Peregrine Pultuney; Or, Life in India, Volume 2J. Mortimer, 1844 |
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... less objectionable . The river was swollen and brown ; the sky black and lowering ; and the country on either side looked for all the world like the flower garden of the gaunt Fever King . 1 It is a pleasant thing to be very young ...
... less objectionable . The river was swollen and brown ; the sky black and lowering ; and the country on either side looked for all the world like the flower garden of the gaunt Fever King . 1 It is a pleasant thing to be very young ...
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... less than a minute he had the pleasure of seeing it floating tranquilly down the Hooghly . " Damnation ! " cried the major ; " it's gone . " " How provoking , " said Peregrine Pultuney ; " I thought you had got hold of it , major " —and ...
... less than a minute he had the pleasure of seeing it floating tranquilly down the Hooghly . " Damnation ! " cried the major ; " it's gone . " " How provoking , " said Peregrine Pultuney ; " I thought you had got hold of it , major " —and ...
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... less than five minutes the cuddy was full of people , and the cuddy - table strewn all over with letters . It is an anxious moment that , with very many , when the dak - boat comes alongside of a vessel that is just entering port . How ...
... less than five minutes the cuddy was full of people , and the cuddy - table strewn all over with letters . It is an anxious moment that , with very many , when the dak - boat comes alongside of a vessel that is just entering port . How ...
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... less time , but we can name our ship . But to return from this little digression to our friends , Peregrine Pultuney and Julian Jenks , who are still upon the poop of the Hastings , making , like Dr. Syntax , their notes on the ...
... less time , but we can name our ship . But to return from this little digression to our friends , Peregrine Pultuney and Julian Jenks , who are still upon the poop of the Hastings , making , like Dr. Syntax , their notes on the ...
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... less delightful to him ? -he en- joyed them , though he was black . But it was a still more exhilarating thing to see the hearty good - will , with which this faithful fol- lower of the prophet laid about him with both his fists , when ...
... less delightful to him ? -he en- joyed them , though he was black . But it was a still more exhilarating thing to see the hearty good - will , with which this faithful fol- lower of the prophet laid about him with both his fists , when ...
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