The Hunting Grounds of the Old WorldSaunders, Otley & Company, 1860 - 520 páginas |
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... Rifles and revolvers . - Circassian cuisine . - A goose cooked à la Mrs. Harris .-- Uninvited company . - News of a bear . - A night prowler . - A hunts- man's toilet . The route through the ravines . - The lair . - The Bey's dogs give ...
... Rifles and revolvers . - Circassian cuisine . - A goose cooked à la Mrs. Harris .-- Uninvited company . - News of a bear . - A night prowler . - A hunts- man's toilet . The route through the ravines . - The lair . - The Bey's dogs give ...
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... rifles . - The different systems . -Advice on purchasing fire - arms . - The theory of rifle practice.- Aiming , position , judging distance , and practical hints on shooting.- On the colour of sportsmen's dress - Table , Experiments ...
... rifles . - The different systems . -Advice on purchasing fire - arms . - The theory of rifle practice.- Aiming , position , judging distance , and practical hints on shooting.- On the colour of sportsmen's dress - Table , Experiments ...
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... rifle and pulled , but all in vain - it would not go off . I had only just dropped into a refreshing sleep , when I ... rifles , whilst my of the Old World . 7.
... rifle and pulled , but all in vain - it would not go off . I had only just dropped into a refreshing sleep , when I ... rifles , whilst my of the Old World . 7.
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Henry Astbury Leveson. on my spurs and examined my rifles , whilst my servant poured out some hot coffee , flavoured with but just a " threatening of cognac , " and in a few minutes we were joined by the Killadar , his son , and three or ...
Henry Astbury Leveson. on my spurs and examined my rifles , whilst my servant poured out some hot coffee , flavoured with but just a " threatening of cognac , " and in a few minutes we were joined by the Killadar , his son , and three or ...
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... rifle dry , whatever becomes of his wretched carcass . He should never go rashly to work , keeping always cool , wary , and steady , never allowing any untoward circum- stances to interfere with his equanimity and self- possession ...
... rifle dry , whatever becomes of his wretched carcass . He should never go rashly to work , keeping always cool , wary , and steady , never allowing any untoward circum- stances to interfere with his equanimity and self- possession ...
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The Hunting Grounds of the Old World (Classic Reprint) Henry Astbury Leveson No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Términos y frases comunes
amongst animal appeared Arab arrived bamboo bank Bashi-Bazouk bear beaters beautiful bison Bône Bowani brute bush carried cheroots Chineah Circassian colour coolies couple covered dark dead deep deer dense dogs double rifle dubties elephants eyes feet fell fire followed forest gang gave Googooloo Gooroo Gooty grunt hand head heard herd hill horses huge ibex Indian jungle killed kind Kistimah knew let drive light lion look low country matchlocks miles morning mountain mounted Mulchers Naga nautch nearly night noise nullah Ooty paces party passed peafowl Philippeville pugs ravine rest returned rifle roar rock rolled round route sambur seen shekar shekarry short distance shot shoulder side skin soon spoor sport spot steep strange tent tiger took trail tree tribe Trichinopoly turned tusker village Westley Richards whilst wild woods wounded
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Página 30 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In...