Memoirs of a CadetSaunders, 1839 - 338 Seiten |
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... carried by every sentry , and not one compliment did I get . " No man cried , God save him ! " I say again , I saw all this - and lived ! After due registration in the office of the town - major , we proceeded next to the office of the ...
... carried by every sentry , and not one compliment did I get . " No man cried , God save him ! " I say again , I saw all this - and lived ! After due registration in the office of the town - major , we proceeded next to the office of the ...
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... carried , I was told , to the value of a lakh of rupees ( 10,0007 . ) on her person . Our own countrywomen were also arrayed in very rich attire ; but their principal charms lay not in their apparel . The whole entertainment was ...
... carried , I was told , to the value of a lakh of rupees ( 10,0007 . ) on her person . Our own countrywomen were also arrayed in very rich attire ; but their principal charms lay not in their apparel . The whole entertainment was ...
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... carried along with us . The little cook - boat was , moreover , useful when treating with fishermen for their ware , or for conveying us ashore when we chose to walk along the beach , gun in hand , while our more stately argosy held on ...
... carried along with us . The little cook - boat was , moreover , useful when treating with fishermen for their ware , or for conveying us ashore when we chose to walk along the beach , gun in hand , while our more stately argosy held on ...
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... carried ashore from the boat , through the mast - head of which it is reeved , and the dandees drag along the ves- sel by this means . They themselves walk along the shore in measured pace , and invaria- bly keep the step . At times ...
... carried ashore from the boat , through the mast - head of which it is reeved , and the dandees drag along the ves- sel by this means . They themselves walk along the shore in measured pace , and invaria- bly keep the step . At times ...
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... of bro- cade , round his loins . He carried a long staff in his hand . His bearing was threatening in the extreme , though he abstained from offering personal violence to the unfortunate offenders . His companions , MEMOIRS OF A CADET . 45.
... of bro- cade , round his loins . He carried a long staff in his hand . His bearing was threatening in the extreme , though he abstained from offering personal violence to the unfortunate offenders . His companions , MEMOIRS OF A CADET . 45.
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afterwards Agra Allahabad amongst amusement appeared arms arrival Askern bank battalion beautiful became Benares Bengal Berhampore boat budgerow building Buxar Calcutta called Calpee cantonment Cawnpore centre command commenced Cossimbazar Delhi delightful Dinapore distance dome durzee duty EDMUND LODGE elephants English Etawah European feet flowers four Ganges gentleman ghaut head height Hindoos hundred India Jumna ladies LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Lucknow mahout Mahumedan master ment Milden miles military morning mosque Muttra native night Nuwab o'clock O'Farrel occasion officers OTLEY ourselves Paddy palace palkee Pariah dogs party passed Post 8vo proceeded rain rainy season regiment rise river road round rupees Sahib Scarsdale sentries sepoy servants Shah Juhan side sircar soldiers Speering square station stone Taje Taje Muhal Thornel tion travelling trees vessel village voyage wall white marble whole wind yards young
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Seite 124 - From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Seite 144 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Seite 172 - ... of fifty feet, above which the wall is raised about fourteen feet, to hide the shaft of the dome; in the four less sides, formed by cutting off the angle of the square, a double range of arches rises to the top ; but here, instead of raising the wall, whose uniformity would destroy its beauty, a small pavilion, crowned by a dome, is raised at each great angle of the building, and fills up the hollow bosom of the shaft. The outside is beautifully inlaid with white marble ; the plan of the edifice...