Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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... officers , and the white man who is the political agent - the eyes and ears of the force . The hollow is a grassy place on the banks of a stream which runs down a long and narrow valley , hemmed in by forest . In the evening light a few ...
... officers , and the white man who is the political agent - the eyes and ears of the force . The hollow is a grassy place on the banks of a stream which runs down a long and narrow valley , hemmed in by forest . In the evening light a few ...
Էջ 18
... officer stumbles over the bodies of sprawling men , and makes his way to the commander of the force . He finds him lying under his blanket cursing softly to him- self , and bemoaning the suffer- ings of his men . " It's no good stopping ...
... officer stumbles over the bodies of sprawling men , and makes his way to the commander of the force . He finds him lying under his blanket cursing softly to him- self , and bemoaning the suffer- ings of his men . " It's no good stopping ...
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... officer to himself . " Do not suffer any man to go forward until I re- turn to thee , " he adds to one of his Malays , and then pushes his way back through the Sikhs to the rear of the column . He finds the gun coated thickly with mire ...
... officer to himself . " Do not suffer any man to go forward until I re- turn to thee , " he adds to one of his Malays , and then pushes his way back through the Sikhs to the rear of the column . He finds the gun coated thickly with mire ...
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... officer as he flounders forward . The stockade is reached , pulled apart , hacked down , passed over as though it did not exist , and the place is empty ! A few mangled bodies lie here and there sprawling grotesquely , yet looking ...
... officer as he flounders forward . The stockade is reached , pulled apart , hacked down , passed over as though it did not exist , and the place is empty ! A few mangled bodies lie here and there sprawling grotesquely , yet looking ...
Էջ 117
... officers depart on the Waterloo cam- paign . When Dobbin revisits the house after ten years in India , John , the old waiter , receives him as if he had only left the day before , and sup- poses he'll have a roast fowl for his dinner ...
... officers depart on the Waterloo cam- paign . When Dobbin revisits the house after ten years in India , John , the old waiter , receives him as if he had only left the day before , and sup- poses he'll have a roast fowl for his dinner ...
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