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Examples
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He had known of that thought-reading trick ever since his ayah (native nurse) taught him to lisp Hindustanee; just as surely he knew that its impudent, repeated use was intended to sap his belief in himself.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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I suppose everybody — everybody who has been in India, at least — has heard the name of Bobbachy Bahawder: it is derived from the two Hindustanee words — bobbachy, general; bahawder, artilleryman.
Burlesques 2006
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Mrs.Jow. ran shrieking out of the room, Julia fainted, the cursed black children squalled, and their d — — d nurse fell on her knees, gabbling some infernal jargon of Hindustanee.
Burlesques 2006
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I shouted to him in a voice of thunder (in the Hindustanee tongue of course),
Burlesques 2006
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With a view to extinguish every attempt at rivalry the Hindustanee merchant built this magnificent mosque at his own expense.
Eothen 2003
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A Hindustanee merchant having amassed an immense fortune settled in Cairo, and soon found that his riches in the then state of the political world gave him vast power in the city — power, however, the exercise of which was much restrained by the counteracting influence of other wealthy men.
Eothen 2003
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Hindustanee, but what really was the use of that? — and then lying, as they saw him, on the lawn.
To the Lighthouse 2002
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Hindustanee is as intelligible as their talk among themselves.
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson
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"I could," said Mervyn with a sigh, "and I liked talking Hindustanee much better than English."
Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children Clara Mulholland
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"Well, I would much rather everyone would speak Hindustanee, for that would be much nicer."
Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children Clara Mulholland
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