Our Last Years in IndiaSmith, Elder, 1862 - 331 pàgines |
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Pàgina 23
... stories ; their , here and there , honey - combed walls , their yashmak'd * women , or assumed * The yashmak is the veil covering all the face below the eyes . The strap by which it is suspended from the forehead is sometimes ornamented ...
... stories ; their , here and there , honey - combed walls , their yashmak'd * women , or assumed * The yashmak is the veil covering all the face below the eyes . The strap by which it is suspended from the forehead is sometimes ornamented ...
Pàgina 25
... story - between Cairo and Suez ; but we dined in an immense tent in the desert . It seemed , however , incredible that any one could touch any of the food , with the exception of the bread and cheese , for the whole of the table , the ...
... story - between Cairo and Suez ; but we dined in an immense tent in the desert . It seemed , however , incredible that any one could touch any of the food , with the exception of the bread and cheese , for the whole of the table , the ...
Pàgina 49
... demi - god is a demi - god no longer from the moment he has been seen to wince at the puncture of mortal shaft . We all know the story of the defiant youth whom no ghost , so he boasted , could scare . The ghost appeared : the boy , 4.
... demi - god is a demi - god no longer from the moment he has been seen to wince at the puncture of mortal shaft . We all know the story of the defiant youth whom no ghost , so he boasted , could scare . The ghost appeared : the boy , 4.
Pàgina 85
... story was told me , the other night , by an officer in whose house the circumstances occurred , and who , though proof in the field against all the palpable terrors of tiger and long - tusked boar , and grisly bear , confessed to me ...
... story was told me , the other night , by an officer in whose house the circumstances occurred , and who , though proof in the field against all the palpable terrors of tiger and long - tusked boar , and grisly bear , confessed to me ...
Pàgina 87
... stories , whatever spasmodic efforts we may have made to hide our qualms under the cover of bravado and sneers . But I doubt whether the nineteenth century would quail before a ghost in a recognizable habit . We should feel that ...
... stories , whatever spasmodic efforts we may have made to hide our qualms under the cover of bravado and sneers . But I doubt whether the nineteenth century would quail before a ghost in a recognizable habit . We should feel that ...
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accustomed Ahmednuggur Ajunta Akola ancient animal appears Aurungabad Author avatars ayeh beautiful believe Bombay Brahmans Buddhist Budh called caste cavalry caves chaitya character Charlotte Brontë cloth colour course Demy 8vo divine doctrine doubt dress earth Edition Ellora Ellora Caves England English European eyes fact faith Fcap Fcap 8vo fire flower Gautema ghost goddess gods green head Hindu honour Hosain Hyderabad hymns Illustrations imagine India Jainas John William Kaye Kaaba Kali look Mahabharata Max Müller Menu Mohammed Mohammedan Mohurrum Müller Mussulman native nature never night observed officers once origin Parsees perhaps poor Post 8vo priests principal prophet Rama Ramayana religion religious sacred sacrifices Saheb saints Sanskrit sculptures sect seems servants Shias Siva sometimes spirit station stone Subah Sudra supposed temple tion told tomb tree Triad truth Varuna Vedas Vedic Vishnu vols worship Yelgaum
Passatges populars
Pàgina 162 - God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer : for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said ; come, let us go.
Pàgina 168 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Pàgina 29 - And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Pàgina 161 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.