chilianwallah

Updated: May 8, 2025

But various incidents in the story the quarrel at the mess-table, the horse-whipping, the court martial, the death of Vernon, and the meeting between Oakfield and Stafford, the villain of the piece, after Chilianwallah are told with force, and might have led on, had the writer lived, to something more detached and mature in the way of novel-writing.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1

'Merit! We did not consider it merit in those days. My people, my friends, my brothers fell from me. They said: "The time of the English is accomplished. Let each strike out a little holding for himself." But I had talked with the men of Sobraon, of Chilianwallah, of Moodkee and Ferozeshah. I said: "Abide a little and the wind turns. There is no blessing in this work."

Rudyard Kipling - Kim