moonshees

We accordingly hired two moonshees to assist us in it, and each of us took our share; Brother Marshman took Matthew and Luke; Brother Ward, Mark and John; and myself the remaining part of the New Testament into

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

But all these advantages, his own genius for languages, his unconquerable plodding directed by a divine motive, his colleagues 'co-operation, the encouragement of learned societies and the public, and the number of pundits and moonshees increased by the College of

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

He was the centre of the learned natives whom it attracted, as pundits and moonshees, as inquirers and visitors.

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

The mollahs and moonshees and treasurers took jewels for the

A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

The garden was prettily laid out with shrubs and tall trees, with a raised platform in the centre; and on one side was a whole colony, consisting not only of the usual number of servants allowed to a military chaplain, but of a host of pundits, moonshees, schoolmasters, and poor nominal

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Oriental rhetoric, penned at ease by dirty hireling moonshees at

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763