Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being Reminiscences During Eighteen Years' Residence in BengalS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883 - 298 páginas |
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... night set in , they ex- pended intense thought and study in deciphering the ambiguous parts of the manuscript . A considerable sum of money had been expended in the extensive excavations thus necessarily carried on , and the directions ...
... night set in , they ex- pended intense thought and study in deciphering the ambiguous parts of the manuscript . A considerable sum of money had been expended in the extensive excavations thus necessarily carried on , and the directions ...
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... night shall have thrown her mantle of darkness over the face of day . Around the half - burned and expiring embers stalks with gaunt and bony limbs that spectral bird , the hargīlā ( adjutant ) , the protected feathered scavenger of the ...
... night shall have thrown her mantle of darkness over the face of day . Around the half - burned and expiring embers stalks with gaunt and bony limbs that spectral bird , the hargīlā ( adjutant ) , the protected feathered scavenger of the ...
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... Night were all received and obtainable at this vast emporium of barley - sugar and crowns , kings and queens , swans in rushes , cupids in cages , loves in cucumber beds , sailors afloat , pigeons in butter , rosettes , lovers ' knots ...
... Night were all received and obtainable at this vast emporium of barley - sugar and crowns , kings and queens , swans in rushes , cupids in cages , loves in cucumber beds , sailors afloat , pigeons in butter , rosettes , lovers ' knots ...
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... night on the 20th June , 1757 , and of their number , one hundred and twenty - three were suffocated . Language is scarcely adequate to describe the horrors attendant on so dreadful a termination of human life ; it must in a great ...
... night on the 20th June , 1757 , and of their number , one hundred and twenty - three were suffocated . Language is scarcely adequate to describe the horrors attendant on so dreadful a termination of human life ; it must in a great ...
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... night . Next day the enemy began to escalade the northern portion of the fort , but were hurled back with great slaughter . This assault however cost the little band a loss of twenty killed and a great many wounded . Then the survivors ...
... night . Next day the enemy began to escalade the northern portion of the fort , but were hurled back with great slaughter . This assault however cost the little band a loss of twenty killed and a great many wounded . Then the survivors ...
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