On the Road to Khiva: With Photogr. Illustr. and Military MapKing, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... face toward Khiva three weeks ago , * I am about to break new ground . On the route from London to St Peters- burg , and from St Petersburg to the Black Sea , I am already , to my cost , as great an authority as the Koran of Albemarle ...
... face toward Khiva three weeks ago , * I am about to break new ground . On the route from London to St Peters- burg , and from St Petersburg to the Black Sea , I am already , to my cost , as great an authority as the Koran of Albemarle ...
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... faces and beady black eyes into every place where they ought not to go - and when brawny peasants , taking their right - hand neighbour's elbow out of their eye , and their heel out of their left- hand neighbour's stomach , make three ...
... faces and beady black eyes into every place where they ought not to go - and when brawny peasants , taking their right - hand neighbour's elbow out of their eye , and their heel out of their left- hand neighbour's stomach , make three ...
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... face bears the legible visé of all weathers , from the ice - winds of the higher Caucasus to the broiling sun of Teheran ; an unfortunate lady who " has so many children that she doesn't know what to do ; " a plump , placid German ...
... face bears the legible visé of all weathers , from the ice - winds of the higher Caucasus to the broiling sun of Teheran ; an unfortunate lady who " has so many children that she doesn't know what to do ; " a plump , placid German ...
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... face , and cowers closer into his warm corner beside the funnel ; the Tartar coils himself up , and goes comfortably to sleep , with his feet in a basket of oranges and his head in a pool of dirty water ; the jaunty cadets hang limply ...
... face , and cowers closer into his warm corner beside the funnel ; the Tartar coils himself up , and goes comfortably to sleep , with his feet in a basket of oranges and his head in a pool of dirty water ; the jaunty cadets hang limply ...
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... face to face with a German or an English army , it would be almost as severe a trial as the first time under fire . However , this Khiva busi- ness will be a light affair ; and we have made very com- plete preparations . " " In what way ...
... face to face with a German or an English army , it would be almost as severe a trial as the first time under fire . However , this Khiva busi- ness will be a light affair ; and we have made very com- plete preparations . " " In what way ...
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