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Although he was a skilled man he had been put to work driving an internal gharri around the base on trivial errands but now he was called in to stand by a machine that was honing the bores of cylinder blocks and he was doing just that when the top brass came by. The machine had been previously set up. "And what's going on here?" asked top brass. "Honing cylinder bores Sir".
Yasmini waited at the stair head until she heard them pull him into a gharri and drive away. Then she turned to her favorite maid. "Them those cattle I understand!" she said. "But it does not suit me that a Sikh, a Jat, a buffalo, should come here making mysteries of his own without consulting me! And what does not suit me I do not tolerate!
The verbal precis of the only witness, given from memory, about a man who galloped away on horseback, threw no light at all on the case; so, because he could think of nothing better to do at the moment, the risaldar-major sent for a tikka- gharri and drove down to the morgue to identify the body.
Johnny Lockett was not very popular with his superiors after that and I believe he went back to driving the internal gharri. I think it was about July or August 1945 that I was transferred to Egypt, anyway while we were in transit we read that the Americans had dropped a super bomb on Japan and the consensus among us was, "There they go, bragging again," and we put it out of our minds.
We are not here to learn the Indian languages, and we can take our choice; and we can talk 'good old United States, in speaking of things," suggested Louis. "There! what will you call that vehicle, Miss Blanche?" "That is called a gharri" interposed Sir Modava, who was within hearing. The vehicle was such as none of the Americans had ever seen.
From the fort we drive in a native gharri to the Taj, a mile-drive through suburban scenery, plantain-gardens, groves, and ruins. In approaching the garden of the Taj, one passes through a bazaar, where the skilful Hindoo artisans are busy making beautiful inlaid tables, inkstands, plates, and similar fancies, as well as models of the Taj, out of white Jeypore marble.
She had the reputation of being very wealthy, and her old khansamah I know had also done himself very well, as when he retired he set up as a ticca gharri proprietor just at the junction of Camac Street and Theatre Road, and was one of the first to introduce into Calcutta the "Fitton" gharri.
A sudden freshet in the ordinarily shallow and partially dry bed of the Donglee River tells of the heaviness of last night's rainstorm among the hills, and compels a halt of a couple of hours until the rapidly subsiding water gets low enough to admit of fording it with a native bullock gharri.
"Shall we all have a lide in loo ghalli?" little Fay asked it seemed to her sheer waste of time to stand arguing in the road when a good car was waiting empty. The children called every form of conveyance a "gharri." "We shall meet again," said this persistent man. "You can't put me off like this." He raised his voice, for he was angry, and its clear tones carried far down the quiet road.
"Is it worth while for such a little way?" "Get in," Peter said again, and Jan meekly got in. "I was just coming to see you, and I could have taken you anywhere you wanted to go, if only you'd waited. Why didn't you take a gharri?" "Since you must know," Jan said, smiling at the angry Peter, "I went out because I wanted to go out. And I walked because I wanted to walk."
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