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... ATTACKED THE TIGRESS WITH A STICK AND BEAT IT OFF " " I SIGHTED A BLACK - BUCK AT A DISTANCE " . 236 265 61 HAVING CLUTCHED THE PUNKAH ROPE WITH HIS TOE , HE GOES TO SLEEP 275 THE NAUTCH - THE IDEAL AND THE REAL 322 66 THE RABBIT HAS ...
... ATTACKED THE TIGRESS WITH A STICK AND BEAT IT OFF " " I SIGHTED A BLACK - BUCK AT A DISTANCE " . 236 265 61 HAVING CLUTCHED THE PUNKAH ROPE WITH HIS TOE , HE GOES TO SLEEP 275 THE NAUTCH - THE IDEAL AND THE REAL 322 66 THE RABBIT HAS ...
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... attack , and charges again and again , until , with a dozen spear - wounds in his sides , his life gives out . Splendid is the race for the first spear when the boar flies , and quick is the race when the gallant beast is young : cups ...
... attack , and charges again and again , until , with a dozen spear - wounds in his sides , his life gives out . Splendid is the race for the first spear when the boar flies , and quick is the race when the gallant beast is young : cups ...
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... attack , each charge it makes home to its object may leave a wound in horse or rider ; and it is like an Englishman in that it does not know when it is beaten . When spear - thrust after spear - thrust has drunk its life's blood , its ...
... attack , each charge it makes home to its object may leave a wound in horse or rider ; and it is like an Englishman in that it does not know when it is beaten . When spear - thrust after spear - thrust has drunk its life's blood , its ...
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... attacked me- they were in front ; behind me was the river- bank some twenty feet in height , and almost precipitous ... attacking force were about to withdraw when the police arrived . The appearance of the guardians of the law hurried ...
... attacked me- they were in front ; behind me was the river- bank some twenty feet in height , and almost precipitous ... attacking force were about to withdraw when the police arrived . The appearance of the guardians of the law hurried ...
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... attack ; too much absolute inaction , —thus would the athlete of Cornwall or Cumberland cri- ticise his fellow - practitioner of Hindostan . But the initiated sees and appreciates the skill that is being exercised even when the two ...
... attack ; too much absolute inaction , —thus would the athlete of Cornwall or Cumberland cri- ticise his fellow - practitioner of Hindostan . But the initiated sees and appreciates the skill that is being exercised even when the two ...
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