lascar
Example Sentences
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While writing Sea of Poppies, he scoured old dictionaries and almanacs and filled the novel with dizzying dialogues incorporating bastardized Hindustani and lascar words that he claims entered common English parlance in the 19th century.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lead confirmed his words; the depth of water increased at every cast, and the soul of excitement departed suddenly from the lascar swung in the canvas belt over the Sofala's side.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
But a yelling spirit of excitement, like some frantic soul wandering unsuspected in the vast stillness of the coast, had seized upon the body of the lascar at the lead.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
A minute or two later the lascar in the after part of the boat was unobtrusively examining the scrap of paper.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
Shortly after von Horn became separated from Virginia he collided with the fleeing lascar who had escaped the parangs of Muda Saffir's head hunters at the same time as had Bududreen.
From The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
