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... Indian officer who travelled with me grumbled at it ; but he was rich , and he grumbled at everything . He was rich ... India , I shall no doubt have slain as many That lions as other people . My Indian friend was With a Show in the ...
... Indian officer who travelled with me grumbled at it ; but he was rich , and he grumbled at everything . He was rich ... India , I shall no doubt have slain as many That lions as other people . My Indian friend was With a Show in the ...
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... Indian had just blown twenty Sepoys from twenty guns , when the train ran into the railway station at Edinburgh , having done the journey , including stoppages and twenty minutes for dinner , in eleven hours . Within a quarter of an ...
... Indian had just blown twenty Sepoys from twenty guns , when the train ran into the railway station at Edinburgh , having done the journey , including stoppages and twenty minutes for dinner , in eleven hours . Within a quarter of an ...
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... India , suffered so seriously through change of climate , that for some years he had been disabled from any great physical or mental effort . This , however , was in a measure made up to the dis- appointed father by the unity and ...
... India , suffered so seriously through change of climate , that for some years he had been disabled from any great physical or mental effort . This , however , was in a measure made up to the dis- appointed father by the unity and ...
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... India ; mounted it and trotted it through the camp at Wimbledon , gallopped it over the Sussex meadows , and into the village of Craw- ley ; finally pulling up , tired and sad , at Bedford Street , Strand . That hobby - horse was like a ...
... India ; mounted it and trotted it through the camp at Wimbledon , gallopped it over the Sussex meadows , and into the village of Craw- ley ; finally pulling up , tired and sad , at Bedford Street , Strand . That hobby - horse was like a ...
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... India — or at any rate from the East - where it was so called because it was composed of five ingredients , of which the Lemon was one . - I am aware that Dr. Doran ascribes the origin of the word to a club of Athenian wits ; but I am ...
... India — or at any rate from the East - where it was so called because it was composed of five ingredients , of which the Lemon was one . - I am aware that Dr. Doran ascribes the origin of the word to a club of Athenian wits ; but I am ...
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Page 234 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned ; if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins ; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Page 209 - And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes...
Page 226 - Kendal green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand? come tell us your reason ; What sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion? No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
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Page 227 - Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules : but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
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Page 254 - Honour ? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.