Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... faces and tottering forms of those adventurous sportsmen who , considering the skin of a tiger to be cheaply purchased at the price of a ruined constitution , have dared to beard the cruel monarch in this his securest stronghold , and ...
... faces and tottering forms of those adventurous sportsmen who , considering the skin of a tiger to be cheaply purchased at the price of a ruined constitution , have dared to beard the cruel monarch in this his securest stronghold , and ...
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... months and a half , shall to - morrow be at an end ; and you begin to look more kindly on the old ship now you are going to leave her ; and the tanned and DIAMOND HARBOUR . 15 weather - beaten faces of the 14 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
... months and a half , shall to - morrow be at an end ; and you begin to look more kindly on the old ship now you are going to leave her ; and the tanned and DIAMOND HARBOUR . 15 weather - beaten faces of the 14 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
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... faces of the tarry , dirty , hard - work- ing sailors , assume a more friendly aspect ; while you find that you have imperceptibly contracted friendships , the strength of which you were igno- rant of until it comes to the time for ...
... faces of the tarry , dirty , hard - work- ing sailors , assume a more friendly aspect ; while you find that you have imperceptibly contracted friendships , the strength of which you were igno- rant of until it comes to the time for ...
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... face , until at last a lusty " God save the Queen , " in which the " whole strength of the company " ( as the play - bills have it ) took part , almost shakes the old ship's timbers , and - by Heavens ! they do shake ( can it be with ...
... face , until at last a lusty " God save the Queen , " in which the " whole strength of the company " ( as the play - bills have it ) took part , almost shakes the old ship's timbers , and - by Heavens ! they do shake ( can it be with ...
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... faces will no longer be shaded from the sun's burnished rays , nor their " sweetness wasted " —as it now is— " upon the desert air ; " prickly pears , too , hug in a close embrace the scarce less prickly brier , and many another plant ...
... faces will no longer be shaded from the sun's burnished rays , nor their " sweetness wasted " —as it now is— " upon the desert air ; " prickly pears , too , hug in a close embrace the scarce less prickly brier , and many another plant ...
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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.