Scinde: Or, The Unhappy Valley, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1851 |
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Page 181 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 48 - ... called by the natives, owes its origin and fame to one Hajee Mufur, a Moslem hermit, who first visited the barren spot, and to save himself the trouble of having to fetch water from afar, caused a rill to trickle from the rock above. It was visited by four brother saints, who, without rhyme or reason, began to perpetrate a variety of miracles. One formed a hot mineral spring, whose graveolent proceeds settled in the nearest hollow, converting it into a foul morass ; another metamorphosed a flower...
Page 57 - A brute nearly twenty feet long, a real Saurian every inch of him, takes the bait and finds himself in a predicament ; he must either disgorge a savoury morsel, or remain a prisoner; and for a moment or two he makes the ignoble choice. He pulls, however, like a thorough-bred bull-dog, shakes his head as if he wished to shed it, and lashes his tail with the energy of a shark who is being beaten to death with capstan bars. In a moment young Waterton is seated like an...
Page 58 - Waterton is seated, like an elephant-driver, upon the thick neck of the reptile, who, not being accustomed to carry such weight, at once sacrifices his fowl, and running off with his rider, makes for the morass. On the way, at times, he slackens his zig-zag, wriggling course, and attempts a bite, but the prongs of the steel fork, well rammed into the soft skin of his neck, muzzle him effectually enough ; and just as the steed is plunging into his own element, the jockey springs actively up, leaps...
Page 29 - ... about merrily, and seems as happy as possible all the time he is putting you to the torture. Here is another not very inviting description from Lieutenant Burton's book, which may be taken as a pendant to the above : — On approaching Kurraebi, three of the senses receive " fresh impresfions," — three organs are affected, far more powerfully, however, than pleasantly, viz., the ear, the nose, and the eye.
Page 29 - ... of the stranger-hating curs, and the streams of the hungry gulls, who are fighting over scraps of defunct fishes, form a combination which strikes the tympanum as decidedly novel. The dark narrow alleys through which nothing bulkier than a jackass can pass with ease, boast no common sewer : drainage, if you can so call it, is managed by evaporation, every inhabitant throws away in front of his dwelling what he does not want within, whilst tho birds and dogs are the only scavengers.
Page 154 - ... minutes, feels as if a cord were being tightened round your pericranium ; your brain burns as if it were on fire ; your head throbs as though it would burst; your skin is hot, and hard as a riding glove.
Page 74 - I proceeded to indite the following billet doux upon a sheet of bright yellow note paper, the "correct thing" in this early stage of an affaire (de cceur), we will call it : — "The rose-hud of my heart hath opened and bloomed under the rays of those sunny eyes, and the fine linen * of my soul receiveth with ecstasy the lustres which pour from that moon-like brow. But, woe is me ! the garden lacketh its songster, and the simooms of desire have dispersed the frail mists of hope.
Page 109 - In some the cupola is surrounded by a ring of smaller domes, with a single or double colonnade, enclosing a gallery and platform, broken by pointed arches in each of the four fronts. Others are girt by lofty stone walls, forming...
Page 93 - India is precarious : who can tell how soon a fever or a bullet may send him to the jackals ? Consequently we are, perhaps, a little over anxious to