A Subaltern's Letters to His Wife

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Longmans, Green, 1902 - 228 oldal
 

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102. oldal - The Boer scrawled on the locket, " You'll never see your dear Dad any more," and it passed from hand to hand until it came into the possession of a notorious shopkeeper of Bloemfontein, now in prison at Capetown. This man gave it to his wife, who wore it until she lost it in the street. There it was found by one of our men, and identified. (6) The following incident came under my own observation : — When the owners deserted Ortell's Farm they carried off all they could lay their hands on. But their...
195. oldal - ... in the balance. It was revolting; it was an outrage on affection ; it would create a breach which aeons could not repair. All I could do was to order my grey pony, stuff some biscuits into the pockets of my fur coat, and snatch a cup of tea and a bit of cold meat. Then, at the stroke of seven, off went we fifteen victims into the darkness, to puzzle out an ill-defined track which only one of us had ever seen before; to lose our attendant Scotch cart several times; to fall into holes and gullies...
157. oldal - ... bundles in bags, bundles too large to be got into any bags, immense masses of papers of all shapes and no shapes, which the bearers staggered under, and threw down for the time being, anyhow, on the Hall pavement, while they went back to bring out more. Even these clerks were laughing. (65) Not to put too fine a point upon it, as Mr Snagsby would say, what is the meaning of all this hermeneutical and archival activity?
108. oldal - HD, to be refractory, and rnp, to be contumacious.) In Holland the expression is used collectively, but in South Africa it is also employed of one person with the meaning rogue, rascal, knave. Skrim-shanker. — A malingerer, one who feigns sickness to escape work. " Food with the colonials was always ' skoff ' ; a malingerer was never anything but a skrimshanker.
89. oldal - This is the best evidence of the extent and rigour of Dutch persecution ; for the niggers have no particular reason for loving the British. In war with the latter they have lost all that they prize most ; and in the struggle between the two white races they have been exposed to all the dangers and hardships without any of the compensations of...
21. oldal - A hail- or rain-storm in South Africa is an experience. Hailstones out there have been known as big as pigeon's eggs, and I myself saw some sheets of corrugated iron roofing through which hailstones had crashed as though through paper.
111. oldal - M. ! on one occasion it is reported that, after an engagement, he rode into the Boer lines under the impression that he was going home, spent the night there, and left the next morning for his own camp, attended by an escort of Boers rejoicing...
54. oldal - He is marvellously hardy, easy in his paces, clever as a cat over holes and bad ground, generally fast, and up to a surprising amount of weight. He is, besides, generally of excellent temper, without vice or tricks, trained to stand for hours in the same place by himself, and wonderfully good-looking.

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