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  • The lama watched the ticca-gharri rumble into the compound, and strode off, snuffing between each long stride.

    Kim 2003

  • Johnny Lockett was not very popular with his superiors after that and I believe he went back to driving the internal gharri.

    Coming of Age: 1939-1946 John Cox

  • "I have discovered," I said to Bhima Gandharva after a short experience of the _dâk-gharri_ and the _dâk_-bungalows -- "I have discovered a general remark about India which is _not_ absurd: all the horses are devils and all the _dâk_-bungalow servants are patriarchs."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

  • The _dâk-gharri_ is a comfortable-enough long carriage on four wheels, and constitutes the principal mode of conveyance for travelers in India besides the railway.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

  • Leonie was sitting on the edge of her bed waiting for the _gharri_ to take her to the station; she had lunched and breakfasted in her bedroom, in fact she had lived there since her interview with the manager, which had been indescribably unpleasant for him, in that it had been so distressing to the gentle girl as she had sat and nodded her head and looked at him out of agonised, forgiving eyes.

    Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

  • Although he was a skilled man he had been put to work driving an internal gharri around the base on trivial errands but now he was called in to stand by a machine that was honing the bores of cylinder blocks and he was doing just that when the top brass came by.

    Coming of Age: 1939-1946 John Cox

  • "Also go call me a _tikka-gharri_ [55] and select a _very_ senior horse, blind, angular, withered, wilted, and answering to the name, most obviously, of Skin-and-Grief -- lest I be taken by the Grizzly-Goslings for a down-trodden plutocrat and a brother -- and not seen for the fierce and 'aughty oppressor that I am."

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • Pharoah's daughter; and the other by tram or gharri along the Mena Road to the Zoological Gardens.

    The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912

  • I took that road, and he stepped out of a _tikka-gharri_ at her door.

    The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Fifteen minutes after he had left his quarters, no longer in khaki uniform, but dressed as a Sikh gentleman, the whole squadron knew the color of his undershirt, also that he had hired a _tikka-gharri_, and that his only weapon was the ornamental dagger that a true Sikh wears twisted in his hair.

    The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909

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