Peregrine Pultuney; Or, Life in India, Volume 2J. Mortimer, 1844 |
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... sort or description , " and having given vent to his feelings in these words , Julian Jenks came to anchor on a hencoop , and took up a Calcutta paper that was lying thereon with a teles- cope stretching across it to keep it from ...
... sort or description , " and having given vent to his feelings in these words , Julian Jenks came to anchor on a hencoop , and took up a Calcutta paper that was lying thereon with a teles- cope stretching across it to keep it from ...
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... sort of consequential , coxcombical manner , very harmless and pardonable , however , for it im- plied nothing more than that he had got back again to his own proper element , and that he had the advantage of the white men there . It ...
... sort of consequential , coxcombical manner , very harmless and pardonable , however , for it im- plied nothing more than that he had got back again to his own proper element , and that he had the advantage of the white men there . It ...
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... sort of a place Calcutta really is . We have nothing to do with what it ought to be — we leave all that to the fertile imaginations of panorama - makers and writers of travels . In these volumes we have con- fined ourselves exclusively ...
... sort of a place Calcutta really is . We have nothing to do with what it ought to be — we leave all that to the fertile imaginations of panorama - makers and writers of travels . In these volumes we have con- fined ourselves exclusively ...
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... picture of Calcutta . As for foot passengers , there are many and many - sorted , but they are not such as we see in the annual prints and panoramas . There C 3 PEREGRINE PULTUNEY . 33 there is not a nobler row of houses in the ...
... picture of Calcutta . As for foot passengers , there are many and many - sorted , but they are not such as we see in the annual prints and panoramas . There C 3 PEREGRINE PULTUNEY . 33 there is not a nobler row of houses in the ...
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... sort , which are anti- English in their effect , the young gentlemen sent out to hire a buggy to take a drive on the " course , " or grand mall of Calcutta , where people drive up and down from six o'clock till dark , seeing , being ...
... sort , which are anti- English in their effect , the young gentlemen sent out to hire a buggy to take a drive on the " course , " or grand mall of Calcutta , where people drive up and down from six o'clock till dark , seeing , being ...
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