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By the irony of fate, the occupant of another dhoolie, which was presently placed by his, turned out to be his brother Charles, whose arm had been shattered.
John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub R. E. Cholmeley
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Nicholson in a dhoolie by the roadside just within the Cashmere Gate.
John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub R. E. Cholmeley
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From what I have been able to learn, both the Indian dhoolie-bearers and the hastily recruited Colonial bearer companies were most successful in the removal of the large number of wounded men from the field of Colenso.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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In a covered dhoolie Wilmshurst was sent down to a hospital base-camp.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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Meeting a covered dhoolie, I asked the bearers who was in it.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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On the 9th I could not stand, and the bearers, with their peculiar little chant, to keep them out of step, brought me down to the Congregational Chapel in a dhoolie.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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Unhappily the general was ill in bed with slight fever, and had to be carried to another house up the hill in a dhoolie.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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He says he was knocked silly, and felt a bit fluttered, but had no pain till they lifted him into the dhoolie.
Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900
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At the station of the Bearer company he dismounted, and was carried to the dressing station in a dhoolie.
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government Great Britain. War Office 1876
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_ -- Notwithstanding Sir George White's protest, Boer guns are still laid to bear on the Town Hall, and shells frequently fall in the enclosure near it, and have hit the building, sending splinters in all directions, by one of which a dhoolie-bearer was killed.
chained_bear commented on the word dhoolie
"After an uncomfortable journey by dhoolie (a rather humbler kind of litter than a palanquin) into which the monsoon rains had poured she arrived in Dalhousie to find that there were not quarters available."
—Annabel Venning, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005), 71
May 5, 2010