 The men are wild with fury and lust for gold — literally drunk with plunder. Some come out with china vases or mirrors, dash them to pieces on the ground, and return to seek more valuable booty. Others are busy gouging out the precious stones from the...  My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 - Page 328by Sir William Howard Russell - 1860 - 828 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1864 - 576 pages
...saddlo-cloths, or the hilts of swords, or butts of pistols or fire-arms. Some swathe their bodies in stnflb crusted with precious metals and gems ; others carry...china. Court after court the scene is still the same. Those courts open one to the other by lofty gateways, ornamented with the double fish of the royal... | |
 | Archibald Forbes - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1895 - 242 pages
...stems of pipes, from saddle-cloths, from hilts of swords, or from butts of pistols and firearms. Many swathe their bodies in stuffs crusted with precious...lumber, brass pots, pictures, or vases of jade and of china." The success attained was magnificent ; but, in Colonel Malleson's words, it might, and ought... | |
 | Frederic Lauriston Bullard - Journalists - 1914 - 518 pages
...saddlecloths, or the hilts of swords, or butts of pistols and firearms. Some swathe their bodies with stuffs crusted with precious metals and gems; others...brass pots, pictures, or vases of jade and china. . . . "Enter three or four banditti of Regiment. Faces black with powder, cross-belts speckled with... | |
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