Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... cause us to mistake trees and bushes on shore ( diminished as they appeared by distance ) for these dreaded beasts taking a constitutional previous to swimming off to obtain their wonted meal , or to imagine that large logs of wood ...
... cause us to mistake trees and bushes on shore ( diminished as they appeared by distance ) for these dreaded beasts taking a constitutional previous to swimming off to obtain their wonted meal , or to imagine that large logs of wood ...
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... cause ; mates , stewards , carpenters , all suffering equally from heat and emotion , danced wildly , as though their very lives were at stake , the only disputes that arise being those cousequent on some slight difficulty in discerning ...
... cause ; mates , stewards , carpenters , all suffering equally from heat and emotion , danced wildly , as though their very lives were at stake , the only disputes that arise being those cousequent on some slight difficulty in discerning ...
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... causing many a pair of horny hands which had long been estranged to clasp in friendly unity , and many a pair of muscular arms to entwine amicably with one another , as the entente cordiale which some slight circumstance had disturbed ...
... causing many a pair of horny hands which had long been estranged to clasp in friendly unity , and many a pair of muscular arms to entwine amicably with one another , as the entente cordiale which some slight circumstance had disturbed ...
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... causes to flow - watch these , and you will see more of human nature , and learn more of human hearts , in this one passing moment , than in long years of study and observation amid the cold formalities of society , when so many a ...
... causes to flow - watch these , and you will see more of human nature , and learn more of human hearts , in this one passing moment , than in long years of study and observation amid the cold formalities of society , when so many a ...
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... causing expressions more pithy than parliamentary to issue from our lips . In vain one grew angry , in vain one implored , in vain one stamped , and pushed , and fought ; like bees gathering at the mouth of the hive , did these human ...
... causing expressions more pithy than parliamentary to issue from our lips . In vain one grew angry , in vain one implored , in vain one stamped , and pushed , and fought ; like bees gathering at the mouth of the hive , did these human ...
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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.