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In a sumptuous through train we now pass rapidly over nearly one thousand miles of a country which is intensely interesting, historically and ethnologically, and finally arrive in the famous city of Agra, which stands supreme among Indian cities as a centre of architectural beauty.
I can't bear to see your gray hairs in sorrow and poverty." "Well, Jimmy well, agra God enable you, avourneen; 'tis a good intintion.
"Indeed, very many things happened," said the Mugger, beaten in his second attempt that night to get the better of his friend. The river was empty for a while. Then came one or two dead, in red coats, not English, but of one kind all Hindus and Purbeeahs then five and six abreast, and at last, from Arrah to the North beyond Agra, it was as though whole villages had walked into the water.
The six days spent at Agra Lord Elgin was 'disposed to rank among the most interesting of his life.
He prudently bottled the rest of his rage till he got safe into his boat, then shook his fist at the Agra, and cursed her captain sky-high. "You see the fair wind, but you don't see the Channel fret a-coming, ye greedy gander. Downs! You'll never see them: you have saved your money, and lost your ship, ye lubber."
Twenty thousand men were employed upon it for twenty-two years, and for its inlaid work "gems and precious stones came in camel-loads from various countries." The next morning I bid farewell to Agra, more than satisfied with my visit to the Taj. It stands unique and distinct from anything else one sees the whole world round.
We shall accompany a flying column for the first two days' march, and then strike across for Agra." The next two days the Warreners spent in investigating the town, in wandering through the deserted palaces, and admiring their vast extent, and in saying good-by to their friends.
Sir Bindon Blood was at Agra, when, on the evening of the 28th of July, he received the telegram from the Adjutant-General in India, appointing him to the command of the Malakand Field Force, and instructing him to proceed at once to assume it. He started immediately, and on the 31st formally took command at Nowshera. At Mardan he halted to make arrangements for the onward march of the troops.
The battering train arrived from Agra on the 12th, and the trenches were opened on the following day. In point of territory, the country ruled over by the Rajah of Bhurtpoor was a comparatively small one. It was inhabited by a people called Jats, who differed in many respects from the communities round them.
THE way the pirate dropped the mask, showed his black teeth, and bore up in chase, was terrible: so dilates and bounds the sudden tiger on his unwary prey. There were stout hearts among the officers of the peaceable Agra; but danger in a new form shakes the brave, and this was their first pirate: their dismay broke out in ejaculations not loud but deep. "Hush," said Dodd doggedly; "the lady!"
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