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... horse drosky for the hotel , I was most unpleasantly mpressed by the scattered huts and insignificant houses which constituted that part of the tortuous main street nearest its ghostly - looking railway station , where oil - lamps and ...
... horse drosky for the hotel , I was most unpleasantly mpressed by the scattered huts and insignificant houses which constituted that part of the tortuous main street nearest its ghostly - looking railway station , where oil - lamps and ...
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... horses , and 216 guns the two amounting to exactly 216,000 men , 49,200 horses , and 648 guns . It will be thus seen that the Russians had come to do or die , well supplied with men and all the impedimenta of war . Then , too , in ...
... horses , and 216 guns the two amounting to exactly 216,000 men , 49,200 horses , and 648 guns . It will be thus seen that the Russians had come to do or die , well supplied with men and all the impedimenta of war . Then , too , in ...
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... horses of finer mould . The Cossack captain varies considerably ; he is often a superior if not a highly - educated man , and not unfrequently an aristocratic ne'er - do - weel , who loves to strut en grand seigneur in eccentric ...
... horses of finer mould . The Cossack captain varies considerably ; he is often a superior if not a highly - educated man , and not unfrequently an aristocratic ne'er - do - weel , who loves to strut en grand seigneur in eccentric ...
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... horses for ourselves , an araba ( native cart ) for provision , an arabaji ( driver ) , together with a sort of general utility man , one Johannes , whose gorgeous costume vied with the one Williams obtained for himself , together with ...
... horses for ourselves , an araba ( native cart ) for provision , an arabaji ( driver ) , together with a sort of general utility man , one Johannes , whose gorgeous costume vied with the one Williams obtained for himself , together with ...
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... horses as the arabaji whipped up his bony steeds and dashed off in advance ; then the hooting and yelling , and the eternal ider ider ider ! ( go on ) of our guards as that very irregular force got into position in our rear . Consul ...
... horses as the arabaji whipped up his bony steeds and dashed off in advance ; then the hooting and yelling , and the eternal ider ider ider ! ( go on ) of our guards as that very irregular force got into position in our rear . Consul ...
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