The boys lost not a moment in sending down to Madras, to engage the services of a native "moonshee" or teacher. ❋ Unknown (1867)
On one occasion a moonshee of Major Pottinger, who had escaped from Charekhar, named Mohun Beer, came direct from the presence of Mahomed ❋ Various (N/A)
There is not an Indian moonshee, nor a citizen of the Celestial Empire, some of whose ancestors came from the nocturnal orb, who does not know better than that. ❋ Timothy Harley (N/A)
Townsend had an active, eager spirit, and he and the moonshee tired the sun with talk. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)
With the moonshee he had many long talks upon those subjects on which the intellectual Brahmins have discoursed and delighted to discourse ever since the day when Alexander took his bevy of Hellenic Sophists across the Indus. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)
Townsend used to say of the moonshee, “If there is a heaven, that old man is there.” ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)
There were nine rooms -- some boasting of wooden doors -- at the end of the large court, but all were occupied by the seven _sawars_, the postal _moonshee_, the three ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
The water is very good at this place; there is a shop with the usual supplies for caravans, and a staff consisting of a _jemadar_, a _duffadar_, one postal moonshee, seven _sawars_, four _hasildars_, one _havildar_. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
At this place we found the usual _jemadar_, a _duffadar_, and four men, and were cordially received by the _palawan's_ moonshee, a nice fellow who wore a peaked turban of gigantic size, and a brown coat beautifully embroidered on the back and sleeves with violet-coloured silk. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
In the old daguerreotype here reproduced he is seen sitting, by his moonshee, a Brahmin of the highest caste, -- see the mystic Brahmin thread which the Jesuits were accused of wearing, -- from whom he learned ❋ John St. Loe Strachey (1893)
Townsend used to say of the moonshee, "If there is a heaven, that old man is there." ❋ John St. Loe Strachey (1893)
With the moonshee he had many long talks upon those subjects on which the intellectual ❋ John St. Loe Strachey (1893)
Christianity; but once, when pressed too closely by his reverend moonshee with what he regarded as the more pretentious and apocryphal portions of the Bible, he checked that gentleman's advance with the remark that has ever been remembered against him, "_I hate the Bible mostly! _" ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)
Peters had but little natural aptitude for foreign languages; and after working hard, for a time, with the moonshee, he found that he was making so little progress, in comparison with Charlie, that he lost heart; and although he had continued his lessons with the moonshee, he had done so only to the extent of an hour or so a day, whereas Charlie had devoted his whole leisure time to the work. ❋ Unknown (1867)
The moonshee was taken into their counsels, and was asked his opinion as to the disguise which Charlie could adopt, with least risk of detection. ❋ Unknown (1867)
"I have been working hard, sir," Charlie said, "and have had a moonshee for the last year; and as, except when on duty, I have spoken nothing but the native language with him, I can now speak it almost as fluently as I can English." ❋ Unknown (1867)
The moonshee, on his part, generally ignored Tim's existence altogether; addressing him, when obliged to do so, with a ceremonious civility which annoyed Tim more than open abuse would have done. ❋ Unknown (1867)
The moonshee replied that he might pass as a Bheel. ❋ Unknown (1867)
"Not so well, sir; but as you know I have, during the six months that I was at Bombay, and since I have been here, used most of my spare time working up Hindustani, with a moonshee." ❋ Unknown (1867)
