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Page 270 - All those who are in no way connected with the acts of Lord Dalhousie, and are willing to lay down their arms, shall receive a safe passage to Allahabad.
Page 186 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, , Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 420 - In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Page 425 - This romance, with its old-fashioned garden setting, is a refreshing bit of oasis in the drab stretch of current fiction. It is a book in every way worthy of the author of The Rosary...
Page 257 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. "And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of men that went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it.
Page 177 - Miss Sahib! Miss Sahib!" Imam Bux was catching at Helen's arm, and at his touch a panic seized her, and she turned and ran for the house. She did not see the Police guard charge the Sikhs from the rear. That happened just as she reached the verandah, but before she came to it she heard a great thundering of hoofs, and she saw Lauiington's Cavalry come racing down the road.
Page 180 - For the Sikhs were all down now. Every man of them dead, with the dead he had killed around him. In the gateway the corpses lay so thick that it was easier for the mutineers to climb the outer wall than to pass the gate which was guarded by the dead. They broke over the wall as a wave...
Page 257 - Oh ! that one would bring to me,' he said, ' Or e'er it be too late, Of the water from the well of Bethlehem, Which is beside the gate !' Three mighty men, full armed for the fight, Burst through the foemen with resistless might, And brought unto the king, What time the night fell late, Of the water from the well of Bethlehem, Which is beside the gate. The king once more beside his captains stood, And to the mighty men he bent his...
Page 140 - Perhaps they debated whether to call him mutineer—or martyr. on his grave—secretly, as for many years they had put flowers and flags on the grave of an earlier mutineer. Then the regiment was disbanded, and the men went all over India telling the story of Mungul Pandy who had died rather than break his caste by biting the accursed cartridge.
Page 423 - Miss Wentworth turns again to the period of the Terror: shows France in the throes of the Revolution; depicts the relentless malice of the leaders of the bloodthirsty...