With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 29
Página 4
... land was not so very far from suffering precisely the same humiliations . And in the end we failed , with what loss we still remember , and gave the Sudan away . The second act is not a merry one . The third was less tragic , but it was ...
... land was not so very far from suffering precisely the same humiliations . And in the end we failed , with what loss we still remember , and gave the Sudan away . The second act is not a merry one . The third was less tragic , but it was ...
Página 73
... land which had once been cultivated , black cotton land ; and black cotton land when the wind blows is neither wholesome nor agree- able . It rose off the ground till the place was like London in a fog . On the horizon it lowered like ...
... land which had once been cultivated , black cotton land ; and black cotton land when the wind blows is neither wholesome nor agree- able . It rose off the ground till the place was like London in a fog . On the horizon it lowered like ...
Página 101
... land once cultivated , now overgrown with Sodom apples . Nervous critics pointed out that dervishes might attack the long line of the zariba , and slip in between the force and its water . But most people knew that nothing of the sort ...
... land once cultivated , now overgrown with Sodom apples . Nervous critics pointed out that dervishes might attack the long line of the zariba , and slip in between the force and its water . But most people knew that nothing of the sort ...
Página 105
... with innumerable stars , so white and clear that you almost hold up your hand to touch them - it was worth a couple of marches of sand - storm to come into such a land . Our side , too , was thick with mimosa and 105 ON THE ATBARA.
... with innumerable stars , so white and clear that you almost hold up your hand to touch them - it was worth a couple of marches of sand - storm to come into such a land . Our side , too , was thick with mimosa and 105 ON THE ATBARA.
Página 106
... land . Atbara banks are green , birds whistle and coo in the tree - tops , now and again a hare switchbacks AN EMPTY LAND . 107 across the line of march 106 ON THE ATBARA .
... land . Atbara banks are green , birds whistle and coo in the tree - tops , now and again a hare switchbacks AN EMPTY LAND . 107 across the line of march 106 ON THE ATBARA .
Términos y frases comunes
21st Lancers Abu Hamed angareb Arab Atbara attack Baggara bank battalions battery battle battle of Omdurman Berber Bimbashi Blackwood and Sons boats British Brigade bullets Cairo camel-corps camels Camerons camp campaign Captain cavalry Cheap Edition cloth Colonel Crown 8vo dead Demy 8vo Dervishes desert Dongola donkeys Edinburgh Egypt Egyptian army enemy English Fcap fight fire force four front Gebel gunboats guns half Halfa horses Hunter infantry Jaalin Kerreri Khalifa Khartum killed Lancers LL.D looked Mahmud Maps Maxims Merawi Metemmeh miles morning native never night Nile numerous Illustrations officers OLIPHANT Omdurman Osman Osman Digna Portrait Post 8vo Professor railway regiment Revised Rifles river round sand Scotland Seaforths Second Edition Shendi Sirdar soldiers squadrons steamers Suakim Sudan Sudanese Third Edition tion trenches troops University of Edinburgh vols wall William Blackwood wounded zariba
Pasajes populares
Página 26 - Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in FlowerGardens all the year round.
Página 10 - Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev.
Página 15 - Goethe's Faust. Part II. Translated into English Verse. Second Edition, Revised. Fcap. Svo, 6s. The Works of Horace. Translated into English Verse, with Life and Notes.
Página 24 - A Discourse on Ethics,' &c. A New Edition. Crown 8vo, IDS. 6d. Gravenhurst ; or, Thoughts on Good and Evil. Second Edition, with Memoir of the Author. Crown 8vo, 8s. A Discourse on Ethics of the School of Paley.
Página 7 - FAITHS OF THE WORLD, The. A Concise History of the Great Religious Systems of the World. By various Authors. Being the St Giles* Lectures — Second Series.
Página 4 - CHURCH SERVICE SOCIETY. A Book of Common Order : being Forms of Worship issued by the Church Service Society.
Página 9 - Fourth Edition, post 8vo. With Illustrations and Map. 7s. 6d. A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War. New and Cheaper Edition. 8vo. With Illustrations and Map. 12s. 6d. Fire-Fountains. The Kingdom of Hawaii : Its Volcanoes, and the History of its Missions. With Map and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, 25s. Wanderings in China. New and Cheaper Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 10s. Granite Crags : The Yo-semite- Region of California.
Página 5 - COCHRAN. A Handy Text-Book of Military Law. Compiled chiefly to assist Officers preparing for Examination ; also for all Officers of the Regular and Auxiliary Forces. Comprising also a Synopsis of part of the Army Act. By Major F. COCHRAN, Hampshire Regiment Garrison Instructor, North British District. Crown 8vo, 7s.
Página 3 - Second Edition. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 7s. 6d. Cultivated Plants : Their Propagation and Improvement. Including Natural and Artificial Hybridisation, Raising from Seed, Cuttings, and Layers, Grafting and Budding, as applied to the Families and Genera in Cultivation. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 12s. 6d. BURTON. The History of Scotland : From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection.
Página 27 - DD, Principal of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews, and one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland. Second Edition. 2 vols.