, if a good showman, bewails his lot suitably.
Our Indian Jadoo-wallah usually gets himself into a very tight fitting third or fourth hand evening dress on these occasions, to show, I presume, how European he is.
The Indian juggler or Jadoo-wallah arrives with a basket large enough to contain a man, as we will see later, a huge dilapidated bag, a voluminous dhotie or loin cloth, and possibly a snake basket or two.
In this case the comparison with the Indian Jadoo-wallah is not a fair one, as the latter has not the means to purchase the complicated mechanism necessary for up-to-date illusions as shewn by European magicians.
The Jadoo-wallah then took some earth and made our orderly hold it in his two hands held together in front of his body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
