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  • Rajput's house without getting down from his pony and folding up his umbrella.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • They dressed up Tess in man's clothes -- a young Rajput's -- a suit Yasmini had worn on one of her wild excursions, and what with the coiled turban of yellow silk and a little black mustache adjusted by cunning fingers she felt as happy as a child in fancy dress.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • Tom understood to a nicety that drift of the Rajput's martial mind that caused each sepoy to believe himself the equal of any other Rajput man, but permitted him to tolerate fierce disciplining by an alien.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • Grouped in the center of the hall were about two hundred men, all armed with sabers, -- men of every age, and height and swarthiness, from stout, blue-bearded veterans to youths yet in their teens, -- dressed in every hue imaginable from the scarlet frock-coat, white breeches and high black boots of a risaldar-major to the jeweled silken gala costume of the dandiest of Rajput's youth.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • She felt he must think her stupid, and the thought made her every minute less at ease; but Tom's approach, eyed narrowly by Samson for some reason, seemed to raise the Rajput's spirits.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • There was, something in the Rajput's voice that was strange, that hinted at a darker meaning.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • And Will promptly bridled at the Rajput's attitude.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Monty laid both hands on the Rajput's shoulders, struck him knee against knee without warning and pressed him down into a squatting posture.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • They suffered agonies from the heat, and not a little from hunger, and once or twice they were hard put to it to stop the Rajput's charger from neighing when a native pony passed along the nearby road.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • And, to save his eyesight, the sentry complied, while the Rajput's ivory-white teeth grinned at him pleasantly.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

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