serai

Example Sentences

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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

And next day, in the serai where he had put up in Peshawar, Ahmed learnt from Sherdil that his name stood thirty-second on the list of candidates for the Guides.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

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

He went back to the serai and dismissed the coolie.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

We ruined ourselves in Paris—that’s partly accountable for mamma’s solemnity—mais au moins je serai belle! 

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry