Thirty Years of ShikarW. Blackwood & Sons, 1895 - 373 páginas |
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... direction , close followed by the rider who , but a few minutes since , was a bad second in the race . Some few horses take to pig - hunting so kindly that they may be ridden with a loose rein and left to their own discretion in regard ...
... direction , close followed by the rider who , but a few minutes since , was a bad second in the race . Some few horses take to pig - hunting so kindly that they may be ridden with a loose rein and left to their own discretion in regard ...
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... directions and became weapons of offence against the spearmen who lodged them in the boar ; and even then , when smarting from half - a - dozen wounds , the bloodshot eye of the boar has breathed defiance , and its champing teeth have ...
... directions and became weapons of offence against the spearmen who lodged them in the boar ; and even then , when smarting from half - a - dozen wounds , the bloodshot eye of the boar has breathed defiance , and its champing teeth have ...
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... direction : he had resented my staring his way , even though I saw him not , and so had emerged out of his lair like an animal rocket , and knocked me down in his flight . As he failed to claw me , I came off scath- less ; but not so my ...
... direction : he had resented my staring his way , even though I saw him not , and so had emerged out of his lair like an animal rocket , and knocked me down in his flight . As he failed to claw me , I came off scath- less ; but not so my ...
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... direction ; that there he was bitten by a kerait snake , which fell upon him from the top of the screen that served as a door ; that he struggled home , assisted for the last furlong or so by two men who chanced to be going that way ...
... direction ; that there he was bitten by a kerait snake , which fell upon him from the top of the screen that served as a door ; that he struggled home , assisted for the last furlong or so by two men who chanced to be going that way ...
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... direction of the Santhal drums , while two for strategic pur- poses rode so much on the flank of the enemy that they never encountered him ; and one , for more obvious strategical reasons , remained behind at the edge of the jungle ...
... direction of the Santhal drums , while two for strategic pur- poses rode so much on the flank of the enemy that they never encountered him ; and one , for more obvious strategical reasons , remained behind at the edge of the jungle ...
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