Bentley's Miscellany, Band 30Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1851 |
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... officers " sport " round jackets and tight trowsers of blue cloth , with red braid , foraging caps with a gold band , and long silver spurs . The beard is , almost invariably , worn very long , which is a distinguishing peculiarity from ...
... officers " sport " round jackets and tight trowsers of blue cloth , with red braid , foraging caps with a gold band , and long silver spurs . The beard is , almost invariably , worn very long , which is a distinguishing peculiarity from ...
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... officers are in general more comfortable , are many of them neatly furnished , and in the centre of them stands a small house , built expressly for the use of the gover- nor when he comes to inspect the troops . As usual , our traveller ...
... officers are in general more comfortable , are many of them neatly furnished , and in the centre of them stands a small house , built expressly for the use of the gover- nor when he comes to inspect the troops . As usual , our traveller ...
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... officers ; the band of the cuirassier regiment playing before the door , and multitudes of Gauchos and soldiers grouped around to assist at the merry - making . On one side is an enormous fire , composed entirely - strange to say-- of ...
... officers ; the band of the cuirassier regiment playing before the door , and multitudes of Gauchos and soldiers grouped around to assist at the merry - making . On one side is an enormous fire , composed entirely - strange to say-- of ...
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... officers - Major Wilbraham of the staff , and Lieutenant Loring of the Navy - were unexpectedly announced . The intelligence of which they were bearers , put an end , for the time , to all further warlike resolves . The Turks appeared ...
... officers - Major Wilbraham of the staff , and Lieutenant Loring of the Navy - were unexpectedly announced . The intelligence of which they were bearers , put an end , for the time , to all further warlike resolves . The Turks appeared ...
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... officer of rank , named Heckekian Bey : an Armenian by birth , but having been educated in England , he was ... officers , -as the Bey informed me - of Mehemet Ali's court , to some of whom I was introduced ; and , as most of them spoke ...
... officer of rank , named Heckekian Bey : an Armenian by birth , but having been educated in England , he was ... officers , -as the Bey informed me - of Mehemet Ali's court , to some of whom I was introduced ; and , as most of them spoke ...
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Seite 49 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Seite 292 - Alcina from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, that notwithstanding the grace, the facility, the soft elegance of his verse, Alcina is not beautiful.
Seite 441 - Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state ? Yes — one — the first — the last — the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, Whom envy dared not hate, Bequeathed the name of Washington, To make man blush there was but One !
Seite 127 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Seite 640 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Seite 127 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country ; he is a bird of bad moral character ; he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 428 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Seite 54 - And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit in the seats of the Faithful...
Seite 554 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Seite 341 - Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine, as silkworm's thread ; Yea, beautiful as Mermaid's golden hair Upon the waves dispread. Others that, like the broad banana growing, Raised their long wrinkled leaves of purple hue, Like streamers wide out-flowing.