Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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... remained exposed to a heavy rifle fire for four hours . Then the Boers came out in some force from the centre of their line of koppjes , when the field batteries wheeled round and made them retire . The Horse Artillery coming up at a ...
... remained exposed to a heavy rifle fire for four hours . Then the Boers came out in some force from the centre of their line of koppjes , when the field batteries wheeled round and made them retire . The Horse Artillery coming up at a ...
Էջ 134
... remained . Regimental officers with their men have gone straight on , trusting to the brains they are told are in rear . They have won the day , but they will not win another : they have done what they were told to do by gentlemen who ...
... remained . Regimental officers with their men have gone straight on , trusting to the brains they are told are in rear . They have won the day , but they will not win another : they have done what they were told to do by gentlemen who ...
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... remained in it as British subjects : the majority , including the fiercer spirits , trekked again , but cut off apparently for ever from access to the sea , the command of the coast being a vital part of British policy , however re ...
... remained in it as British subjects : the majority , including the fiercer spirits , trekked again , but cut off apparently for ever from access to the sea , the command of the coast being a vital part of British policy , however re ...
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vacate my old seat in church owing to the conviction that if I remained where I was , in the vicinity of the choir and the organ , premature deafness would be my lot , I may testify of my own knowledge that either the Sleeping Beauty or ...
vacate my old seat in church owing to the conviction that if I remained where I was , in the vicinity of the choir and the organ , premature deafness would be my lot , I may testify of my own knowledge that either the Sleeping Beauty or ...
Էջ 242
... remained thoughtful . ' Well ? ' I said . What did I care what story they agreed to make up ? ' he cried reck- lessly . They could tell what they jolly well liked . It was their business . I knew the story . Nothing they could make ...
... remained thoughtful . ' Well ? ' I said . What did I care what story they agreed to make up ? ' he cried reck- lessly . They could tell what they jolly well liked . It was their business . I knew the story . Nothing they could make ...
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