Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... on his hands ; or if they should serve to recal to such of my comrades as may take the trouble to read them some of the scenes mentioned herein , the fatigues or the pleasures of which we shared together , and induce them.
... on his hands ; or if they should serve to recal to such of my comrades as may take the trouble to read them some of the scenes mentioned herein , the fatigues or the pleasures of which we shared together , and induce them.
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... hand that wrote it . It was hard to believe , and harder still to realize , the dreadful indignities and sufferings to which tender women and innocent children had been exposed . It was a dreary , dreary task that waiting for the next ...
... hand that wrote it . It was hard to believe , and harder still to realize , the dreadful indignities and sufferings to which tender women and innocent children had been exposed . It was a dreary , dreary task that waiting for the next ...
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... hand in the reeking triumph of its treachery , and to revenge , as all hearts prompted , the base indignities and savage ill - treatment of our murdered country- women and children . Reader , it was with this avenging stream that I left ...
... hand in the reeking triumph of its treachery , and to revenge , as all hearts prompted , the base indignities and savage ill - treatment of our murdered country- women and children . Reader , it was with this avenging stream that I left ...
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... hand and eye of one of the numerous pilots in the service of the Hon . East India Company , and cheered on our way by traditions redolent of shipwreck and disaster connected with those hidden shoals and sneaking banks which we are ...
... hand and eye of one of the numerous pilots in the service of the Hon . East India Company , and cheered on our way by traditions redolent of shipwreck and disaster connected with those hidden shoals and sneaking banks which we are ...
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... in , yer won't give a poor woman time to get a bit of a quid into ' er mouth , " & c . & c . & c . Never mind , keep it up ! hands across , and down the LAST NIGHT AT SEA . 17 middle one more round 16 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
... in , yer won't give a poor woman time to get a bit of a quid into ' er mouth , " & c . & c . & c . Never mind , keep it up ! hands across , and down the LAST NIGHT AT SEA . 17 middle one more round 16 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
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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.