durwan

"The spittle of a durwan* (* Door-keeper.) will not drown a soldier."

Fiancée 2010

Mattu, the Hindu durwan who looked after the European church, was standing in the sunlight below the veranda.

Burmese Days 2002

"The spittle of a durwan* (* Door-keeper.) will not drown a soldier."

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

"The spittle of a durwan* (* Door-keeper.) will not drown a soldier."

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

That insolent official, the Baboo's pampered durwan, sees in her only

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

The _durwan_ first, -- our grenadier doorkeeper, the man of proud port and commanding presence, to whom that portal is a post of honor, -- our

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Where the street ran into shops there was still a shuttered blankness, but here and there a _durwan_ [8] yawned and stretched himself before an open door, and a sweeper made a cloud of dust beneath a commercial verandah.

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

The Khwaja will send word to his durwan that he is going to Murshidabad by river and will not return tonight; his house is to be locked up.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

This matter was soon settled forcibly, and the durwan, or door-keeper, lost by his impudence the present he would otherwise have had from P., besides being in a great fright lest the affair should be reported to the Rajah.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

They drink and spit at the spring, and he sees us and salaams, and looks in to see the durwan, who is one of his countrymen.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900