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  • However, up towards Mhow, who should I run into but Johnny Nichol-son, whom I hadn't seen since Afghanistan, fifteen years before, trotting along on a Persian pony and dressed like a Baluchi robber with a beard down to his belly, and a couple of Sikh lancers in tow.

    Fiancée 2010

  • When news of Cawnpore's fall got out, it gave the Mutiny a tremendous fillip; revolt spread all along the Ganges valley and in Central India, the garrisons at Mhow and Agra and a dozen other places rebelled, and most notable of all, Henry Lawrence got beat fighting a dani 'silly battle at Chinhat, and had to hole up in Lucknow, which went under siege.

    Fiancée 2010

  • His father Ramji was an army officer stationed at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh – he had risen to the highest rank an Indian was allowed to hold at that time under British rule.

    Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar – Alibagh « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • I ran from Mhow by night, bribing the police, who had been bribed to hand me over without question to my enemies in the South.

    Kim 2003

  • At Mhow a woman brought charge against me of theft of jewellery in that city which I had left.

    Kim 2003

  • In the Mhow area of India, where it is common practice to feed goats on the leaves of trees gathered in the forest, an experiment was conducted with uncastrated male goats aged about 14 months and weighing some 25 kg.

    Chapter 6 1994

  • However, up towards Mhow, who should I run into but Johnny Nicholson, whom I hadn't seen since Afghanistan, fifteen years before, trotting along on a Persian pony and dressed like a Baluchi robber with a beard down to his belly, and a couple of Sikh lancers in tow.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • When news of Cawnpore's fall got out, it gave the Mutiny a tremendous fillip; revolt spread all along the Ganges valley and in Central India, the garrisons at Mhow and Agra and a dozen other places rebelled, and most notable of all, Henry Lawrence got beat fighting a dani 'silly battle at Chinhat, and had to hole up in Lucknow, which went under siege.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • However, up towards Mhow, who should I run into but Johnny Nichol-son, whom I hadn't seen since Afghanistan, fifteen years before, trotting along on a Persian pony and dressed like a Baluchi robber with a beard down to his belly, and a couple of Sikh lancers in tow.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • When news of Cawnpore's fall got out, it gave the Mutiny a tremendous fillip; revolt spread all along the Ganges valley and in Central India, the garrisons at Mhow and Agra and a dozen other places rebelled, and most notable of all, Henry Lawrence got beat fighting a dani 'silly battle at Chinhat, and had to hole up in Lucknow, which went under siege.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

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