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They were at first entirely surprised by their appearance in the field; then they despised them; and it was not till July and August, 1918, at the beginning of the last great Allied offensive when it will be remembered that Sir Henry Rawlinson had 400 tanks under his command that the Germans awoke too late to the full importance of the new arm.
"I was thinking he might come again in the dark some night to do a little prospecting, or something like that." "I get you. It would be just like him. Quiet it is." And after that the pair spoke only in whispers. Nothing was seen of the calves, and presently Rawlinson was on the point of going back, when, all at once, something occurred to make him remain.
Sir Henry Rawlinson, in the Royal Geographical Journal says: "When Chaldea was first colonized, or at any rate when the seat of empire was first established there, the emporium of trade seems to have been at Ur of the Chaldees, which is now 150 miles from the sea, the Persian Gulf having retired nearly that distance before the sediment brought down by the Euphrates and Tigris."
Thence parted with him, mightily pleased with his company, and away homeward, calling at Dan Rawlinson, and supped there with my uncle Wight, and then home and eat again for form sake with her, and then to prayers and to bed. 8th. Up and abroad with Sir W. Batten, by coach to St.
Besides those at Persepolis, a large tri-lingual inscription was found at Behistun, near the city of Kirmenshah, in Persia, which, containing some ninety proper names, enabled Sir Henry Rawlinson definitely to establish a basis for the decipherment of the Mesopotamian inscriptions. The best account is to be found in Hommel's Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens, pp. 58-134.
Andy rode him hard, cruelly hard, and when the beast, panting, sweating, beaten, would have stopped he dug the spurs in and drove him on, on, until the broncho's breath came in sobbing gasps and his legs trembled under him. Betty, who could never bear to see anything hurt, shouted to Andy Rawlinson as man and beast came abreast of her: "Isn't that enough?" she cried. "You've beaten him. Stop!
26th. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon, and then I to the Exchange, but did little there, but meeting Mr. Rawlinson he would needs have me home to dinner, and Mr.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle. But Andy Rawlinson had not spent his twenty-eight years in the saddle for nothing. He clung to that horse's back as though he had been a part of him, and when the outraged beast tried to throw himself over backward for the second time, Andy evidently decided that he had played enough.
Sir Douglas Haig Atmosphere at headquarters something of Oxford and of Scotland Sir Henry Rawlinson "Degumming" the inefficient Back on the Ridge again The last shell-burst Good-bye to the mess The fellow war-correspondents Bon voyage.
Some thought that he was the 'Tom Folio' of Addison's caricature, in which it was assumed that the study of bibliography was only fit for a 'learned idiot. Hearne defended his friend from the charge of pedantry, and declared that the mistake could only be made by a 'shallow buffoon. Rawlinson had a miserly craving after good books.
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