Lexicographical Neighbors of Bhistees
Literary usage of Bhistees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Records: With a Commercial View of the Relations Between the British (1870)
"... by the two bhistees, who brought water to wash the body, and whose evidence,
... the two bhistees, and the apprentice who attended them, that is, ..."
2. Life of Sir Henry Lawrence by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale (1872)
"... slung with belts, a number of tin or brass pots which were filled with water.
The usual number of bhistees (water-carriers) were also in attendance. ..."
3. The Afghan War of 1879-80 by HOWARD. HENSMAN (1881)
"... blind beggars and shrill-voiced fakirs obtrude their wants upon the stranger;
bhistees clank their metal drinking vessels, or pour out a cool draught ..."
4. Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India by Vivian Dering Majendie (1859)
"Here, then, is the 'nucleus, and an extensive one it is, of the force of
camp-followers; in addition to this is the large staff of cooks, " bhistees," ..."
5. Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams: Being a Practical Treatise on by William Lumisden Strange (1913)
"Arrangements should be made for water to be cheaply available at all parts of
the work by means of pipes, pumps and hose, cisterns, bhistees, etc. ..."
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