Peregrine Pultuney; Or, Life in India, Volume 2J. Mortimer, 1844 |
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... body was smoking on the poop of the Hastings , the pilot was smoking , and the chief officer was smoking , and old Colonel Coteloll was smoking , and Major Lackywell , the ex A. D. C. , and even Doleton had got a cigar , though it was ...
... body was smoking on the poop of the Hastings , the pilot was smoking , and the chief officer was smoking , and old Colonel Coteloll was smoking , and Major Lackywell , the ex A. D. C. , and even Doleton had got a cigar , though it was ...
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... body who got any intelligence at all , got precisely the kind of intelligence they wanted . The Miss Gowanspecs received a letter from their aunt , to say that she was very anxious to see them- hoped that they had brought out all the ...
... body who got any intelligence at all , got precisely the kind of intelligence they wanted . The Miss Gowanspecs received a letter from their aunt , to say that she was very anxious to see them- hoped that they had brought out all the ...
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... body seemed in a great hurry to get on shore as fast as they could . The Miss Gowanspecs were seen off in charge of a most sedate - looking , white - bearded old chu- prassey , who seemed to go through the thing as though he were used ...
... body seemed in a great hurry to get on shore as fast as they could . The Miss Gowanspecs were seen off in charge of a most sedate - looking , white - bearded old chu- prassey , who seemed to go through the thing as though he were used ...
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... bodies , after the most approved fashion , into the wooden boxes opened to receive them ; and , easy as the process may appear to gentlemen who are used to it , we are bound to say , that many much wiser people than Peregrine Pultuney ...
... bodies , after the most approved fashion , into the wooden boxes opened to receive them ; and , easy as the process may appear to gentlemen who are used to it , we are bound to say , that many much wiser people than Peregrine Pultuney ...
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... bodies , playing about in the dust , or congregated on the plain , flying their little paper kites with the greatest possible elation of spirits . Around the tanks , in the neighbourhood of the Government - house , you may see gathered ...
... bodies , playing about in the dust , or congregated on the plain , flying their little paper kites with the greatest possible elation of spirits . Around the tanks , in the neighbourhood of the Government - house , you may see gathered ...
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