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Updated: September 27, 2025
The abatement of sixpence in the price of admission to the pit, and the dismissal of an unfortunate servant, whose only fault was too much zeal in the service of his employers, such were the grand victories of the O. P.'s. THE THUGS, or PHANSIGARS. Orribili favelle parole di dolor.
Although the stranglers are termed Phansigars, from phansee, a noose of cord, yet in practice they scarcely ever use a cord, which if it were found upon them would at once betray and convict them; they employ instead, to effect their murderous purpose, the roomal, a strip of cloth which appears innocent and harmless enough it might be a turban or a waist cloth but which in their expert and practised hands is equally effectual.
"'If once, he said, 'Phansigars, abandoning their immemorial traditions, took to killing women, or disregarding omens, what good luck could they expect, or how could they escape capture and destruction?
"A cloth was spread upon a clean spot of ground. Upon this cloth was placed the consecrated pickaxe and a piece of silver as an offering to the goddess. On the cloth Jowahir took his place, and seated with him also on the cloth were seven Phansigars or stranglers, no Ghumgeea, or any member of the gang of a grade inferior to an actual and experienced strangler, being admitted to sit on the cloth.
Get on a cow ranch there, and the Pharisees " "Phansigars," corrected the General. "Oh, yes; the fancy guys would run up against a long horn every time they made a break." General Ludlow closed the diamond case and thrust it into his bosom. "The spies of the tribe have found me out in New York," he said, straightening his tall figure.
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