Confessions of a Thug, Том 3R. Bentley, 1839 |
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Сторінка xvii
... knew were on their way accompanied by their owner , a merchant of a town not far from Hingolee : he mur- dered this person , his attendants , and cattle- drivers , brought the merchandise up to Hin- golee under INTRODUCTION , xvii.
... knew were on their way accompanied by their owner , a merchant of a town not far from Hingolee : he mur- dered this person , his attendants , and cattle- drivers , brought the merchandise up to Hin- golee under INTRODUCTION , xvii.
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... knew not of , and of Thuggee being carried on in parts of the coun- try where it is least suspected , and has never been discovered till lately . It is indeed too true , Ameer Ali , said I ; Your old vocation seems to be as flourishing ...
... knew not of , and of Thuggee being carried on in parts of the coun- try where it is least suspected , and has never been discovered till lately . It is indeed too true , Ameer Ali , said I ; Your old vocation seems to be as flourishing ...
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... knew that we were again travelling . I pass over the journey , as I remember nothing of it , except that Gunesha was no longer with us , which I was very glad of ; for I hated him , and could not bear his presence . Even in after years ...
... knew that we were again travelling . I pass over the journey , as I remember nothing of it , except that Gunesha was no longer with us , which I was very glad of ; for I hated him , and could not bear his presence . Even in after years ...
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... knew of my origin ; and for this reason I was never allowed out of his or his wife's sight . I must then however have speedily forgotten all about it , or at least have retained so confused and indistinct a recollection of the circum ...
... knew of my origin ; and for this reason I was never allowed out of his or his wife's sight . I must then however have speedily forgotten all about it , or at least have retained so confused and indistinct a recollection of the circum ...
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... knew they were expected , I feigned to lie down and go to sleep as usual ; but when they had all come , I got up cautiously , and hid myself behind a Purdah or screen at the further end of the room where they sat . After they had eaten ...
... knew they were expected , I feigned to lie down and go to sleep as usual ; but when they had all come , I got up cautiously , and hid myself behind a Purdah or screen at the further end of the room where they sat . After they had eaten ...
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adventure Ameer Ameer Ali arms asked Azima band beautiful bhil Bhowanee Bhudrinath body booty Brij Lall bunij camp Char Minar Cheetoo cloth coss cried dare Dullal durbar Dussera eyes fate father favour fear Feringhees followed Ganesha Ghuffoor Khan give hand head hear heard heart Hindoo Hindostan hookah Hoosein horse hundred rupees Hyderabad Inshalla Ismail Jemadar Jhalone jungle Junglee Kafir killed knew Kumal laughed leader look Lughaees matchlock Meer Sahib Moola morning Motee Nagpoor never night noble noble Khan Nuwab omens party passed Peer Khan person Pindharee plunder poor reached ready replied rest road Rokurreas roomal Saees Sahoukar seen sent slave soldiers soon speak spot Surfuraz Khan sword Syud tell tent thee thou thought thousand rupees Thuggee Thugs tion told town travellers village whole words wretch zenana Zora
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Сторінка 318 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Сторінка 341 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Сторінка 151 - And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Сторінка 58 - I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.
Сторінка 136 - A token true of Bosworth field ; His eyebrow dark, and eye of fire, Show'd spirit proud, and prompt to ire ; Yet lines of thought upon his cheek Did deep design and counsel speak.
Сторінка 65 - I will say nothing more than this," said my father, " that you will be thrown much into the society of Hindoos, all of good caste, and you will find them as faithful and as worthy of your friendship as any Moosulman; such, at least, has been my experience of them.
Сторінка 400 - ... scene, the scene of death, for I verily believed I should be led to instant execution : why should the mockery of a trial be given to one so steeped in crime as I was ? A short time after our arrival at the town, I was conducted, closely guarded, to the officer who was employed by the English Government to apprehend Thugs. A tall, noble-looking person he was, and from the severe glance he cast on me I thought my hour was come, and that ere night I should cease to exist.
Сторінка 183 - Where is the man existing who can iay a word against Ameer Ali's honour, which ever has been and ever will remain pure and unsullied ? Have I ever broken a social tie ? ever been unfaithful or unkind to a comrade ? ever failed in my duty or in my trust ? ever neglected a rite or ceremony of my religion? I tell you, sahib, the man breathes not who could point his finger at me on any one of these points. And if you think on them, they are those which, if rigidly kept, gain for a man esteem and honour...
Сторінка xiii - ... the lines of road that pass by and branch off from them, with the knowledge and connivance of the two landholders by whose ancestors these groves had been planted ; I should have thought him a fool or a madman : and yet, nothing could have been more true. The bodies of a hundred travellers lie buried in and...
Сторінка iv - ... horrible work, and consequently the most dangerous and destructive. "Travellers seldom hold any communication with the towns through which they pass, more than for the purchase of the day's provisions : they sometimes enter them, but pitch their tents or lie under the trees which surround them; to gain any intelligence of a person's progress from village to village is therefore almost impossible. The greatest facilities of disguise among thieves and Thugs exist in the endless divisions of the...