How To Use Sahib In A Sentence
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With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor.
Inside the Whale
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* (* Teacher.) "The sahibs love their soldiers - and so the gora-cavalry broke Lal's string for him tonight!
Fiancée
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Now the woman's voice came to them calling earnestly, "Sahib, sahib, sahib!" she cried.
Jack Haydon's Quest
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'Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka.
The Pool in the Desert
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Heat-jaded Sahibs and Memsahibs came here to escape the coast's hottest months, they invented snooker at the pukka Ooty Club and came to gossip at Charing Cross - locations were named by the British.
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‘Aye Banta Singh, come here and pump up the cycle of the chota sahib,’ he commanded.
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No, Sahib; no _khidmutgar_ waits on more than one gentleman," replied
Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
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If we tune our minds and hearts to the nectarous melodies of Gurbani with a live faith in Sri Guru Granth Sahib, we are saved.
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Geb and Sahib stuttered in fright and pointed behind her.
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The authors of the verses of the Guru Grantha Sahib are not only the Sikh gurus, but also Hindu poet-saints.
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Barlow turned his face to where the songster was perched in the top branches of a wild-fig, and Bootea, said in a low voice: "Sahib, it is said that the shama is a soul come back to earth to sing of love that men may not grow harsh.
Caste
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One of the oldest markets in Bangalore, Russell Market was built around 1927 and its clientele included English memsahibs who were driven in their horse drawn carriages to source their vegetables and meat for their kitchens.
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Perhaps the jewel in the crown, so to speak, of the Central Business District or ‘The Fort’ is the old colonial Army and Navy Store, built in 1889, when Victorian memsahibs with parasols went shopping with their servants.
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`I am sorry, sahib ," the driver replied apologetically.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Now it is the order that the Havildar of the Thana should send a straight report of all dacoities to the Dipty Sahib.
Soldiers Three
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Kathmandu, Dec 2: He was thought to have been born a Muslim and yet his songs are part of the Guru Granth sahib, the sacred text of Sikhs.
Undefined
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Cadman Sahib had been heard to call him "Skag," but Cadman Sahib would permit no one to call him by that title excepting himself; therefore it was a sealed title, to pronounce which few are worthy.
Son of Power
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Knowing all this, the Babu asked the Brahman point-blank to perform a false samadhi, that is to say, to feign an inspiration and to announce to the sorrowing mother that her late son's will had acted consciously in all the circumstances; that he brought about his end in the body of the flying fox, that he was tired of that grade of transmigration, that he longed for death in order to attain a higher position in the animal kingdom, that he is happy, and that he is deeply indebted to the sahib who broke his neck and so freed him from his abject embodiment.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs - and the English common soldiers are no better.
Fiancée
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`Sorry, sahib, no more whisky," the barman replied quickly.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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The ‘burra sahib’ nodded, a signal that the first lash should be administered.
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Sahib, the house is not there, nor the well, nor the big tank which they call dams, nor the little fruit-trees, nor the cattle.
Traffics and Discoveries
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On the evening before the day fixed for the execution at Khanmulla, they were engaged in this fashion when the _khitmutgar_ entered with the news that a _sahib_ desired to speak to him.
The Lamp in the Desert
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Write as though the Jung-i-Lat Sahib himself had come by stealth with a vast army outsetting to war. '
Kim
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His bungalow was a pretty big establishment, you see, just off the east end of the Mall, near the British infantry lines, with about thirty servants, and since there was no proper mem-sahib, and his khansamah* (* Butler.) was almost senile, there was no order about the place at all.
Fiancée
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We come to know how the white sahibs started the earlier plantations.
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Burberry'nin, kreasyon yetkilisi Christopher Bailey, 3 boyut teknolojisinin küresel izleyicileri Londra'daki şova getireceğini, kumaş, renk ve fondaki müzik hakkında fikir sahibi yapacağını ifade ediyor.
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An authority on Indian Classical music, Surinder Singh "Singh Bandhu" said that parhtaal gayaki was the most arduous and subtle form of singing even as it was the singular constituent of Guru Granth sahib.
PunjabNewsline News
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Mirza, like most romantic heroes, was a stranger to Sahiban's land and belonged to a feuding clan.
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Desmond asked himself the question without much interest, and was again allowing his thoughts to rove when he caught the word "sahib," and then the word "Firangi" somewhat loudly spoken.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
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Yet the Sherpas did not climb this and other peaks until recruited as porters on sahibs' expeditions.
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a Sahib called Eger Sahib (Edgar?) was killed for a jest by the Boer-log.
Traffics and Discoveries
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He said that his breed was dying, and that it was not well-argued for any man to lie unthriftily in the grateful dead of ‘Estreekin Sahib’.
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Also, we're one of the few stand alone eateries in India to offer lobsters and crabs which was important because the burra sahibs were partial to them!
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The next morning on the same spot I saw him again with a fresh dish of the same kind of chola chart, happy and giggling when he approached my car and I asked him "Aren't you the same boy who was crying right there, yesterday" and he answered back with a broad smile "yes Sahib, this is all a routine of life" ….
Karachi Metblogs
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Oh my God, the antidefamation league of Calcutta is cursing us;please, Sahib, we at the Growler are writing satire--LIKE CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY--we are SATIRISTS!
Nonconformity Forever!
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By putting Guru Granth Sahib in Hindu mandirs, simple Sikh villagers will begin to go to pay obeisance regularly.
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But then he was also a burra sahib who believed that first things ought to come first.
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If Harold never quite fitted his job, my grandmother for her part was not a natural memsahib.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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After the ceremonial opening, a hymn should be read from the Guru Granth Sahib.
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Vests under the dinner jackets must have been uncomfortable to wear in the Indian heat, so the sahibs tied a bandana around their waists (kamar in Urdu) and began calling it a cummerbund.
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Sikhs in the Indian state of Punjab celebrate the tricentenary of the Sikh holy book the Guru Granth Sahib.
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Come, Sahib! me show you bikh plant -- plenty grow here.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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Bradshaw is sort of totally English and very fun to write as is his wife, the memsahib.
Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just
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Hillary, known to the Sherpa people as Burra-sahib, meaning ` ` big in stature, big in heart, '' returned to Nepal many times to climb.
Everest is alone, Hillary is no more
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I perceived within myself, saying, "He is disturbed, and listens to my advice with impatience;" and, having called the sahib diwan, or lord high treasurer, in virtue of a former intimacy that subsisted between us, I stated his case and spoke so fully upon his skill and merits, that he put him in nomination for a trifling office.
The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
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His bungalow was a pretty big establishment, you see, just off the east end of the Mall, near the British infantry lines, with about thirty servants, and since there was no proper mem-sahib, and his khansamah* (* Butler.) was almost senile, there was no order about the place at all.
Fiancée
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Then he gathered up his son and fled; for he said that thou didst change a quiet trader into an impudent bandier of words with the Sahibs, and he feared a like fate.
Kim
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For which reason she called her ayah, while the Sahib was in his bath before dinner and said to her hurriedly:
Son of Power
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KATHMANDU - He was thought to have been born a Muslim and yet his songs are part of the Guru Granth sahib, the sacred text of Sikhs.
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And just because you call the memsahib ‘baji’ doesn’t make her care about you like a big sister would.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
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It’s March 2005, and I’m just the 75th sap — or “foreigner,” in Mizo (from the colonial Hindi term sahib) — so far this year, and one of the few sap journalists to have shown an interest in the bamboo flowering, or in anything at all in Mizoram.
Waiting for the Plague
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He would remember himself, and say ‘Salaam, memsahib,’ putting his hands to his forehead, and then take off again, speaking his mixture of Hindi and Tamil, grimacing, gesturing at an invisible audience.
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Though an ardent supporter of empire, Kipling was in many ways an untypical "sahib," an individualist bent on exploring the forbidden, seamier side of the Punjab region for his fiction.
Rudyard and the Raj
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`Sorry, sahib, no more whisky," the barman replied quickly.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Sahib," I said, considering his words as a cook tastes curry, "our men be overweary to have fight in them.
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
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`I am sorry, sahib ," the driver replied apologetically.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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But word is going round from mouth to mouth that many sahibs have been superseded, and that only real sahibs such as Byng-bahadur have commands in this hour.
Rung Ho
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I liked watching the meticulously-curated history of Singapore, especially the old photographs of rickshaw drivers and their imperious "memsahib" passengers during Singapore's heyday as a British colony, at the Singapore Historical Museum.
Dana Kennedy: Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth
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Well, sahib, as to that they higgled and bargained for another hour,
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
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Just as Sahib reached for the handle, Calla heard the sounds of footfalls rushing up the stairs.
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She had enjoyed the life of a railway memsahib, but hated the constant movement it involved.
A House on Wheels : Anita Rau Badami talks about her novel Tamarind Woman
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Dammit, I speak Pushtu as well as you do, and Urdu even better - wasn't I an agent with Sekundar Sahib?
Fiancée
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Mawlawi Abdul Rahman – Mawlawi Sahib – is a thin, frail and very shy man with a thick beard.
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Here are these people sweeping the floor, filling containers with water, picking up cow dung, but when they return home, they revert to their roles as sahib bahadurs and memsahibs.
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pukka sahib
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The saice seemed more weathered than the twenty-year-old girl, for he limped back into the smelly shelter of the servants 'quarters to cook his breakfast and mumble about dogs and sahibs who prefer the sun.
Rung Ho
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For example, case histories often place the etiology of women's madness in a failure to fulfill the social roles of the memsahib, and psychiatrists often found that men went mad when they failed to meet military standards for discipline.
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But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs — and the English common soldiers are no better.
Flashman In The Great Game
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My shikari, writhing with extreme excitement, hissed, "Baloo, sahib, baloo!" and began aimlessly running to and fro, apparently hoping to meet the bear somewhere.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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Sher Khan, havildar, * (* Sergeant.) lately of Ismeet Sahib's company of the Guides,7 as your honour says," croaks he.
Fiancée
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§ Desi sahibs will receive the services of the gori mem at reasonable prices.
Heera Mandi On The Highway
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A sublime poet, his literary output is as long as it is impressive and includes: Jaap Sahib, invoking the many attributive names of the Divine; Sawaiyyas (quatrains); Akal Ustat (Lauding the Timeless); Chandi Ki Var, a ballad depicting the eternal contest between good and evil; and Zafarnama (Epistle of Victory), a defiant letter to the Mughal Emperor.
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh
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Send me this good horse to the stables, sahib; I am overweary.
Rung Ho
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There were some, as it happened, who ventured to cross swords with him, but the result taught them that this stern-faced, black-bearded giant of a sahib was their master every whit as much as was Edwardes.
John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub
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Here, willfully ignoring the geography of their location, generations of mandarins and their memsahibs gossiped, took tea and went to the races, as if they were somewhere in Surrey rather than on the borders of Tibet.
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Excuse me sardar sahib, but who has given you the Padma Shri," she asked tauntingly.
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Sheikh Farid Chair, Guru Ravi Das Chair, Guru Granth Sahib Chair (yet to be instituted), departments of Punjabi and lexicography.
The Times of India
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The major _sahib_ was in, the _khitmutgar_ told him and Phil scribbled an urgent message on his card and sent it to him.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
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He added: '_Sahib, ham log larai men bahut tez hain, magar jang ka bandobast nahin jante_' ( 'Sir, we can fight well, but we do not understand military arrangements').
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Activists started descending at Gurdwara Amb Sahib in Mohali from early morning itself and were there till about 12: 30 pm, when after partaking a 'langar', they proceeded towards
The Times of India
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No "sahib", or downcast eyes, or humble tone, you notice.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
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All round the edge of the forest a continuous ring of wooden huts and white tents showed that the "sahib" on holiday intent had marked Gulmarg for his own.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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I am not a _budmash_, [Footnote: Rascal.] sahib," he exclaimed proudly.
The Wings of the Morning
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And it appeared afterwards that during the night the Biluchis had recounted many fabulous incidents, all tending to show that the sahib was a very important as well as a very ingenious Firangi, so that this reputation, coupled with an offer of good pay, overcame any scruples the men might retain.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
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Mufti Sahib sacrifices the action part of Dialogue in his speeches, thereby making a mere verbalism.
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My father is an Arab, my mother a Gujarati Khoja with a memsahib upbringing.
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I almost passed out from the noonday sun and humidity at the Singapore Botanical Gardens until the director, Dr. Chin See Chung, another Yale grad, whisked out a giant parasol for me as if I were modern-day memsahib.
Dana Kennedy: Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth
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And in the wake of this came the dreaded memsahib: the wife and companion and helpmeet of the officer, the district commissioner, the civil servant, and the judge.
Victoria’s Secret
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Perhaps you do not know that she was my sister-in-law, and the chief person in depriving me of my home and property, and Miss Sahiba, I've so often longed to tell you that the house you rented is the one in which I was born.
Daughters of India
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_Bahut, bahut salaam_, [22] Sahib!" he broke out in a tremulous fervour of gratitude.
Captain Desmond, V.C.
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They began to remember that the hakim might after all be a trickster, and to realize how much too friendly -- how almost intimate he had been with the sahibs at Ali Masjid.
In The Time Of Light
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In their race to realise the more-or-less elusive American dream, the characters come across as study cases or automatons, caught in the fast-forward gear to become suburban sahibs.
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The two sacred epitomes - ‘Aadi Granth or Guru Granth Sahib’ (now onwards GGS) and ‘Dasam Granth’ have also been given the stature of ‘Guru’ by the tenth Guru - Guru Gobinda Singh.
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Anyone who walks round the Guru Granth Sahib or the Gurdwara must do so in a clockwise direction.
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Also, we're one of the few stand alone eateries in India to offer lobsters and crabs which was important because the burra sahibs were partial to them!
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These will include Guru Nanak Chair, Bhai Vir Singh Chair, Sheikh Farid Chair, Guru Ravi Das Chair, Guru Granth Sahib Chair (yet to be instituted), Departments of Panjabi and Lexicography.
PunjabNewsline News
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Giving details, the Chairman has asserted that Guru Granth Sahib revered by the Sikhs as a living God, contained verses of 15 Hindu saints and Muslim fakirs.
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‘You're the only one, sahib,’ he called out as I headed in.
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One day, thieves broke into the house while the memsahib was enjoying her drunken siesta and stole her very valuable sapphire ring.
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