VampireGodfrey A.S. Wieners at the Sign of the Lark, 1901 - 159 oldal |
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alien race back blown big blue mark Boffkin buried the boy Burman to open Burmans shun calthrops hampered Chester who weeps Colonel's covered the clearing day was begin dead Lieutenant East is East Empress ferash fifty file file of Burman Five score heads galley Gauri gray langur Heaven's gate HERE'S a widow Jack Barrett Jemadar Hira Lal jezail jingal covered jungle Kafir Kamal laughed and fled Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib lips are sealed Little Tin Gods Maggie mare ning to fall open him Heaven's Overland Mail Pabeng River party-twenty rifles pleasant to look Potiphar public Her face Quetta rebel village Sahib should go samadh Shikaris marched Shikaris picked Shikaris went back Simla Sleary sleepy Chester Snider squibbed soul of Lieutenant Subadar Prag Tewarri Subaltern dead sword swore Tara Devi Tewarri who tells There's a grave there's Subadar Prag thou tonga-bar vext village of Pabeng widow in sleepy Yusufzai
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2. oldal - There were two men in one city ; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him...
65. oldal - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
66. oldal - And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride : He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and the day, And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away. Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides : "Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides?
76. oldal - They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault, They have taken the Oath of the Brotherin-Blood on leavened bread and salt : They have taken the Oath of the Brotherin-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God.
74. oldal - I hold by the blood of my clan; " Take up the mare for my father's gift — by God, she has carried a man!" The red mare ran to the Colonel's son, and nuzzled against his breast; "We be two strong men," said Kamal then, "but she loveth the younger best.
68. oldal - He's up and away from Fort Bukloh as fast as he can fly, Till he was aware of his father's mare in the gut of the Tongue of Jagai, Till he was aware of his father's mare with Kamal upon her back, And when he could spy the white of her eye, he made the pistol crack. He has fired once, he has fired twice, but the whistling ball went wide. "Ye shoot like a soldier,
45. oldal - Is the torrent in spate? He must ford it or swim. Has the rain wrecked the road? He must climb by the cliff. Does the tempest cry "Halt"? What are tempests to him? The Service admits not a "but
69. oldal - Twas only by favor of mine," quoth he "ye rode so long alive: "There was not a rock for twenty mile, there was not a clump of tree, "But covered a man of my own men with his rifle cocked on his knee. "If I had raised...
82. oldal - Said our Lady of the Snows. A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: " Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own.
74. oldal - Life can offer — save to handle sweep again. By the brand upon my shoulder, by the gall of clinging steel, By the welt the whips have left me, by the scars that never heal ; By eyes grown old with staring through the sunwash on the brine, I am paid in full for service — would that service still were mine!