serai

Example Sentences

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No doubt most of them would be younger sons or elder sons who had not yet succeeded, but ... "j'y serai," murmured Dorothy.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

The serai cleared, the cheering infantry formed up on the left, and with irresistible dash fell on the rebels as they fled toward the canal bridge in mad haste to save their guns.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

Palace and mosque and garden and serai, Bazaars and baths and spacious pleasure grounds, By favor of Allah to perfection sprang.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

I'll take a room at a native serai in Bombay—for atmosphere—and meet you at the station.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

Her words, so simply and directly spoken, caught at Archie's imagination—"Hélas! je ne serai plus fille!"

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)