Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 42
Página 4
... hundred men ; sup- pose that the white handkerchiefs on the pier have waved their last adieux , and are now wiping the tears from glistening eyes ; suppose that throbbing hearts ashore , ay , and aboard too , are beating quick and ...
... hundred men ; sup- pose that the white handkerchiefs on the pier have waved their last adieux , and are now wiping the tears from glistening eyes ; suppose that throbbing hearts ashore , ay , and aboard too , are beating quick and ...
Página 12
... hundred mouths of the celebrated Ganges ; and as we watch the banks narrowing and closing in on either side , as the landscape assumes less MOUTHS OF THE GANGES . 13 66 the appearance of 12 UP AMONG THE PANDIES . CHAPTER II The ...
... hundred mouths of the celebrated Ganges ; and as we watch the banks narrowing and closing in on either side , as the landscape assumes less MOUTHS OF THE GANGES . 13 66 the appearance of 12 UP AMONG THE PANDIES . CHAPTER II The ...
Página 14
... hundred days had it been dragging its weary length along . One hundred days at sea ! -an age ! a lifetime ! and yet , long and dreary as this time may have been , there is a peculiar feel- ing , almost that of parting with an old friend ...
... hundred days had it been dragging its weary length along . One hundred days at sea ! -an age ! a lifetime ! and yet , long and dreary as this time may have been , there is a peculiar feel- ing , almost that of parting with an old friend ...
Página 15
... hundred days he has borne with your landsman's infirmities , and how " many a time and oft " he has witnessed you ruthlessly disturbing those neatly rolled coils of rope , or cruelly sullying the - would - be - unspotted white- ness of ...
... hundred days he has borne with your landsman's infirmities , and how " many a time and oft " he has witnessed you ruthlessly disturbing those neatly rolled coils of rope , or cruelly sullying the - would - be - unspotted white- ness of ...
Página 23
... hundreds upon hundreds of vessels become visible , and , at last , behold Calcutta ! At first a mass of magnificent buildings , half hidden , in the most tantalizing manner , by the shipping , then becoming more confused in its grandeur ...
... hundreds upon hundreds of vessels become visible , and , at last , behold Calcutta ! At first a mass of magnificent buildings , half hidden , in the most tantalizing manner , by the shipping , then becoming more confused in its grandeur ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.