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Examples
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By the irony of fate, the occupant of another dhoolie, which was presently placed by his, turned out to be his brother Charles, whose arm had been shattered.
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Nicholson in a dhoolie by the roadside just within the Cashmere Gate.
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From what I have been able to learn, both the Indian dhoolie-bearers and the hastily recruited Colonial bearer companies were most successful in the removal of the large number of wounded men from the field of Colenso.
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In a covered dhoolie Wilmshurst was sent down to a hospital base-camp.
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Meeting a covered dhoolie, I asked the bearers who was in it.
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On the 9th I could not stand, and the bearers, with their peculiar little chant, to keep them out of step, brought me down to the Congregational Chapel in a dhoolie.
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Unhappily the general was ill in bed with slight fever, and had to be carried to another house up the hill in a dhoolie.
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He says he was knocked silly, and felt a bit fluttered, but had no pain till they lifted him into the dhoolie.
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At the station of the Bearer company he dismounted, and was carried to the dressing station in a dhoolie.
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_ -- Notwithstanding Sir George White's protest, Boer guns are still laid to bear on the Town Hall, and shells frequently fall in the enclosure near it, and have hit the building, sending splinters in all directions, by one of which a dhoolie-bearer was killed.
chained_bear commented on the word dhoolie
"After an uncomfortable journey by dhoolie (a rather humbler kind of litter than a palanquin) into which the monsoon rains had poured she arrived in Dalhousie to find that there were not quarters available."
—Annabel Venning, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005), 71
May 5, 2010