The Linesman: Or, Service in the Guards and the Line During England's Long Peace and Little Wars, 第 3 巻G. W. Hyde, 1856 |
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... eyes ; or where chirped a noisy brood of sparrows , often to my great annoyance and disgust , —when in a particularly meditative mood , I might , perchance , be reclining back in my camp - chair , " with feet resting on the edge of the ...
... eyes ; or where chirped a noisy brood of sparrows , often to my great annoyance and disgust , —when in a particularly meditative mood , I might , perchance , be reclining back in my camp - chair , " with feet resting on the edge of the ...
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... eyes over the Himalayah and the Indus , -is probably at this moment jotting down every weak point in our Empire of the East , and tracing out the track through which it may be reached by the Kalmuc and the Cos- sack , or stricken more ...
... eyes over the Himalayah and the Indus , -is probably at this moment jotting down every weak point in our Empire of the East , and tracing out the track through which it may be reached by the Kalmuc and the Cos- sack , or stricken more ...
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... eye ; but my trusty friend , Bradford , who had just entered , seeing that something was amiss , instantly led me out of the room , and accompanied me home . Staunton was there , and I found some re- lief in unbosoming myself to such ...
... eye ; but my trusty friend , Bradford , who had just entered , seeing that something was amiss , instantly led me out of the room , and accompanied me home . Staunton was there , and I found some re- lief in unbosoming myself to such ...
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... eyes and mouth , were likewise imperatively to be eschewed . Such , in addition to a good deal of practice in the Persian tongue , was the sort of know- ledge I picked up whilst so frequently on guard ; nor was it entirely confined to ...
... eyes and mouth , were likewise imperatively to be eschewed . Such , in addition to a good deal of practice in the Persian tongue , was the sort of know- ledge I picked up whilst so frequently on guard ; nor was it entirely confined to ...
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... eye to the proceedings of such na- tives , as under various pretexts were constantly loitering about the cantonments , and the Re- sidency ; and that they could not stir without his having an accurate knowledge of all their movements ...
... eye to the proceedings of such na- tives , as under various pretexts were constantly loitering about the cantonments , and the Re- sidency ; and that they could not stir without his having an accurate knowledge of all their movements ...
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