rissaldar

Two more stragglers were caught farther on, and since there wasn't a tree handy Rowbotham and the Sikh rissaldar cut their heads off.

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I was having a good crack with them, for these were the kind of scoundrels with whom I'd ridden (albeit reluctantly) in my Afghan days, when their rissaldar* (* Native officer commanding a cavalry troop.) - came up - and at the sight of me he stopped dead in the stable door, gaping as though he couldn't believe his eyes.

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Reynolds lined it out in English, from the Bible, and the rissaldar stood there with his staff under his arm, at attention, with his whiskers bristling, bawling his own translation:

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Shouldn't wonder if he wasn't rissaldar - havildar at least.

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He did it through a brazen-lunged rissaldar who interpreted for him, and you never heard the like.

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I beat him up to ten rupees each - so tomorrow let six of us join her cavalry, and at nightfall we shall unjoin, and meet thee, rissaldar, and all ride off rejoicing.

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But I couldn't think I'd done anything to give myself away - until next morning, when the rissaldar called me out of the ranks, and told me to report to Mason's office in the British lines forthwith.

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But Carmichael-Smith, the ass, was determined, so there we stood, in extended line between the other squadrons of the regiment facing inwards, the native officers at ease before their respective troops, and the rissaldar calling us to attention as Carmichael-Smith, looking thunderous, rode up and saluted.

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“And my rissaldar will look after your Scind ées.”

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

I looked from the cloak to him and his rissaldar, who was throwing me a salaam and calling my escort to attention, and the tiny doubt that had been stirring at the back of my mind since Speedy had rejoiced at my being “with” the expedition grew sud denly into a dreadful foreboding as he put the cloak into my reluc tant hand.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005