serai

Example Sentences

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J'y serai underneath a bugle-horn: how well it would look on her note-paper.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

Yakoob Beg had even detailed off to take care of the serai and its occupants a large number of the old Khitay, or Yangy Mussulmans, who were generally employed throughout the city as domestic servants.

From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles

It is simply, excellent one, that while I am absent fighting the English, thou wilt set a guard over the little serai where we dwell.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

"J'y serai?" cried Dorothy, mustering all her family pride to keep back her tears.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

Her words, so simply and directly spoken, caught at Archie's imagination—"Hélas! je ne serai plus fille!"

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)