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LITERARY COMPETITION

... civilly enough that his I I master had gone ofE that morningu to join the I Bellerophlon as Gravesend, on his way to the f Crimea. f I I grudged the time necessary to go home and tell my wife, but there was no help for it. I puti rip my cab, and in a couple ...

THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES

... this objeot- lesson, sh~owing the changes twvo centuries haive w-rought; but there have been great changes even since the Crimea, and Lord W~olseley is cract utiadiul of these, his conclqyion being that armies to be cifirrent maust not stand still; and ...

Literature

... words is this object-lesson, showing the changes two centuries have wrought ; batthere have been great changes even slinc the Crimea, and Lord Woleeley is most mindful of these, his conclusion being that armuies to beefflieint mnut notstand still, and that ...

THE GREAT MILL STREET MYSTERY

... of polisnsrng the brass rai ing.'' C aptainp earar : nd rre younever wounded, Pat? ?? at Faith, sir, sand I was. In the Crimea , i dirty Rooshun lifretd Iis maii an d fired. I was scared, I tell yez. ?? etrucic nec right under oe left breast. ba. ''But ...

Magazines

... and Servants. In AtalZanta Miss L. Toulmin Smith has Two Extremes in Russia, in which, among the rest, the charms of the Crimea are recoai- mended to the attention of roving English tourists.-Mrs. Creighton writes wsell on Home Education. L'A/girie ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1890
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: 30 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Literature

... advocated, Mr. Rudyard Ripling E contributes a pleasant unpleasant story about an English offioer who was taken prisoner in the SI Crimea, who insulted his captors, and was u r kept in captivity thirty years, and who in half the end managed to crawl into the camp ...

LITERATURE

... bravest Still beats on the bending mast, Still burnas at the battle signal, And rushes before the blast!' From the iron-bound Crimea Came this royal crimson stain: This from the palms of lascknow, This froam Egyptian Pain. This from the wave-worn sailor, ...

BRED IN THE BONE

... realistic Katinka- Miss Rose Saunders looked and acted prettily as Florette. The scenery was good, par- ticularly that of the Crimea. MARRIED, at the Roman Catholic Church, Wimbledon, on the 24th inst., Emily, only daughter of the cele. brated operatic tenor ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1890
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE OLD LADY AND HER PHOTOGRAPH

... who was formerly a lieutenant in the 10th Hussars, and served in India and the Crimea, and possesses the Crimean medal and Sebastopol clasp and the Turkish medal for the Crimea. The Committee which is to be appointed to inquire into the relative taxation ...

Wit and Humour

... oreadisaetintecuryha ve att t e laesedotemeve-atsie it hepcei Queen Natalie of Servia is shortly. oxpected at. Yalta in the Crimea. Thb eon of the Ammeer of Bokhara will arrivo at St. Petersburg, with aun Embasay, in the eea so of the coming autumn. The ...

LITERARY COMPETITION

... bullet pendant from his watch. chain, but which had previously resided in his leg, could talk of the time when I was in the Crimea. Philip had the more intellectual ex. pressioa, and had won at Oxford the under. s graduates' blue-ribbon -the Newdegate ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... when allusion was made to . tactics,or military problemts, the offender was sum-. marily told to lihut up. Hence, at the Crimea, our ofticers were totally ignorant, and the Government at home had still less knowlelge of what war meant. Curiously enough ...