The officers rearranged their chairs in a circle while the sirdar, a bearded man in a white lace skullcap, started serving them. |
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There was the sirdar, or chief porter, our cook and his assistant, and then the troop of basic carriers and luggers. |
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He went as sirdar of the British Everest expedition of 1953 and formed the second summit pair with Hillary. |
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In 1892 General Horatio Kitchener was appointed sirdar of the Egyptian army. |
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Then in 1963 Uncle Tenzing wrote to James Ramsay Ullman, the author commissioned to cover the first American Everest expedition, recommending Gombu as sirdar. |
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The shop stocks Sirdar yarns plus wool, patterns, books, knitting needles, sewing needles, thread, buttons and small haberdashery items. |
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A Sirdar was a rank assigned to the British commander in chief of the Egyptian Army during the 19th century when the British controlled Egypt. |
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The delegation was led by Chairman Lower Bari Dowab Canal Area Water Board Sirdar Tipu Usman. |
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The most significant of these attacks was the murder in November 1924 of Sir Lee Stack, Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. |
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Sirdar jam and a number of officials on a two-day official visit to Sudan. |
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