Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 pagina's |
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Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India Sir Vivian Dering Majendie Volledige weergave - 1859 |
Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India Sir Vivian Dering Majendie Volledige weergave - 1859 |
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1st Bengal Fusiliers Allahabad appearance arrived baggage Bagh bank Bareilly beautiful behold Bengal Bheesties body bright buildings bullets BULLOCK-TRAIN bullocks Calcutta camels camp capture case-shot cavalry Cawnpore cheer cheroots column dark death Delhi desperate doolies dust elephants endeavour enemy English excitement eyes fact fcap fcap 8vo feeling fight fire force Fyzabad glittering Goomtee guns hands heat Hindoo HISTORY horse artillery India infantry Iron Bridge Kaiserbagh legs look Lucknow Maun Singh miles minarets morning mutiny native Nawab-gunge night noise occasion officers once one's Oude Outram palace palanquin Pandy pariah dogs passed picket pleasant post 8vo rain reader regiment Rifle river round Royal Artillery Royal Welsh Fusiliers scene seemed Sepoys shot side Sikhs Sir Colin soldiers sort streets syces tents trees troops tulwar village walls weary whole wounded wretched
Populaire passages
Pagina 266 - The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Pagina 249 - O'errun and trampled on: then what they do in present Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; 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.
Pagina 197 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pagina 275 - 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...