Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... shot at porpoises , and ate , and drank , and slept a great deal , and examined the compass and the chart very atten- tively , and looked over the vessel's side at the glittering waves , and up aloft at the tapering masts , and yawned ...
... shot at porpoises , and ate , and drank , and slept a great deal , and examined the compass and the chart very atten- tively , and looked over the vessel's side at the glittering waves , and up aloft at the tapering masts , and yawned ...
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... shot , while some obliging friend filling a fine sieve with sand and dust gently sprinkles it over you as you go along . It is not that the road is rough and bad that one enjoys this jolting - this is the most provoking part of it for ...
... shot , while some obliging friend filling a fine sieve with sand and dust gently sprinkles it over you as you go along . It is not that the road is rough and bad that one enjoys this jolting - this is the most provoking part of it for ...
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... shot out spasmodically , while others , on the point of making their début , are knocked down your throat , like teeth , unexpectedly , whole sen- tences being in this manner swallowed , unplea- santly it may be , but not unfrequently ...
... shot out spasmodically , while others , on the point of making their début , are knocked down your throat , like teeth , unexpectedly , whole sen- tences being in this manner swallowed , unplea- santly it may be , but not unfrequently ...
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... shot - riddled Residency and buildings of Lucknow . The second morning after leaving Sasseram , we arrived at the Ganges , and before us lay the cele- brated city of Benares , looking bright and pretty in the light of breaking day ...
... shot - riddled Residency and buildings of Lucknow . The second morning after leaving Sasseram , we arrived at the Ganges , and before us lay the cele- brated city of Benares , looking bright and pretty in the light of breaking day ...
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... shots , perhaps , which had rung through these old sacred streets , and startled the dull ears of the sleek , fat , holy Brahmin bulls which dwelt therein for many a century . feverish work listening to how the balance in which their ...
... shots , perhaps , which had rung through these old sacred streets , and startled the dull ears of the sleek , fat , holy Brahmin bulls which dwelt therein for many a century . feverish work listening to how the balance in which their ...
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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.