lascar

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, back in England, she began doing good, establishing housing for lascars, Indian sailors who were often maltreated.

From Los Angeles Times

He is pathologically cruel, a strategist commanding obedience – to the death – from the many dacoits, lascars and devastatingly beautiful women in his retinue.

From Forbes

Each lascar has a smooth flat stick like a ruler, and as he deposits his mail-bag on a long bench over the hold, he gives up his stick to a man standing by.

From Project Gutenberg

This is specially marked in the strange dialect of the Kathiawar boatmen who travel all over the world as lascars on the great steamships.

From Project Gutenberg

The man, seeing that a sahib was in the boat but not recognizing who he was, gave the word to the lascars manning the falls, and the boat was lowered rapidly and evenly.

From Project Gutenberg