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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... told long ago in Bagdad by other Scheherazades . Sometimes I understood these tales and blushed under my walnut - oil complexion ; more often I lost the thread , but still listened , letting the accents and idioms of the narrator sink ...
... told long ago in Bagdad by other Scheherazades . Sometimes I understood these tales and blushed under my walnut - oil complexion ; more often I lost the thread , but still listened , letting the accents and idioms of the narrator sink ...
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... told me to stay here another year . " " Does your guru always go to the hills and leave you in the plains ? " I asked . " Yes , he goes every year . He teaches me for three months at Benares . The rest of the year I earn my living by ...
... told me to stay here another year . " " Does your guru always go to the hills and leave you in the plains ? " I asked . " Yes , he goes every year . He teaches me for three months at Benares . The rest of the year I earn my living by ...
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... told you to wait here for a man from the West ? " " He did not tell me to wait here . But there is no differ- ence between one place and another . You would have found me , wherever I happened to be . " " I was told , years ago , that ...
... told you to wait here for a man from the West ? " " He did not tell me to wait here . But there is no differ- ence between one place and another . You would have found me , wherever I happened to be . " " I was told , years ago , that ...
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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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