Blackwood's Magazine, Volum 219W. Blackwood, 1926 |
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Side 11
... fire on them in their fright ; and that , taking it all in all , he , Musa , would very strongly ad- vise the Bimbashi to postpone his gracious visit until it could be made under more auspicious circumstances . Asked whether Fiki ...
... fire on them in their fright ; and that , taking it all in all , he , Musa , would very strongly ad- vise the Bimbashi to postpone his gracious visit until it could be made under more auspicious circumstances . Asked whether Fiki ...
Side 14
... fire rose straight as a palm - tree in the stillness . They wondered if it was a signal of some kind . And then the peace of the morning was broken by the " plock " plock " of a shot away up the slope of the ridge to the left . " That's ...
... fire rose straight as a palm - tree in the stillness . They wondered if it was a signal of some kind . And then the peace of the morning was broken by the " plock " plock " of a shot away up the slope of the ridge to the left . " That's ...
Side 15
... fire from the left had now increased to quite a sput- ter , and Bimbashi Budgeon had begun to reply with an occasional volley . It was clearly time to be going , if they were to go unscathed . The withdrawal was carried out steadily and ...
... fire from the left had now increased to quite a sput- ter , and Bimbashi Budgeon had begun to reply with an occasional volley . It was clearly time to be going , if they were to go unscathed . The withdrawal was carried out steadily and ...
Side 22
... fire at which his servants were preparing breakfast . Among the group round the fire he noticed a stranger squatting on his hunkers and chatting with his sergeant of police . After break- fast it transpired that the stranger was the ...
... fire at which his servants were preparing breakfast . Among the group round the fire he noticed a stranger squatting on his hunkers and chatting with his sergeant of police . After break- fast it transpired that the stranger was the ...
Side 26
... fire from the left , and the neighbouring picket came run- ning up in support . Hawk- wood's groping hand closed over his revolver ; the firing died down and came to a stop ; he looked round for Fadl . He was gone . The moon was now ...
... fire from the left , and the neighbouring picket came run- ning up in support . Hawk- wood's groping hand closed over his revolver ; the firing died down and came to a stop ; he looked round for Fadl . He was gone . The moon was now ...
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Side 728 - I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual.
Side 435 - poets in especial, prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy— an ecstatic intuition; and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought
Side 387 - Then the boys who are bending and watching on the outside, mark them: they are most useful players, the dodgers, who seize on the ball the moment it rolls out from amongst the chargers, and away with it across to the opposite goal. They seldom go into the scrummage, but must have more coolness than the chargers.
Side 435 - in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.
Side 133 - has not yet quite found his groove and settled down to his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes, bawling as he likes, hustling as he likes. Just as the rest of us,
Side 270 - many other folks who learn to undervalue the means by which they have risen, has behaved, or rather suffered his partner to behave, very uncivilly towards me. But they may both live to know that they should not have kicked down the ladder till they were sure of their footing/
Side 270 - Constable, or rather that Bear his partner, has behaved to me of late not very civilly, and I owe Jeffrey a flap with a foxtail on account of his review of ' Marmion,' and thus doth the whirligig of time bring about my revenges.