Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... light and pliable as leather , to carry them safely over the foaming waves that come rolling in across the Bay of Bengal , and in which no English boat could live when the swell runs high . * Natives in dresses forcibly reminding one of ...
... light and pliable as leather , to carry them safely over the foaming waves that come rolling in across the Bay of Bengal , and in which no English boat could live when the swell runs high . * Natives in dresses forcibly reminding one of ...
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... light over the picture which this poor pen has feebly attempted to depict ; so , before the fiery orb quite disappears behind that belt of palm trees in the red - blushing distance of the West , let us turn from this parti - coloured ...
... light over the picture which this poor pen has feebly attempted to depict ; so , before the fiery orb quite disappears behind that belt of palm trees in the red - blushing distance of the West , let us turn from this parti - coloured ...
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... lights upon this passage ! How distinctly do I hear the sneering remark which disposes of it as the " Aw -confound the fellow ! -impertinent ignorance of a ' griff ' - aw . " Now do , like a dear , good , old , yellow - faced gentleman ...
... lights upon this passage ! How distinctly do I hear the sneering remark which disposes of it as the " Aw -confound the fellow ! -impertinent ignorance of a ' griff ' - aw . " Now do , like a dear , good , old , yellow - faced gentleman ...
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... with what naïveté he has held it up to the light , as though to observe whether or not it was transparent ; with what painful incredulity he has bitten it , as though to test the purity of the metal ; and , last , but not least E 2.
... with what naïveté he has held it up to the light , as though to observe whether or not it was transparent ; with what painful incredulity he has bitten it , as though to test the purity of the metal ; and , last , but not least E 2.
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... light , and the sense of oppression which has weighed heavily upon us is at last replaced by one of calm enjoyment . There are very many subjects connected with Calcutta on which I would .willingly touch , were it not that I am fearful ...
... light , and the sense of oppression which has weighed heavily upon us is at last replaced by one of calm enjoyment . There are very many subjects connected with Calcutta on which I would .willingly touch , were it not that I am fearful ...
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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.