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... nature has meanly armed . Quick and intrepid in 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 ...
... nature has meanly armed . Quick and intrepid in 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 ...
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... nature . There was a good deal of gasconading before the battle joined — if ever that junction came about : there was much shouting of " Kali mah ki jai , " much brandishing of staves and waving of buck- lers , but the shock of battle ...
... nature . There was a good deal of gasconading before the battle joined — if ever that junction came about : there was much shouting of " Kali mah ki jai , " much brandishing of staves and waving of buck- lers , but the shock of battle ...
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... nature , notwithstanding that he was Bengali by birth and breeding . Not for him were the effeminate ways of the Bengali , who loathes all exercise more fatiguing than that he occasionally takes in a palanquin , and who would go to some ...
... nature , notwithstanding that he was Bengali by birth and breeding . Not for him were the effeminate ways of the Bengali , who loathes all exercise more fatiguing than that he occasionally takes in a palanquin , and who would go to some ...
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... nature to fit in with inaction , however masterly . Where good work was to be done his policy was a forward one , as when , in 1867 , he wrote to the Friend of India ' suggesting that a subscription should be raised for the equipment of ...
... nature to fit in with inaction , however masterly . Where good work was to be done his policy was a forward one , as when , in 1867 , he wrote to the Friend of India ' suggesting that a subscription should be raised for the equipment of ...
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... nature laid it on by springs and streams . In a central spot of each Santhal village was the modest Parliament House in which the elders assembled for the discussion of public affairs and adjudication of local squabbles : there were ...
... nature laid it on by springs and streams . In a central spot of each Santhal village was the modest Parliament House in which the elders assembled for the discussion of public affairs and adjudication of local squabbles : there were ...
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