Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... minds of the soldiers , for they exhibited an unjust , though somewhat natural desire to throw every nigger as he came on board over the vessel's side , while a John Bullish longing on the part of muscular individuals to measure their ...
... minds of the soldiers , for they exhibited an unjust , though somewhat natural desire to throw every nigger as he came on board over the vessel's side , while a John Bullish longing on the part of muscular individuals to measure their ...
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... a ' urry you're 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 .
... a ' urry you're 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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... mind what it means ; but they have nice gold - lace caps , and " staff peaks , " and faultless coats , and well - cut trousers , and altogether look so smart and spruce that it really is a pleasure to see them even when they are doing ...
... mind what it means ; but they have nice gold - lace caps , and " staff peaks , " and faultless coats , and well - cut trousers , and altogether look so smart and spruce that it really is a pleasure to see them even when they are doing ...
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... mind temporarily wandered , and a wild hallucina- tion predominated , that , in the absence of any in- timate acquaintance with the Hindostanee tongue , maybe I might employ French with a molli- fying effect , with which language I ...
... mind temporarily wandered , and a wild hallucina- tion predominated , that , in the absence of any in- timate acquaintance with the Hindostanee tongue , maybe I might employ French with a molli- fying effect , with which language I ...
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... minds had thrown a loose rein upon the necks of their imagination , and in the execution of which the edges of a thousand pairs of skilful shears had grown blunt and dull - who had coats which knew not a wrinkle , and waistcoats which ...
... minds had thrown a loose rein upon the necks of their imagination , and in the execution of which the edges of a thousand pairs of skilful shears had grown blunt and dull - who had coats which knew not a wrinkle , and waistcoats which ...
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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.