The risaldar promised to release me as soon as I should confess: but instead of that he set fire to the straw out of pure villainy, for what could I do to him? ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
The risaldar took it from me, read it, and questioned me. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
"Were there any other Europeans besides the risaldar among the horsemen?" he asked. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
And looked like a risaldar {officer commanding a troop of horse}? ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
My servants were dispersed, and the risaldar of the horsemen, a European, seized me and thrust me into this house, abandoned like all the rest, for the people fled before his approach, fearing he would burn and destroy. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
The risaldar stepped up close to the dog-cart and spoke to the man he imagined was the sais, using, as was natural, the Rajput tongue. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
The risaldar ordered Tess away without further ceremony, making his meaning plain by taking the horse's head and starting him. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
The guard lined up at attention -- eight men and a risaldar (officer) -- double the regular number by Gungadhura's orders. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
* Tom Tripe becoming more blasphemously vehement as it grew clearer that the risaldar had done entirely right. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
"Now I feel foolish!" said Tess, and the risaldar of the guard thrust his bearded face closer, supposing she spoke to him. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
Grouped in the center of the hall were about two hundred men, all armed with sabers, -- men of every age, and height and swarthiness, from stout, blue-bearded veterans to youths yet in their teens, -- dressed in every hue imaginable from the scarlet frock-coat, white breeches and high black boots of a risaldar-major to the jeweled silken gala costume of the dandiest of Rajput's youth. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
Tess wondered whether to hope that the risaldar of the guard had already reported to Gungadhura the lady doctor's visit, or to hope that he had not. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)
My commission from the risaldar-sahib would include all honorable matters not obstructive to the main issue. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
Of evenings, while they rested, but before the sun went down, the old risaldar would come with his naked sabre and defy "Chota" Cunnigan to try to touch him. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
He had come in his uniform of risaldar of the elder Cunningham's now disbanded regiment, so he had not removed his boots as another native - and he himself if in mufti - would have done. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
If this were a man on whom he must depend for following - if any of all the more than hints dropped by the risaldar were true - it seemed to him that his reception was a little too chilly to be hopeful. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
But after that little accident the old risaldar had sword-sticks fashioned at a village near the road, and ran no more risks of being killed by the stripling he would teach; and before many more days of the road had ribboned out, young Cunningham - bareback or from the saddle - could beat him to the ground, and could hold his own on foot afterward with either hand. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
He seemed to have forgotten what the bungalow was for, or that a sahib needed things to eat, until the ex-risaldar enlightened him, and then he complained wheezily. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
"Be gentle with him, risaldar-sahib; a good cub dies as easily as a poor one, until he knows the way." ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
The German muttered something half under his breath that may have been meant for a compliment to Ranjoor Singh, but the risaldar-major missed it, for he had stepped up to the nearest of the Northern gentlemen and confronted him. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)
