Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... ( continued ) -Nawabgunge - Busserat- gunge - Bunterah - An Alarm- " Stand to your arms ” — The Dilkoosha - The First Glimpse of Lucknow , pp . 140-150 CHAPTER XIV . Commencement of the Siege of Lucknow - Night March of the Trans ...
... ( continued ) -Nawabgunge - Busserat- gunge - Bunterah - An Alarm- " Stand to your arms ” — The Dilkoosha - The First Glimpse of Lucknow , pp . 140-150 CHAPTER XIV . Commencement of the Siege of Lucknow - Night March of the Trans ...
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... continued our breakfast , and thought but little of the matter . Another mail , another mutiny ! Mail succeeded mail , and still the weary burden was the same , until we awoke with a start from our dream of fancied security , examined ...
... continued our breakfast , and thought but little of the matter . Another mail , another mutiny ! Mail succeeded mail , and still the weary burden was the same , until we awoke with a start from our dream of fancied security , examined ...
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... continued ; nor can one ever forget the sensation of relief with which one read day after day how regiment after regiment left her shores , and with what delight one hailed each announcement of fresh departures —a long stream B 2.
... continued ; nor can one ever forget the sensation of relief with which one read day after day how regiment after regiment left her shores , and with what delight one hailed each announcement of fresh departures —a long stream B 2.
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... continued , with but little to break its weary monotony , until our arrival at the Cape , when we heard , and some anxious hearts were soothed and comforted by the news , that Havelock's force had effected a junction with that small ...
... continued , with but little to break its weary monotony , until our arrival at the Cape , when we heard , and some anxious hearts were soothed and comforted by the news , that Havelock's force had effected a junction with that small ...
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... continued during my residence in the country - a feeling of respect and admiration came over me for the master - minds of those baboos and functionaries who had extricated these welcome little docu- ments from confusion worse confounded ...
... continued during my residence in the country - a feeling of respect and admiration came over me for the master - minds of those baboos and functionaries who had extricated these welcome little docu- ments from confusion worse confounded ...
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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.