Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... English men and English women , on whom , as they held those few square yards in Lucknow against all rebel Oude , oppos- ing with calm heroism the desperate attacks of VOYAGE OUT . 7 fanatics or the wily devices of 6 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
... English men and English women , on whom , as they held those few square yards in Lucknow against all rebel Oude , oppos- ing with calm heroism the desperate attacks of VOYAGE OUT . 7 fanatics or the wily devices of 6 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
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... English boat could live when the swell runs high . * Natives in dresses forcibly reminding one of night - shirts by their scantiness and simplicity , and others in no dresses at all , flock on board . What they all want Heaven knows ...
... English boat could live when the swell runs high . * Natives in dresses forcibly reminding one of night - shirts by their scantiness and simplicity , and others in no dresses at all , flock on board . What they all want Heaven knows ...
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... English faces peep from the windows , ayahs ( native nurses ) carrying English children stroll about the beautiful gardens which stretch down to the water's edge , and so rapid has been the transition from barbarous wilds to civilized ...
... English faces peep from the windows , ayahs ( native nurses ) carrying English children stroll about the beautiful gardens which stretch down to the water's edge , and so rapid has been the transition from barbarous wilds to civilized ...
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... English soldiers , on sentry , pace up and down its vast ramparts . The noise and confusion aboard have been gra- dually working themselves up to the culminating point of discord , which they have now attained ; your legs become ...
... English soldiers , on sentry , pace up and down its vast ramparts . The noise and confusion aboard have been gra- dually working themselves up to the culminating point of discord , which they have now attained ; your legs become ...
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... and many - coloured toilettes of England's charming daughters ; the séduisante Parisian bonnet coquettishly flirts about among the more head - protecting turbans ; here and there the English hat proudly displays its black and funnel -
... and many - coloured toilettes of England's charming daughters ; the séduisante Parisian bonnet coquettishly flirts about among the more head - protecting turbans ; here and there the English hat proudly displays its black and funnel -
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Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India Sir Vivian Dering Majendie Visualização integral - 1859 |
Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India Sir Vivian Dering Majendie Visualização integral - 1859 |
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1st Bengal Fusiliers Allahabad appearance arrived baggage Bagh bank Bareilly beautiful behold Bheesties body bright bullets bullocks Calcutta camels camp capture case-shot cavalry Cawnpore CHAPTER cheroot cloth extra cloth gilt cloth lettered column dark Delhi doolies dust Edition elephants endeavour enemy English excitement eyes fact fcap 8vo feeling fight fire force Fyzabad Goomtee Grand Trunk Road guns hands heat Hindoo History horse artillery India infantry Iron Bridge Kaiserbagh legs look Lucknow Maun Singh miles minarets morning mutiny Nana Sahib native Nawab-gunge night officers once one's Oude Outram palace palanquin Pandy pariah dogs passed picket pleasant Portrait post 8vo rain reader regiment Rifle river round Royal Artillery Royal Welsh Fusiliers scene Sepoys shot side siege Sikhs Sir Colin soldiers sort streets syces tents trees troops tulwar village walls weary whole wretched
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Página 247 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 273 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, and banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady...
Página 149 - SKETCHES IN INDIA, TAKEN ON THE SPOT. PART VI. AND so the big guns were booming hoarsely, and rifles, matchlocks, muskets, and small-arms were popping briskly, and the bullets pinged with a soft but unpleasant sibilation before the fair city of Lucknow on the fourth day of March, in the year of Grace one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. And now the time was come, as Sir Colin Campbell worded it in his despatch, " for developing the plan of attack which had previously been determined on," the...
Página 194 - Oude villager, it mattered not — no questions were asked; his skin was black, and did not that suffice? A piece of rope, and the branch of a tree, or a rifle bullet through his brain, soon terminated the poor devil's existence.