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  • In return for this piece of information, the inhabitants of Keune expressed a desire to see the _Feringhis feed_; rather a novel request, but one which we easily gratified by striking the walls of the tent while we eat our dinner.

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • "That Feringhis should take my fortress, the strongest in the world, in a quarter of an hour is impossible, for it took me, with five hundred horsemen, double that time."

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • The wonderful manner in which the Hindustani soldiers held their ground, notwithstanding that they were incessantly taunted by their mutinous comrades for aiding the Feringhis against their own people, was also much dilated upon.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • The following morning we buried our gallant companions, amongst them our respected serjeant-major (Airey), in one deep grave; but a report was current, that shortly after our departure, the bodies had been disinterred and exposed in front of the grave, that every Affgh [= a] n might witness and exult in the disgrace to which they had subjected the corpses of the Feringhis.

    A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

  • Feringhis in the choicest Hindustani; but, so far as we could see, there were no sepoys amongst them.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Accustomed from the earliest days to spoliation and oppression, and to a periodical change of masters, they had some reason to doubt whether the rule of the Feringhis would be more permanent than that of the Moghuls or the Mahrattas.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • British Embassy, and of the whole detested race of Feringhis.

    The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

  • Dilawur, and it was the custom of the land to kill all strangers who could not account for themselves, and more especially those who had any connection with the dreaded Feringhis.

    The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

  • "I am Bahaud-din Khan," replied the horseman, "and I come from Ali Musjid, which the Feringhis have taken, and I follow those sons of pigs, the Kasilbash Horse, who you saw pass in such a hurry just now."

    The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

  • The Rajah was, however, absent on a sporting excursion, and the darogah refused to provide the colonel with lodgings, alleging his master's orders that no Feringhis should be allowed in the town; and it was not till after a long altercation, of which the colonel gives himself greatly the best, that he succeeded in finding quarters in the house of a

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

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