The old forest ranger; or, Wild sports of India on the Neilgherry hills, in the jungles and on the plains |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 86
Стр. 3
... young gentle- men who , having devoted their early youth to the rearing of tame rabbits , have never learnt to appreciate the beauties of a grooved barrel , and have , therefore , signally failed in their attempts upon nobler game ; or ...
... young gentle- men who , having devoted their early youth to the rearing of tame rabbits , have never learnt to appreciate the beauties of a grooved barrel , and have , therefore , signally failed in their attempts upon nobler game ; or ...
Стр. 8
... young man , who had but lately arrived from England , and was still in all the happy ignorance of early griffinage . His glossy new hat , fashionably cut green hunting - coat , breeches of virgin - white , and well polished top - boots ...
... young man , who had but lately arrived from England , and was still in all the happy ignorance of early griffinage . His glossy new hat , fashionably cut green hunting - coat , breeches of virgin - white , and well polished top - boots ...
Стр. 9
... young antelope . The two young men mounted in haste , and following the elder Lorimer , dashed down the hill at a smart gallop . Charles was , or was not , in love with his pretty cousin Kate , just as my Fair Readers ( if I am so far ...
... young antelope . The two young men mounted in haste , and following the elder Lorimer , dashed down the hill at a smart gallop . Charles was , or was not , in love with his pretty cousin Kate , just as my Fair Readers ( if I am so far ...
Стр. 23
... young dog , it was a devil of a miss that ! a most palpable miss - worthy of my friends the thistle whippers ! ' You shut both your eyes when you fired that shot , eh ? -- did you not , you young dog , eh ? Well , well - never look ...
... young dog , it was a devil of a miss that ! a most palpable miss - worthy of my friends the thistle whippers ! ' You shut both your eyes when you fired that shot , eh ? -- did you not , you young dog , eh ? Well , well - never look ...
Стр. 26
... young companion . " It requires a little more experience than you have had , to judge whereabouts a stag's shoulder should lie , when nothing but the points of his horns are visible . Don't fire till you can see his body . He is ...
... young companion . " It requires a little more experience than you have had , to judge whereabouts a stag's shoulder should lie , when nothing but the points of his horns are visible . Don't fire till you can see his body . He is ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
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
Популярные отрывки
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...
Стр. 240 - Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness...