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  • "Jemadar," the major said, "take that man away with you.

    On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War William Heysham Overend 1867

  • There were ten great divisions, each ruled by its Jemadar, and each division vied with all the others in the service which it rendered to its people.

    The Sudden Curve: 2005

  • There were ten great divisions, each ruled by its Jemadar, and each division vied with all the others in the service which it rendered to its people.

    Discovering "The Moon Maid" 2005

  • There were ten great divisions, each ruled by its Jemadar, and each division vied with all the others in the service which it rendered to its people.

    Discovering "The Moon Maid" 2005

  • Last of all and totally off topic, the obituary of a Pathan whose bravery was in our cause - the late Jemadar Ali Haidar VC, who won his medal in this battle.

    Churchill On The Frontier - Mamund Valley III Laban 2004

  • Last of all and totally off topic, the obituary of a Pathan whose bravery was in our cause - the late Jemadar Ali Haidar VC, who won his medal in this battle.

    Archive 2004-12-05 Laban 2004

  • Farquhar and Shaw, necessitating my prudent interference when they waxed too wroth; by a hunting excursion now and then to the Kingani plain and river; by social conversation with the old Jemadar and his band of Baluches, who were never tired of warning me that the

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Seyd Burghash did not send a letter to me, but to the Jemadar.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Hassan Shah the Jemadar threw out a man to keep us in sight, and then another, and after that a third, till his party was a hurrying string of connecting files.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • "They've learned their lesson, Gopal, " he told his Jemadar, 'so next time they'll try to keep us quiet by firing bigger volleys up at the firesteps.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

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