Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 192W. Blackwood, 1912 - Scotland |
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Page 24
... side by side upon the warm sand and conversed quite amicably . Both realised simul- taneously that there is some- thing very uniting in working to retrieve a joint disaster . With one impulse Mr Gale edged a little nearer to Miss ...
... side by side upon the warm sand and conversed quite amicably . Both realised simul- taneously that there is some- thing very uniting in working to retrieve a joint disaster . With one impulse Mr Gale edged a little nearer to Miss ...
Page 35
... side of the Sabi , where , having dragged up the boat high and dry against eventualities , we plunge through the belt of long and sharp pointed reeds which girdles this , like most other African streams . Turning along the firm bank ...
... side of the Sabi , where , having dragged up the boat high and dry against eventualities , we plunge through the belt of long and sharp pointed reeds which girdles this , like most other African streams . Turning along the firm bank ...
Page 42
... side to apprehend the danger , and bound frantically first one way and then another . One animal , indeed , rushes blindly up the bank straight towards us , and meets a bullet at little more than ten paces . The magazine is quickly ...
... side to apprehend the danger , and bound frantically first one way and then another . One animal , indeed , rushes blindly up the bank straight towards us , and meets a bullet at little more than ten paces . The magazine is quickly ...
Page 43
... side . Our ap- pearance is the signal for a chorus of warning barks and a swift retrograde movement ; there is just time for one shot . Breathless from running , and with the perspiration stream- ing into the eyes , it is not a very ...
... side . Our ap- pearance is the signal for a chorus of warning barks and a swift retrograde movement ; there is just time for one shot . Breathless from running , and with the perspiration stream- ing into the eyes , it is not a very ...
Page 45
... side to side with each movement of the body , he makes all haste to shelter . His movements are all easy and graceful , but it is well when they take him away from , and not towards , the traveller . Woe betide the unhappy man or beast ...
... side to side with each movement of the body , he makes all haste to shelter . His movements are all easy and graceful , but it is well when they take him away from , and not towards , the traveller . Woe betide the unhappy man or beast ...
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Abors asked Bannu Benny Beyrout Bias bird boat Bosenna Bowldler British called Captain Cai Captain Hunken carried Chor Church course CXCII.-NO Cyll Cyllene deck Dinah English eyes face Fancy feet French frigate Gale Government guns Gurkhas hand harbour head heard Hocken Home Rule honour House House of Lords Iphigenia knew lady land Leslie Gale letters live looked Lord Lord Kitchener Lordessa ma'am ment miles mind Miss Etherington Miss Fane morning Néréide never night Omar once Palmerston Parliament passed Perivale Philp port Port Louis Port Vendres prose rock round Sahib Satyrs seemed Seetaram ship side Sikh smile Snatty stag stared stood Straloch subahdar sure table d'hôte tell there's thing thought tion told took turned wind words Zattere