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... yataghan and cut them down , or whether they had gone up to the cemetery , I discovered only when the path turned far ahead and I looked back . One hundred and twenty riders one behind the other , at five feet distance , and each horse ...
... yataghan and cut them down , or whether they had gone up to the cemetery , I discovered only when the path turned far ahead and I looked back . One hundred and twenty riders one behind the other , at five feet distance , and each horse ...
Page 176
... yataghan and struck out . There was a loud crash . I grew deaf . The chans crashed to the ground , scores of them at a time , like the ripe fruit of a felled tree . They rolled about . Karaibrahim struck a second time amid the ringing ...
... yataghan and struck out . There was a loud crash . I grew deaf . The chans crashed to the ground , scores of them at a time , like the ripe fruit of a felled tree . They rolled about . Karaibrahim struck a second time amid the ringing ...
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... yataghan . But I did not take it , for I remembered the hundreds of innocent souls whose blood that yataghan had drunk . And the black Turkish priest would have cut me down with the same yataghan , if Karaibrahim had not leant out of ...
... yataghan . But I did not take it , for I remembered the hundreds of innocent souls whose blood that yataghan had drunk . And the black Turkish priest would have cut me down with the same yataghan , if Karaibrahim had not leant out of ...
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