A Subaltern's Letters to His WifeLongmans, Green, 1901 - 228 pages |
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... head , and a dark stripe down his back , and dark transverse bands across his body . And then his tail ! Oh ! it is a poem of a tail ; it is an entity in itself ; it lives ! Half as long again as his diminutive body , bushy , flexible ...
... head , and a dark stripe down his back , and dark transverse bands across his body . And then his tail ! Oh ! it is a poem of a tail ; it is an entity in itself ; it lives ! Half as long again as his diminutive body , bushy , flexible ...
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... head is a skew- bald of white and fawn , crowned with annulated , lyrate horns . But his distinctive glory is his ruff - a pear - shaped zone of fluffy white tapering down from the middle of his back to the tail , which can be elevated ...
... head is a skew- bald of white and fawn , crowned with annulated , lyrate horns . But his distinctive glory is his ruff - a pear - shaped zone of fluffy white tapering down from the middle of his back to the tail , which can be elevated ...
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... head and neck , which are tawny ; his under - parts fade into a dirty white . His annulated horns curve suddenly forward , much after the fashion of pins unskilfully bent . He is thick - bodied and a trifle donkeyish , and an ungainly ...
... head and neck , which are tawny ; his under - parts fade into a dirty white . His annulated horns curve suddenly forward , much after the fashion of pins unskilfully bent . He is thick - bodied and a trifle donkeyish , and an ungainly ...
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... head stunned him . At the time I fancied he was dead , and gaily got down and lifted him on to the saddle in front of me . I had only half a mile back to camp , and with one hand clutching his tail and the other his neck I managed very ...
... head stunned him . At the time I fancied he was dead , and gaily got down and lifted him on to the saddle in front of me . I had only half a mile back to camp , and with one hand clutching his tail and the other his neck I managed very ...
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... head ; Tommy Atkins pursues him with a fowling - piece , thinking of the jolly good stew he makes when he's been undressed and given a hot bath . I remember once two officers of ours going out on the veldt near Makouw's Drift , where we ...
... head ; Tommy Atkins pursues him with a fowling - piece , thinking of the jolly good stew he makes when he's been undressed and given a hot bath . I remember once two officers of ours going out on the veldt near Makouw's Drift , where we ...
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