Glimpses Through the Cannon-smoke: A Series of SketchesG. Routledge and Sons, 1880 - 310 strán (strany) |
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Alumbagh bridecake bridge British bungalow Burmah Burmese Captain Hambleton Cawnpore centre Charbagh cheroots Christmas cloth colour crown 8vo Dilkoosha dinner door drink Eckenstein enclosure entrenchment eyes face Feldwebel fellow fire French front Fusiliers gallant garden garrison gate German girl guns Hagen hair Hambleton hand Havelock head Highland horse hospital improvised theatre Ingleborough Ingleton Inverness King lady letters look Lucknow Mandalay married mem sahibs memory Menghyi Meuse minister Miss Davidson Miss Priest missus morning Mussoorie native navvy night officers Oude Outram Palace passed Pio Nono pleasant Pollen poor Post 8vo pretty railway regiment Residency road Ross-shire round round shot Saarlouis sahibs scene Segowlie sepoy sheep sheep-farming shot side siege sitting soldiers Spicheren stand station stood Street table d'hôte throne tion wall Wellingborough Wellingborough Pincer white elephant wife women wounded young ουρ φορσε
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Strana 299 - God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
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Strana 267 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty : may the Lord have mercy on his soul ! " words dictated by himself on his death bed.
Strana 216 - estate of the realm," having a woon or minister of his own, four gold umbrellas, the white umbrellas which are peculiar to royalty, with a suite of attendants said to be thirty in number. The Burmese who attended us removed their shoes before entering his ' Palace.' The elephant has an appanage or territory assigned to him ' to eat,' like any other dignitary of the empire.
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