moonshee
Americannoun
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I had a moonshee, or accountant, in one of my outworks in Purneah.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James
Townsend used to say of the moonshee, "If there is a heaven, that old man is there."
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
The moonshee had been named as a witness to prove the writing of some papers filed in the suit.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James
I have picked them up by talking to the natives, and partly from the moonshee I have had, for four years.
From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Paget, Walter
If you pierce the breast of Gunga Govind Sing, you are again stopped; a Persian moonshee was the confidential agent.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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