Memoirs of a CadetSaunders, 1839 - 338 Seiten |
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... native boats , such as boliahs , dingies , or what- ever species of craft presented itself . Great was the clamour and verbal warfare that arose amongst the various candidates for our patronage ; to wit , the native boatmen , who ...
... native boats , such as boliahs , dingies , or what- ever species of craft presented itself . Great was the clamour and verbal warfare that arose amongst the various candidates for our patronage ; to wit , the native boatmen , who ...
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... native agent , had already attached himself to me , and was alongside , entreating my patronage ; and he informed me , " when Missy Beebee ( young ladies ) come new from Europe , then always plenty young gentlemen come to ghaut to see ...
... native agent , had already attached himself to me , and was alongside , entreating my patronage ; and he informed me , " when Missy Beebee ( young ladies ) come new from Europe , then always plenty young gentlemen come to ghaut to see ...
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... native waiter , stood behind each of our chairs , with chouree * in hand , to keep in awe the flies , and a punkah waved pleasantly over our heads , —and all this lordly service for two cadets ! What an antithesis ! a breakfast in ...
... native waiter , stood behind each of our chairs , with chouree * in hand , to keep in awe the flies , and a punkah waved pleasantly over our heads , —and all this lordly service for two cadets ! What an antithesis ! a breakfast in ...
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... natives of India . are so remarkable , and whispered in my ear the soothing promise , that with my permission he would produce a tailor who should " do for master B 5 MEMOIRS OF A CADET . 9 ship, when all has been said in its favour...
... natives of India . are so remarkable , and whispered in my ear the soothing promise , that with my permission he would produce a tailor who should " do for master B 5 MEMOIRS OF A CADET . 9 ship, when all has been said in its favour...
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... native servants who are unemployed , and on the look - out for a situation : accordingly , on returning to my quarters , I was besieged by a host of candidates . I here found the assistance of my friend the sircar very bene- ficial : he ...
... native servants who are unemployed , and on the look - out for a situation : accordingly , on returning to my quarters , I was besieged by a host of candidates . I here found the assistance of my friend the sircar very bene- ficial : he ...
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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...