Percy Blake; or, The young rifleman, المجلد 3Hurst and Blackett, 1855 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
accordingly Albany Barracks amidst amongst arms Bahauder balderdash Bangalore beautiful Blake Sahib boar boat bottle Brahmin breakfast bungalow called cantonment Captain carnival of Venice centipedes chillum Chouree Mootoo Colonel command cried Croke Sahib Croker dear delight Doctor dogs dubash earth Elise enjoyment exclaimed Croker eyes fellow felt Feringhee gaze hand head heaven Hindoo honor Honoria horses humauls India Julia Monson jungle Jupiter Kistna lady lake laughing length Leslie lofty look luxury Madras Mahratta Major Snubley matchlock maty-boy McClish ment Monson mountain never night occasion officers palanquin pariah dog peons Percy Blake Pindarries Pipkin plunged Polygar poor Pulicat Purseram Bhow Rajah reader ready regiment replied Croker rifle round Rungapa Ruttunpoor scene seemed shore shouted Croker sink my heart smile soon spear speedily splendid stood thought tion trees Trimbuckjee tulwar voice weel wild young Zuleikha
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 281 - ... thrown open on certain conditions. It was to be confined to ships of a certain amount of tonnage ; the trade outward was to be open to all the ports of the empire, but the homeward-bound trade to be restricted to certain ports, to be hereafter named. The Company were to be left in full possession of the power of deportation, to enable them to remove from India individuals whose conduct or intentions they might find or suspect to be dangerous...
الصفحة 129 - Pindarrees were encumbered neither with tents nor baggage; each horseman carried a few cakes of bread for his own subsistence, and some feeds of grain for his horse. The party, which usually consisted of two or three thousand good horse, with a proportion of mounted followers, advanced at the rapid rate of forty or fifty miles a day, turning neither to the right nor left till they arrived at their place of destination.
الصفحة 22 - Then oh ! what pleasure, where'er we rove, To be doom'd to find something, still, that is dear, And to know, when far from the lips we love, We have but to make love to the lips we are near.
الصفحة 129 - ... to the right nor left till they arrived at their place of destination. They then divided and made a sweep of all the cattle and property they could find : committing at the same time the most horrid atrocities, and destroying what they could not carry away. They trusted to the secrecy and suddenness of the irruption for avoiding those who guarded the frontiers of the countries they invaded ; and before a force could be brought against them, they were on their return.
الصفحة 128 - Their name first occurs in Indian history about the end of the seventeenth century. From obscure freebooters, they rose into sufficient consequence to be deemed useful auxiliaries by the different Mahratta powers, whose desultory mode of warfare was suited to their own habits.
الصفحة 128 - THE Pindarrees were not a distinctive race, but a numerous class of men, of different races, religions, and habits, gradually associating and assimilated by a common pursuit. They were all horsemen and all robbers. They...
الصفحة 128 - ... From their preceding or accompanying Mahratta armies, the Pindarrees became occasionally confounded with the Mahrattas, though they were always considered by the latter as essentially distinct, and so immeasurably inferior as not to be allowed to eat with them, or even to be seated in their presence. Occasionally the Mahratta rulers purchased their aid by grants of land, or by a tacit admission of their right to possess tracts which they had already usurped. But the more usual price paid for...
الصفحة 249 - I must plead guilty, and throw myself on the mercy of the court...
الصفحة 266 - ... inglorious Van Tromp, I listened delighted, like another Sterne, to this modern Maria, as on her pretty little pipe she warbled her native wood-notes wild ; gazing in her eyes, and drinking deep draughts of love from a fount the most artless and innocent that .ever inflamed the breast of man. Elise was a child of nature, in the fullest sense of the term. She had never been out of Pulicat, except on a short visit or two to Madras ; and she knew no one but her parents, and some half dozen old residents,...