Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... miles from Calcutta ; on the morrow our voyage would be completed ! -for one hundred days had it been dragging its weary length along . One hundred days at sea ! -an age ! a lifetime ! and yet , long and dreary as this time may have ...
... miles from Calcutta ; on the morrow our voyage would be completed ! -for one hundred days had it been dragging its weary length along . One hundred days at sea ! -an age ! a lifetime ! and yet , long and dreary as this time may have ...
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... to Futteh- ghur ( not more than two hundred miles ) was over sixty days in reaching its destination , having , I believe , visited en route Cal- cutta , Madras , and Bombay . extra occupation to the troops in the shape of night.
... to Futteh- ghur ( not more than two hundred miles ) was over sixty days in reaching its destination , having , I believe , visited en route Cal- cutta , Madras , and Bombay . extra occupation to the troops in the shape of night.
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... miles an hour over a dead level country , which as far as the eye can reach , scarcely appears to rise or fall an inch- flat , flat , flat for miles , and miles , and miles , but rich with vegetation ; on you go , getting such a jolting ...
... miles an hour over a dead level country , which as far as the eye can reach , scarcely appears to rise or fall an inch- flat , flat , flat for miles , and miles , and miles , but rich with vegetation ; on you go , getting such a jolting ...
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... miles distant from Calcutta ) is the farthest point to which the East Indian Railway is at present carried in Bengal Proper - the point at which one of the rays from the magic - lantern of science , now so fast dispersing the darkness ...
... miles distant from Calcutta ) is the farthest point to which the East Indian Railway is at present carried in Bengal Proper - the point at which one of the rays from the magic - lantern of science , now so fast dispersing the darkness ...
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... miles from the railway station , were we directed to proceed , our path thither lying through scenery more thoroughly Indian and characteristic , more innocent of bun- galows and civilized houses , than any I had yet beheld . The ...
... miles from the railway station , were we directed to proceed , our path thither lying through scenery more thoroughly Indian and characteristic , more innocent of bun- galows and civilized houses , than any I had yet beheld . The ...
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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
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
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