Only an Ensign: A Tale of the Retreat from CabulTinsley brothers, 1871 - Afghan Wars |
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... hills named Siah Sung , or " the Black Rocks . " The apartment in which the three were seated , each in a bamboo easy chair and wearing fur- trimmed poshteens ( or native pelisses ) above their blue undress surtouts , while they idled ...
... hills named Siah Sung , or " the Black Rocks . " The apartment in which the three were seated , each in a bamboo easy chair and wearing fur- trimmed poshteens ( or native pelisses ) above their blue undress surtouts , while they idled ...
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... hills to the westward and the Arab - looking village of Behmaru , which means " the place of the husbandless , " from a legend of the time of old - remote , perhaps , as the wars of Mohammed Ghori . An Afghan maid of high rank had been ...
... hills to the westward and the Arab - looking village of Behmaru , which means " the place of the husbandless , " from a legend of the time of old - remote , perhaps , as the wars of Mohammed Ghori . An Afghan maid of high rank had been ...
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... hills which we have to scour to - morrow ; and we move off from the Cantonments in the dark - an hour before daybreak . " “ One glass more ere you go , Jack . " " Thanks , " replied Polwhele , and then he added with mock gravity ; " two ...
... hills which we have to scour to - morrow ; and we move off from the Cantonments in the dark - an hour before daybreak . " “ One glass more ere you go , Jack . " " Thanks , " replied Polwhele , and then he added with mock gravity ; " two ...
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... thus far into the bowels of the land ' for nothing , " replied Polwhele , laughing ; " and to - morrow I , for one , shall begin with the Ghazeeas among yonder hills , Khan . " " The Siah Sung is full of deep and dark THE WARNING . 23.
... thus far into the bowels of the land ' for nothing , " replied Polwhele , laughing ; " and to - morrow I , for one , shall begin with the Ghazeeas among yonder hills , Khan . " " The Siah Sung is full of deep and dark THE WARNING . 23.
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... hills are the chosen haunt of the Ghoul Biaban , " said Taj Mohammed , and though a brave man , he lowered his voice as he spoke , for the Afghans believe devoutly in the existence of " the Spirit of the Waste , " a lonely demon ...
... hills are the chosen haunt of the Ghoul Biaban , " said Taj Mohammed , and though a brave man , he lowered his voice as he spoke , for the Afghans believe devoutly in the existence of " the Spirit of the Waste , " a lonely demon ...
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Ackbar Khan Afghan Afghanistan Ameen Oollah Khan Amen Oollah amid armed asked Audley Trevelyan Bala Hissar beautiful Bob Waller Braddon brigade Burgoyne Cabul camel cantonments Captain Cavalry chief colour Cornish dark dead death Denzil Derrick Devereaux dhooley Elphinstone Emir of Bokhara Envoy escape exclaimed eyes face fate fellow Feringhees gate Ghilzies girl hair hand handsome heard heart hills Hindoo horse horsemen hostages hyæna India Jellalabad juzail juzailchees Kaffir Khyber Khyber Pass knew Kohistan Kussilbashes Kuzzilbashes ladies Lamorna laughing looking Mabel Macnaghten matchlock Mohammed mountains Native Infantry never night officers pale passed Peshawur Polwhele poor Queen regimental replied Denzil replied Waller Rose Trecarrel round sabre Sahib seemed Shah Sujah Shah's Sharkley Shireen Khan shot Siah Sung Sir Robert Sale Sirdir smile snow soldiers sword Sybil Taj Mohammed terrible thought Treherne troops voice wild William Macnaghten wounded Wuzeer young
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Page 15 - You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ? " He to the Cornishman said. But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake And sheepishly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the Wedding was done And left my wife in the porch. But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church ! " ' An interesting variation from the usual run of Wishing Wells is to be found in Denbighshire.
Page 219 - ... friendship, to let him know, without any disguise, all that had occurred to me since my departure from St. Sulpice. I gratified him ; and so far from concealing anything, or attempting to extenuate my faults, I spoke of my passion with all the ardour with which it still inspired me. I represented it to him as one of those especial visitations of fate, which draw on the devoted victim to his ruin, and which it is as impossible for virtue itself to resist, as for human wisdom to foresee.
Page 37 - we see that you are not like the infidel Hindoos that follow you : you are men, born and bred like ourselves, where the seasons vary, and in their changes give vigour both to body and mind. We wish that you had come among us as friends, and not as enemies, for you are fine fellows one by one, though as a body we hate you.
Page 282 - She treats you ill, I fear ; a little beating would do her good," suggested the lady. "A beating!" exclaimed Denzil, with astonishment.
Page 115 - ... of her lord. With her words she caressed Ilderim ; but he knew well that she bore him no love; and once when she set food before him he smelt poison, and did not eat thereof. But he knew that the king loved her, and therefore he said naught of this wickedness; for Ilderim was wise, and knew well that a man freshly in love is more blind than the bats at noonday.
Page 115 - that, live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Page 187 - We are already begining to see the nearer approach of that happier time, when "nation shall not lift up the sword against nation, neither shall men learn war any more." O, thrice blessed Golden Age of futurity! when the ardent aspirations of the living, and the irrepressible longings of many "noble dead...
Page 161 - She smiled on many just for fun — I knew that there was nothing in it ; I was the first, the only one Her heart had thought of for a minute ; I knew it, for she told me so, In phrase which was divinely...