Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers — they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
But there was something stranger still: I'd just bidden farewell to Sardul's escort and my jampan, and was being conducted on foot by a yellow-clad officer of the Palace Guard, when I noticed an extraordinary figure lounging in an embrasure above the gate, swigging from an enormous tankard and barking orders at a party of Guardsmen drilling with the light guns on the wall. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
Her good name had plainly died in the late '20s, for she said it was a capital lark, and presently we were slipping through the bushes of Sale's garden, keeping clear of the dinner guests' jampan* (* A kind of sedan chair.) bearers, who were squatting by the front verandah. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
* (* Bravo!) and the Punjabi equivalent of "Mr Chairman!", some pointing out that the Maharani had promised them fifteen rupees a month to march against the bastardised British pigs (the spectator in the jampan drew his curtain tactfully at this point) and Jawaheer was just the chap to lead them. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
I saw another side to the Khalsa when we set out for Lahore after noon, Flashy now riding in state in his jampan, white topper and fly-whisk at the high port, with Jassa kicking the bearers 'arses to give tone to our progress. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers - they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
Carriages were not then used as they are now, and my wife travelled in a _jampan_, a kind of open, half-reclining sedan chair, carried by relays of four men, while I rode or walked by her side. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
Elma indeed looked a lovely creature when she came out of her room an hour or two later to show herself to her mother before she stepped into the hated jampan. ❋ Unknown (1888)
They stopped the jampan and appealed to her, but she could not understand a word they said. ❋ Unknown (1888)
Very slowly and laboriously they clambered back again to the road above; there was no sign of the jampannis, and the jampan itself had gone over the _kudd_ and was no more to be seen. ❋ Unknown (1888)
I suppose I should have made my husband walk by the side of the jampan if ❋ Unknown (1888)
"Didn't you ever feel nervous at first," Elma asked, "when you went out in a jampan on a dark night down a very steep road?" ❋ Unknown (1888)
One of the men on the inner side of the road stumbled up the bank, and, losing his balance, let go the pole, and the jampan heeled over. ❋ Unknown (1888)
As soon as the jampan tilted they let go, and directly they saw you had gone over they ran away. ❋ Unknown (1888)
Elma's startled scream unnerved the other runners, who swerved and stumbled, and in a moment the jampan was overturned down the side of the ❋ Unknown (1888)
"My jampan went over the side, down the precipice," said Elma, "and I am afraid those poor jampannis must have been killed." ❋ Unknown (1888)
