The old forest ranger; or, Wild sports of India on the Neilgherry hills, in the jungles and on the plains |
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... fear , may , with some propriety , be applied to me in the present instance . The kind reception I met with , under the disguise of " The Old Forest Ranger , " has encouraged me to reprint , in a connected form , my papers on Indian ...
... fear , may , with some propriety , be applied to me in the present instance . The kind reception I met with , under the disguise of " The Old Forest Ranger , " has encouraged me to reprint , in a connected form , my papers on Indian ...
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... fear of a stag moving when he once gets into good cover . " By this time six other sportsmen had arrived , making in all nine guns . " We muster a good field to - day , and shall , I think , be able to give a tolerable account of this ...
... fear of a stag moving when he once gets into good cover . " By this time six other sportsmen had arrived , making in all nine guns . " We muster a good field to - day , and shall , I think , be able to give a tolerable account of this ...
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... fear . The shouting of the terrified beaters was now heard in all directions , and next moment many of them were seen rushing from the jungle , and scrambling up the face of the rocks ; whilst , with frantic gestures , they waved to ...
... fear . The shouting of the terrified beaters was now heard in all directions , and next moment many of them were seen rushing from the jungle , and scrambling up the face of the rocks ; whilst , with frantic gestures , they waved to ...
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... fear , Charley my boy , he is too old a soldier for us . — He has taken up so commanding a position that there is little chance of our getting near him ; but we may try . " So saying , Mansfield arose , for there was no means of ...
... fear , Charley my boy , he is too old a soldier for us . — He has taken up so commanding a position that there is little chance of our getting near him ; but we may try . " So saying , Mansfield arose , for there was no means of ...
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... fear of missing him , and the nature of the ground would not admit of his approaching any nearer . For a full hour , by his watch , Mansfield kept sentry over his quarry , expecting every moment to see him drop . His heart smote him as ...
... fear of missing him , and the nature of the ground would not admit of his approaching any nearer . For a full hour , by his watch , Mansfield kept sentry over his quarry , expecting every moment to see him drop . His heart smote him as ...
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afore amongst animal appeared auld Ayapah bamboo barrel bear beast beautiful better Bhurmah bison blood boar bound Brahmin brute bushes canna Captain cheroot companions Cotwall cousin cried Mansfield dashed deer devil ears elephant exclaimed Mansfield eyes fcap feel feet fire followed forest Forest Ranger frae ground hand head heard heart Heels honour horse hounds howdah ibex India Ishmail Jemmadar jungle Kamah killed lads laughing look Low Country M'Phee Mahout Maister Charles Mansfield and Charles matchlock maun Miss Kate Mons Meg morning natives Neilgherry Hills never Old Forest old Lorimer Ootacamund panther poor ravine replied Mansfield replied the Doctor rifle roar rock Sahib savage Shikarees shot shoulder side sight smiling spear sport sportsmen stag stood tent thou tiger tigress Todahs trail tree turned venison village watching Watty weapon weel whilst wild wounded young
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Стр. 239 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent, With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent LXXI.
Стр. 239 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
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