Afridis

A revolt of the Afridis was the event most to be feared by the British, and it now appears to have taken place.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

The pass itself is controlled by a powerful semi-independent native tribe called the Afridis, estimated at

Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

I remembered my old sparring chums, the Gilzais and Baluchis and Khels and Afridis - and those fiends of Ghazis - and wondered if the Ruskis knew precisely the kind of folk they'd be relying on for safe-conduct and alliance.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

If you return, thinks I; I'd seen too many gallant pups just like him, on the Afghan frontier, and I'd no doubt the Mescaleros, whoever they might be, were just as adroit at subaltern-eating as the Afridis.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

"She will be busy presently fooling those Afridis," he continued, waving his cigarette.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

“Chastened by a daily rain of bombs”: “Afridis in Full Flight Before British Planes,” NYT, August 18, 1930.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

But according to South Asia News, the tribes are up in arms, though I only see mention of the Afridis and Kyhberis.

Archive 2004-03-21 Laban 2004

But according to South Asia News, the tribes are up in arms, though I only see mention of the Afridis and Kyhberis.

UK Commentators Laban 2004

The Afridis live in Tirah, a region of tremendous mountains lying to the north of Peshawar and the east of the Khyber Pass.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

The indignant and now triumphant Afridis ran along the mountain ridges firing with deadly skill upon the long columns defiling painfully down the river bed, and forced to ford its freezing waters 10 to 12 times in every march.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003