| 单词 | memsahib |
| 例句 | I pretended to know what a memsahib is. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “The memsahibs have got you well trained, I see,” said Uncle Brian. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I can do the Sunday Times crossword, so long as the memsahib is at my side. Christopher Buckley: Suburban Crank 2013-06-04T14:07:04Z Paula McLain’s new novel, “Circling the Sun,” is a throwback to that old Africa — the one that belonged to the British — where house boys wear white gloves and serve tea to memsahib. Author of ‘The Paris Wife’ reimagines the world of aviator Beryl Markham 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z And would have, if the memsahib hadn’t shot me a glance that said, Dear, why don’t we move on from the heron? Christopher Buckley: Suburban Crank 2013-06-04T14:07:04Z Both look rather like memsahibs, or the children of memsahibs, themselves. 'I won't do toilets': the unvarnished reality of life as a maid in India 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Equally, no English artist would have managed the brilliantly bright colours used by Impey’s artists: the tentative washes of a memsahib’s watercolour are a world away. Violence, victors and victims: how to look at the art of the British empire 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z When the dear old eyes opened at last, they looked around in wonder until they rested upon the memsahib's face. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z In those days I rode seventy miles with an English memsahib and her babe on my saddle-bow. Kim 2011-03-13T03:00:25.327Z “When one’s east of Suez, and the memsahibs have all gone home....” Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Her mother shook her head, but her father laughed and called her his little memsahib. Nell Freudenberger: “An Arranged Marriage.” 2010-08-30T04:00:00Z He is as complete a heavy-footed, uncomprehending, bungle-fisted fool as any memsahib in the East ever took into her establishment. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Meantime the memsahib had entered her gari and was being driven as fast as the ponies could take her to the hospital. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The Collector's memsahib had gone off with the doctor, leaving her little child to the tender mercies of an ayah! Banked Fires The ayah saw her and put up a prayer that the memsahib might never find the love of her children taken away from her and given to a stranger. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II They will even go to the length of poisoning each other in order to step into a lucrative position, with a really big master and a memsahib who does not give too much trouble. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China "To do good acts so that you may be reincarnated as a heaven-born, a Brahmini, perhaps even come back as a memsahib." Caste The memsahib did not leave for several hours. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "Oh, memsahib," he wailed, "I wanted a watch!" African Camp Fires They were brought back," testified a spy; "sixty sahibs, twenty-five memsahibs, and four children. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places This is what must be done now, and done quickly: the loads of your memsahib must be brought here, and camp made properly, according to the custom. The Leopard Woman "Is there a memsahib in the home of the Sahib?" she asked. Caste No, Sarah," the memsahib finally assured her, "you are very much alive and just to convince you I will scold you a little. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "May the memsahib never lack plenty from which to give!" he said, for there is no word for "Thank you" in all India. The Winds of the World Directly she said this, the other memsahibs said, 'We also will die with our husbands,' and they all sat down each by her husband. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places "You have heard the memsahib speak, you men of the memsahib's safari," remarked Kingozi; then: "You, Jack, whom I made chief of askaris, you speak." The Leopard Woman "And meaning, Sahib, it would not be right if they saw you bearing on your horse one who is not a memsahib?" Caste The memsahib, sinking on her knees by the bed with her arms around the thin, brown shoulders, implanted a kiss upon the gray hair. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "I will bless the memsahib at each mouthful!" said Sita Ram. The Winds of the World The Nana ordered the sahibs to be separated from the memsahibs, and shot by the 1st Bengal Native Infantry…. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places But will the memsahib of to-morrow take warning by the fate of Helen Peachey, who went out to India in all her bridal bravery, in all her youth and freshness? Without Prejudice "He has promised to send European memsahibs to call on her," said the priest, and the maharajah gnashed his teeth and swore like a man stung by a hornet. Guns of the Gods You have never seen her for you cannot enter our homes as your wives can, but the memsahib has met her. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "But, if I take the memsahib with me?" Told in the East The memsahib was very, very ill, she said. The Story of Sonny Sahib The one great anxiety was lest he should die of old age before the date appointed for the memsahib's shoot. The Chronicles of Clovis "In the dark you will pass for the memsahib," she urged. Guns of the Gods Then the man of whom they rented the lodging suggested that Shama Sahai should go up to the house of a white memsahib who could make people well and ask for help. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "Salaam, memsahib!" boomed a deep voice from the darkness. Told in the East And then, in a changed voice, unconscious of the time and place, 'Tooni, what happened to the memsahib?' he asked. The Story of Sonny Sahib "And whose memsahib was thy aunt?" said Adam, with the mango stone in his fist. The Day's Work - Part 01 "Then ask the memsahib's permission to pass through the house and leave by the back way." Guns of the Gods The memsahib could do wonderful things, the man said, and without doubt would cure the sick woman. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z Had the memsahib been slain, she had at least died in full view of the English—and there was a battle to be won. Told in the East There was nothing else to carry, and that was fortunate, for the cart in which the memsahib lay was too full of sick and wounded to hold anything more. The Story of Sonny Sahib They look upon sahibs and memsahibs as gods! The Valley of the Moon "I shall stay here, if the memsahib permits." Guns of the Gods Through the open door of the building she could see a white memsahib in a blue striped dress, sitting at a little table, writing slips of paper and handing them out to the sick people. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z They have sought elsewhere and not found him; and there is talk—He claimed the memsahib as his share of the plunder. Told in the East Tooni always agreed, and when the khaber came that all the memsahibs and the children had been killed by the sepoys, she agreed weeping. The Story of Sonny Sahib A rickshaw was coming down from the Mall, and the memsahib was in it. The Pool in the Desert "What memsahib?" he asked, his voice gruff with emotion. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z And so when the missionary memsahib said to him, "You will marry her, won't you?" his astonishment slowly gave way to a sense of high moral purpose. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The memsahib and the new god would surely save her. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The memsahib had said nothing all this time, had known nothing. The Story of Sonny Sahib Clearly he could not deliver a letter to a memsahib who was not. The Pool in the Desert The memsahib praised the girl for her bravery and thanked her for her kindness to Old Sarah who was very dear to the English lady's heart. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "No, Memsahib, not even then, for it was better that Old Sarah should die all alone than that the memsahib and the dear, orphan children should die too." In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The familiar gray hair drew the memsahib's eyes at once. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z Tooni, wiping away her helpless tears with the edge of her head covering, had said, 'Na, memsahib, na!' and stroked the hot hand that pointed, and then the mistress had forgotten again. The Story of Sonny Sahib More I do not know, but it appears that the memsahib has gone to her father and mother in Belaat, being very sorrowful because the Colonel-sahib has left her to shoot.' The Pool in the Desert And a few minutes later Jessa stood before a sweet-faced English woman, but so embarrassed by the memsahib's presence that she scarcely dared raise her eyes. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The memsahib, on her knees beside the bed, looked up at the big, burly, white man standing on the other side of the narrow couch. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z "Get my topi, boy, and order the gari quickly," the memsahib called to her bearer. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z And then, because the little memsahib was a woman of such mighty spirit, they fell to work. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z The memsahib will surely forgive me if I come a little late. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z |
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