The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Band 10Viking Press, 1930 - 299 Seiten Autobiography of a British cavalry officer in pre-war India and on the Western front, who later became a member of the Royal flying corps in Mesopotamia. The closing chapters concern his subsequent travels in India and give his interpretation of the Hindu philosophy through the medium of his own personal experience. |
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... Devil's heart is drumming between my legs . Lashkman Piari comes crashing out of the bagh at a trot . Her mahout takes off his yellow turban and waves it and yells to us as if we hadn't seen the six big boar and their thirty brothers ...
... Devil's heart is drumming between my legs . Lashkman Piari comes crashing out of the bagh at a trot . Her mahout takes off his yellow turban and waves it and yells to us as if we hadn't seen the six big boar and their thirty brothers ...
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... Devil slithers down a sand - bank and plunges with a snort of joy into the water . None of the others will face it : there's an ungentlemanly pleasure in that . This boar is a very good swimmer . So is The Devil . I leave his head free ...
... Devil slithers down a sand - bank and plunges with a snort of joy into the water . None of the others will face it : there's an ungentlemanly pleasure in that . This boar is a very good swimmer . So is The Devil . I leave his head free ...
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... Devil go or . ? Why doesn't The Devil go on ? This riding , and fall , and riding again seems to have happened ages ago , but we are still on the same spot . The boar charged . I dropped my spear , didn't I ? Still The Devil is anchored ...
... Devil go or . ? Why doesn't The Devil go on ? This riding , and fall , and riding again seems to have happened ages ago , but we are still on the same spot . The boar charged . I dropped my spear , didn't I ? Still The Devil is anchored ...
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New Years Eve 1905 | 3 |
Durbar and a Dog Fight | 14 |
Masheen of the Mirrored Thumbs | 31 |
Urheberrecht | |
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