The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 62;Volume 135William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1927 |
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... mahout . ' We were camping in a little open patch of greensward near a tiny village on the edge of a vast sal jungle , a picturesque two- roomed thatched bungalow our temporary headquarters , supple- mented by a row of tents a hundred ...
... mahout . ' We were camping in a little open patch of greensward near a tiny village on the edge of a vast sal jungle , a picturesque two- roomed thatched bungalow our temporary headquarters , supple- mented by a row of tents a hundred ...
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... mahout wildly endeavouring to stop it . It was one of those scenes that remain printed on one's mind that nothing can ever obliterate . There was nothing to be done . One was helpless . It had all been so sudden and it was all over in a ...
... mahout wildly endeavouring to stop it . It was one of those scenes that remain printed on one's mind that nothing can ever obliterate . There was nothing to be done . One was helpless . It had all been so sudden and it was all over in a ...
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... mahout who had ridden it for fifteen years both assured me that it had never before shown the slightest signs of running amuk when on duty . Lady A. always declared that the antipathy was personal and that she had felt it from the ...
... mahout who had ridden it for fifteen years both assured me that it had never before shown the slightest signs of running amuk when on duty . Lady A. always declared that the antipathy was personal and that she had felt it from the ...
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... mahout even has none . He has nothing but an ankur , a formidable instrument with two sharp points , one straight at the end and the other in the form of a hook beside it , convenient for digging violently into the animal's head . This ...
... mahout even has none . He has nothing but an ankur , a formidable instrument with two sharp points , one straight at the end and the other in the form of a hook beside it , convenient for digging violently into the animal's head . This ...
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... mahout possesses . Instead of a saddle which one can grip and so possibly maintain one's seat , one either has a howdah that lurches violently from side to side as the ponderous beast crashes on and threatens every moment to break away ...
... mahout possesses . Instead of a saddle which one can grip and so possibly maintain one's seat , one either has a howdah that lurches violently from side to side as the ponderous beast crashes on and threatens every moment to break away ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 449 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, " Fools ! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Página 632 - And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Página 456 - I moti tuoi, né di sospiri è degna La terra. Amaro e noia La vita, altro mai nulla; e fango è il mondo.
Página 452 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Página 715 - The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high, Toss'd his beam'd frontlet to the sky; A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment...
Página 344 - But yet the Lord that is on high, Is more of might by far, Than noise of many waters is, Or great sea-billows are.
Página 443 - The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Página 714 - The curtain falls, the play is played: The Beggar packs beside the Beau; The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid; The Thunder huddles with the Snow. Where are the revellers high and low? The clashing swords? The lover's call? The dancers gleaming row on row? Into the night go one and all.
Página 715 - The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
Página 444 - For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.