Riding down to the nullah, they found the palki-wallahs lying fast asleep in the shade of the bushes where Ahmed had left them, and the missy sahib asleep in the palki, grasping the knife.
A sudden rush of four men upon one would have been dangerous; but these palki-wallahs were not enterprising, and Ahmed's bold and contemptuous attitude did not encourage them to run any risks.
The palki-wallahs were out of sight now, hidden by a slight wooded undulation of the ground.
If he should pretend to have deserted from the Guides and joined the mutineers, a word from one of the palki-wallahs would be his undoing.
It occurred to him that he might quicken the pace of the party by relieving the palki-wallahs of their burden for a time, so he asked the missy sahib, through one of the men, to alight and mount his horse while he led the animal.
The palki-wallahs could not help him; they had little on but their loin-cloths.
We took leave of those honest friendly people the Wallah wallahs and departed at 11 A.
But, to my great joy, I found twelve Lucknow doolie-wallahs waiting by the veranda, lithe and erect, and part of a drilled corps.
But here it rested for the time; he could not decide without an opportunity of witnessing the samp-wallahs at their employment, which he resolved to do the next convenient opportunity.
As this was quite out of the question, we took the road again with heavy hearts and aching feet: Bill cursing, in choicest Bermondsey, niggers in general and gharry-wallahs in particular.
But, when we arrived at the place where the vehicles were grouped, those infernal gharry-wallahs were all so independent that they wouldn't bate a pice of three rupees for the trip.
The sweepers and punkah-wallahs are rewarded separately by the recipient of their attentions.
Reliefs of punkah-wallahs are provided for the barracks, a number of punkahs being connected so that one coolie fans the occupants of a dozen or more charpoys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
