Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... Beautiful Ceylon ! with your tropical scenery and rich and varied vegetation , almost realizing a dream of fairy - land , and justifying the enthusiasm of that traveller whose fancy tempted him to fix on you as the Garden of Eden of old ...
... Beautiful Ceylon ! with your tropical scenery and rich and varied vegetation , almost realizing a dream of fairy - land , and justifying the enthusiasm of that traveller whose fancy tempted him to fix on you as the Garden of Eden of old ...
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... beautiful gardens which stretch down to the water's edge , and so rapid has been the transition from barbarous wilds to civilized scenes , that one can hardly credit that the eye , which now runs over the fair proportions of these villa ...
... beautiful gardens which stretch down to the water's edge , and so rapid has been the transition from barbarous wilds to civilized scenes , that one can hardly credit that the eye , which now runs over the fair proportions of these villa ...
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... beautiful clipper ships , huge merchantmen , still larger transports , noble Peninsular and Oriental steamers , and stately men - of - war , which compose the vast and motley fleet ; still steaming on , at the lowest possible speed ...
... beautiful clipper ships , huge merchantmen , still larger transports , noble Peninsular and Oriental steamers , and stately men - of - war , which compose the vast and motley fleet ; still steaming on , at the lowest possible speed ...
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... beautiful and flourishing city , situated on the left bank of the Hooghly , is the capital of Bengal Proper , and the seat of British Government in India ; contains three or four Protestant churches , a cathedral , a Scotch , Portuguese ...
... beautiful and flourishing city , situated on the left bank of the Hooghly , is the capital of Bengal Proper , and the seat of British Government in India ; contains three or four Protestant churches , a cathedral , a Scotch , Portuguese ...
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... beautiful buildings in the neighbour- hood of Government House , with the vast pro- portions and high dome of that palace itself , break upon our view ; the Chowringhee , gay and glit- tering as ever , spreads out before us , and we are ...
... beautiful buildings in the neighbour- hood of Government House , with the vast pro- portions and high dome of that palace itself , break upon our view ; the Chowringhee , gay and glit- tering as ever , spreads out before us , and we are ...
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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.