As the sirdar in Egypt he had been used to giving fair words to native chiefs.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
He drew another sirdar from his case and sat staring at the rain-smeared night, twisting the frail fragrant cigarette to bits between his fingers.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
My sirdar, Nimbo, himself a native of Bhotan, saw a good deal of the embassy when there, and told me many particulars as to the treatment to which it had been subjected, and the consequent low estimation in which both the ambassadors themselves and the Government whom they represented were held in Bhotan.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker