punkah-wallah

Punkahs are going continually at meal times, and if one sits down to write in the saloon, the “punkah-wallah” spies one out and begins his refreshing labors at once.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

"Your punkah-wallah confessed how you wrote your cyphers with the aid of a book," sneers the Akali.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Your punkah-wallah spoke under persuasion … in unspeakable pain, which I trust you will spare yourself.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

I bawled to the punkah-wallah to go easy, but with the door closed he didn't hear, so I turned out, cursing.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

You put them in the Holy Book by your bed — blaspheming your own putrid faith! — whence your old punkah-wallah took them to a courier for Simla!

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Then we shall open the vents a little more - your punkah-wallah cooked slowly, for many hours - did he not, Jan?

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

I bawled to the punkah-wallah to go easy, but with the door closed he didn't hear, so I turned out, cursing.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Then we shall open the vents a little more — your punkah-wallah cooked slowly, for many hours — did he not, Jan?

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Your punkah-wallah spoke under persuasion ... in unspeakable pain, which I trust you will spare yourself.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

"Your punkah-wallah confessed how you wrote your cyphers with the aid of a book," sneers the Akali.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990