The Day's WorkDoubleday & McClure Company, 1898 - 431 pages |
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abstrac ain't Archangels ball Bell Bhils Board boat body-snatcher Breslau bridge Bukta Cottar crew Dimbula dreams engine-room engines eyes Faiz Ullah feet Findlayson foot forward Georgie girl Gods goin grey Grey Dawn Grotkau half Haliotis Hambletonian hand Hanuman head heard Hitchcock Holdock hour hundred Jan Chinn John Chinn Kittiwynk knew Lammergeyer laughed looked Lutyens Maltese Cat Martyn Master Georgie McPhee McRimmon miles Mother Gunga Muldoon navvy never night Peroo play Polaris Poney ponies Punjabi Purple Emperor regiment remember rivets round Sahib Satpura Scott Shikast ship Shiraz shouted side Skidars skipper steam stood talk Tedda tell There's things Thirty-Mile Ride thou thought tiger told took turned voice waiting Wardrop whispered William Wilton yellow horse young
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Page 342 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out? When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 224 - To you in David's town, this day, Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign. 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Page 180 - I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did, And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid.
Page 263 - This time he acted on experience, and leaving Bamboo to guard the goal in case of accidents, came through the others like a flash, head and tail low — Lutyens standing up to ease him — swept on and on before the other side knew what was the matter, and nearly pitched on his head between the Archangels' goal-post as Lutyens kicked the ball in after a straight scurry of a hundred and fifty yards. If there was one thing more than another upon which The Maltese Cat prided himself, it was on this...
Page 195 - Life among men who had a great deal of work to do, and very little time to do it in, had taught her the wisdom of effacing, as well as of fending for, herself. She did not by word or deed suggest that she would be useful, comforting, or beautiful in their travels, but continued about her business serenely : put the cups back without clatter when tea was ended, and made cigarettes for her guests. " This time last night," said Scott, "we did n't expect — er— this kind of thing, did we?
Page 254 - No man can manage his stick and his reins and his whip that way," said The Maltese Cat. " I've fallen over every square yard of the Malta ground, and I ought to know." He quivered his little, flea-bitten withers just to show how satisfied he felt; but his heart was not so light. Ever since he had drifted into India on a troop-ship, taken, with an old rifle, as part payment for a racing debt, The Maltese Cat had played and preached polo to the Skidars' team on the Skidars
Page 74 - She's a highly complex structure o' various an' conflictin' strains, wi' tissues that must give an' tak? accordin' to her personal modulus of elasteecity.' Mr. Buchanan, the chief engineer, was coming towards them. 'I'm sayin' to Miss Frazier, here, that our little "Dimbula" has to be sweetened yet, and nothin
Page 256 - Keep the ball hanging, then," said Shiraz. " That wears out every pony that is not used to it." Next time there was no easy galloping across the ground. All the Archangels closed up as one man, but there they stayed, for Corks, Kittiwynk, and Polaris were somewhere on the top of the ball, marking time among the rattling sticks, while Shiraz circled about outside, waiting for a chance. " We can do this all day," said Polaris, ramming his quarters into the side of another pony.
Page 253 - ... after lunch they arranged themselves by ones and twos at different points round the ground, so that if a stick were broken the player would not have far to ride for a new one. An impatient British Cavalry Band struck up "If you want to know the time, ask a p'leeceman!" and the two umpires in light dust-coats danced out on two little excited ponies. The four players of the Archangels' team followed, and the sight of their beautiful mounts made Shiraz groan again.