Thirty Years of ShikarW. Blackwood & Sons, 1895 - 373 páginas |
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... CHARGE TURNED THE TIDE OF BATTLE " 39 " SWAM TO THE HORSE'S HEAD , AND TRIED TO GUIDE THE PANIC - STRICKEN CREATURE " 73 333 66 ONE OF THE CAVALRY CHARGED HOME 106 66 NEVER DID THE BREAKING OF AN INDIAN DAY SEEM SO TARDY " 154 " IN AN ...
... CHARGE TURNED THE TIDE OF BATTLE " 39 " SWAM TO THE HORSE'S HEAD , AND TRIED TO GUIDE THE PANIC - STRICKEN CREATURE " 73 333 66 ONE OF THE CAVALRY CHARGED HOME 106 66 NEVER DID THE BREAKING OF AN INDIAN DAY SEEM SO TARDY " 154 " IN AN ...
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... 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 are given to ...
... 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 are given to ...
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... 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 rage may be ...
... 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 rage may be ...
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... charge , as I galloped up , and , as became me in the circumstances , I pressed my horse on at its topmost speed to meet the charge . But we met not in the shock of battle , as I had devised ; there was no shattering of spears to the ...
... charge , as I galloped up , and , as became me in the circumstances , I pressed my horse on at its topmost speed to meet the charge . But we met not in the shock of battle , as I had devised ; there was no shattering of spears to the ...
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... charge itself ; some of the shot knocked off the peak of my wide - brimmed sola topee , and that was the sum total of the damage done on that occasion . But not long after that , while I was shooting snipe in a Howrah jheel , and when ...
... charge itself ; some of the shot knocked off the peak of my wide - brimmed sola topee , and that was the sum total of the damage done on that occasion . But not long after that , while I was shooting snipe in a Howrah jheel , and when ...
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