The old forest ranger; or, Wild sports of India on the Neilgherry hills, in the jungles and on the plains |
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... tree beyond the boar , and at least three feet above him . At the same instant the unfortunate Heels , startled by the shot , sprang up with a look of wild astonishment from behind the stone where he had lain all this time enjoying a ...
... tree beyond the boar , and at least three feet above him . At the same instant the unfortunate Heels , startled by the shot , sprang up with a look of wild astonishment from behind the stone where he had lain all this time enjoying a ...
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... gnarled , mis- shapen trees , chiefly rhododendrons , shoot out from amongst the crevices of the rocks , stretching their fantastic branches , all glowing with scarlet flowers , across the ravine , and 30 THE OLD FOREST RANGER .
... gnarled , mis- shapen trees , chiefly rhododendrons , shoot out from amongst the crevices of the rocks , stretching their fantastic branches , all glowing with scarlet flowers , across the ravine , and 30 THE OLD FOREST RANGER .
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... tree , a group of natives , who had been relieved from their cheerless watch , sat enveloped in their dark cumbleys , couching round the embers of a wood fire , and shivering with cold , as they handed from one to another the sociable ...
... tree , a group of natives , who had been relieved from their cheerless watch , sat enveloped in their dark cumbleys , couching round the embers of a wood fire , and shivering with cold , as they handed from one to another the sociable ...
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... trees grew along the banks , perched upon which the sportsmen might defy the rage of their formidable enemy ; and the ground , for several hundred yards on each side , was open , and free from brushwood , so that the tiger could not ...
... trees grew along the banks , perched upon which the sportsmen might defy the rage of their formidable enemy ; and the ground , for several hundred yards on each side , was open , and free from brushwood , so that the tiger could not ...
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... tree like a hoody - craw ! - Shooting an M.D. wi ' as little ceremony as if he were a muckle black ape ! —Od sir , you're no canny — you're waur than the tiger himsell — I'll just speel up , and be out o ' your reach , afore the deevle ...
... tree like a hoody - craw ! - Shooting an M.D. wi ' as little ceremony as if he were a muckle black ape ! —Od sir , you're no canny — you're waur than the tiger himsell — I'll just speel up , and be out o ' your reach , afore the deevle ...
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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.
Стр. 130 - It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to...
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