A member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan.
1 But a Pathan is always touchy about matters of honour and horseflesh.
2 He had to ride up close before he recognized the Orakzai Pathan .
3 Yea, he was true Pathan then, and I loved him the more.
4 He was all Pathan then, Sahib, and handling his enemy right subtly.
5 The Sikh drinks what he will; the Pathan is an abstainer.
6 But the Pathan led the priest to the door and thrust him out.
7 Now she is a Muslim lady, probably a Pathan , at home in Pakistan.
8 The Orakzai Pathan crouched among the women, and the women grinned.
9 The Pathan drew himself up with all the haughty pride of his race.
10 The Pathan thumped him on the back so hard that his eyes watered.
11 The Sikh is burnt after death; the Pathan would be thus deprived of Paradise.
12 The Sikh wears his hair down to his waist; the Pathan shaves his head.
13 The Pathan laughed and came back to gather him like a sheaf of corn.
14 The Pathan spurned them with his heel as he passed.
15 Even the Pathan expects that which he can not understand.
16 Ralston's Pathan was even then waiting for Linforth at the bottom of the tower.
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