Confessions of country quarters, Volumul 635 |
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Pagina 5
... head quarters will get on pretty well at Cork , but I am booked for a diabolical hole called Dunmanway , further to the south - west . I do not believe it is on any of the maps . I wish you good luck among the Ballymaccrocodile white ...
... head quarters will get on pretty well at Cork , but I am booked for a diabolical hole called Dunmanway , further to the south - west . I do not believe it is on any of the maps . I wish you good luck among the Ballymaccrocodile white ...
Pagina 10
... head as embodied in the gossip of the neighbourhood , calling the attention of the illustrious guest to the mess plate , china , glass , linen , cutlery , and livery . Perhaps the regiment , like the 14th Light Dragoons , has an article ...
... head as embodied in the gossip of the neighbourhood , calling the attention of the illustrious guest to the mess plate , china , glass , linen , cutlery , and livery . Perhaps the regiment , like the 14th Light Dragoons , has an article ...
Pagina 15
... head whenever Lady Caroline fancied she smelt cigars in the house , and , in short , was everything that a son could desire . But I cannot describe the advantage that it is to a man to have a lady mother . I need not describe to the ...
... head whenever Lady Caroline fancied she smelt cigars in the house , and , in short , was everything that a son could desire . But I cannot describe the advantage that it is to a man to have a lady mother . I need not describe to the ...
Pagina 33
... head of my company , for the first two miles , as if I really intended to exterminate the neighbourhood . Johnny walked silently by my side ; he had taken a look at me , and seen that it was expedient not to trouble me yet a while ...
... head of my company , for the first two miles , as if I really intended to exterminate the neighbourhood . Johnny walked silently by my side ; he had taken a look at me , and seen that it was expedient not to trouble me yet a while ...
Pagina 36
... head , is un- happily lost to posterity , for at this moment the head of the column approached a village , the word was passed to march at attention , and the alacrity with which Johnny drew his sword and took his place in the ranks of ...
... head , is un- happily lost to posterity , for at this moment the head of the column approached a village , the word was passed to march at attention , and the alacrity with which Johnny drew his sword and took his place in the ranks of ...
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answered arrived ascer asked Ballymaccrocodile barracks Beauchamp Hall beauty believe better British army brother called Captain Cobb Celt CHAPTER confess Cork COUNTRY QUARTERS course dare say dear Deodatus Derby Derbyshire dinner Doddy doubt dragoons Ducrow Duke of Wellington Dunmanway Edith Ellen O'Reilly eyes feeling felt fire flirt gentleman girl Grampus half hand Hawkins head heard heart Holster honour hope horse hyæna idea Ireland Irish Jenkins Johnny knew Knightsbridge Lady Elizabeth light looked manner marry Mary Anne O'Malley means ment Mesopotamia mess military mind morning mother Nanny never night Nina O'Flaherty officers one's opinion perceived perhaps racter Ravenswood reader rectory regiment remarked Repale replied returned Robert Hawkins Saxon seemed Simpkins SOMERSET soon sort speedily spirits suppose sure talk tell thing thought tion told took turned Waldgrave wanted Wharton wish wonder word young lady
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Pagina 259 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Pagina 248 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pagina 126 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Pagina 197 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Pagina 126 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Pagina 109 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Pagina 11 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Pagina 20 - Act, other than the Person thereunto authorized by Law, shall assume or use the Name, Style, or Title of Archbishop of any Province, Bishop of any Bishoprick, or Dean of any Deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds.
Pagina 256 - They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead ; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday.
Pagina 183 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...