Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being Reminiscences During Eighteen Years' Residence in BengalS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883 - 298 páginas |
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... plain of pasturage to the eastward of Fort William , are thronged and crowded by visions of the most beautiful female forms clothed in light and classic falling draperies , which float on the thick air as they move along . Crowds of ...
... plain of pasturage to the eastward of Fort William , are thronged and crowded by visions of the most beautiful female forms clothed in light and classic falling draperies , which float on the thick air as they move along . Crowds of ...
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... plain which extends in front of Chouringhee . The building is entered by a magnificent flight of stairs , and has a very hand- some dome surmounted by a statue of Britannia . This vice - regal residence , which occupies an im- mense ...
... plain which extends in front of Chouringhee . The building is entered by a magnificent flight of stairs , and has a very hand- some dome surmounted by a statue of Britannia . This vice - regal residence , which occupies an im- mense ...
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... plain . No glowing twilight now invites the lingering steps to stray . The crackling fire has charms , and circled round you see the cheerful countenances of brother P sportsmen , who laugh away the thoughts of hanging fogs SPORTING ...
... plain . No glowing twilight now invites the lingering steps to stray . The crackling fire has charms , and circled round you see the cheerful countenances of brother P sportsmen , who laugh away the thoughts of hanging fogs SPORTING ...
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... plains of Bengal are every way suited to this elegant sport . Full - grown hares show good running before the long legs . As to the rod and stream , if there is anything respecting them worth mentioning in this month I must not be ...
... plains of Bengal are every way suited to this elegant sport . Full - grown hares show good running before the long legs . As to the rod and stream , if there is anything respecting them worth mentioning in this month I must not be ...
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... plain , boundless , flat , and free to the sportsman , meets the eye ; not a tree or object thereon arrests or intercepts the gaze , save , perhaps , a few shadowy and sulky - looking buffaloes scattered here and there , grazing over ...
... plain , boundless , flat , and free to the sportsman , meets the eye ; not a tree or object thereon arrests or intercepts the gaze , save , perhaps , a few shadowy and sulky - looking buffaloes scattered here and there , grazing over ...
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