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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... followed his movements , consciousness could not slip from me . I could see the mist from his nostrils as he stood looking at the sentries who passed and repassed the hurricane - lamp by the Quarter - Guard . Now he regarded me ...
... followed his movements , consciousness could not slip from me . I could see the mist from his nostrils as he stood looking at the sentries who passed and repassed the hurricane - lamp by the Quarter - Guard . Now he regarded me ...
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... followed the horned standards of Tamerlane . Ahead was puss . She made straight for camp , doubled back , tried to dodge between our ranks . A chance hoof broke her back . A couple of raw country - breds , just out of training- school ...
... followed the horned standards of Tamerlane . Ahead was puss . She made straight for camp , doubled back , tried to dodge between our ranks . A chance hoof broke her back . A couple of raw country - breds , just out of training- school ...
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... even if we would , Sahib , for he is rapt . But let us go to him , for he would not have meditated like this in the open unless he had desired you to see him . " We went to the place where he sat , followed 278 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
... even if we would , Sahib , for he is rapt . But let us go to him , for he would not have meditated like this in the open unless he had desired you to see him . " We went to the place where he sat , followed 278 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
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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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