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...led. For soon as hog-eyed Allen reached the walk, Close on his steps paced Bengal Mike, brought in By Kinsey Keene, the subtle-witted one, To match th... ...e feared. But when the hog-eyed one Saw Bengal Mike his countenance grew dark, The bristles o’er his red eyes twitc... ... lowered. Round and round The court-house paced he, followed stealthily By Bengal Mike, who jeered him every step: “Come, elephant, and fight! Come, h... ...s Were cast, and closed the polls, before the door Of Trainor’s drug store Bengal Mike, in tones 130 Spoon River Anthology That echoed through the vi... ... Has gashed him with its teeth, the hog- one Rushed with his giant arms on Bengal Mike And grabbed him by the throat. Then rose to heaven The frighten... ...rightened cries of boys, and yells of men Forth rushing to the street. And Bengal Mike Moved this way and now that, drew in his head As if his neck to... ... But tell me, Muse, What god or goddess rescued Bengal Mike? With one last, mighty struggle did he grasp The murderous hand... ...hook to his weight. And quickly as the lion Leaps on its wounded prey, did Bengal Mike Smite with a rock the temple of his foe, And down he sank and d...

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...stion; and old Colonel Lilywhite, carrying his wife and seven daughters to Bengal, swore that he would have a divorce from Mrs. L., and made an attemp... ... his way humbly to join the regiment at headquarters. The —‘th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, then under the com- mand of Lieut.-Colonel Julius Jowler, C... ...ale ale (I drank two hundred and thirty-four dozen the first year I was in Bengal)—and it was no small piece of fun, certainly, to see old Mrs. Jowler... ...o blacken the reputation of public men. I ask, was any one of these men in Bengal in the year 1803? Was any single conductor of any one of these paltr... ...hed on that awful day!” * * * I HA VE COPIED THIS, word for word, from the Bengal Hurkaru of September 24, 1803: and anybody who has the slightest dou... ...ave left it at the office of my publisher, along with the extract from the Bengal Hurkaru, and anybody may examine both by applying in the counting- h...

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...bour gossip. The Hilda had unaccountably lost her figurehead in the Bay of Bengal, and her captain was greatly affected by this. He and the ship had b... ...eared at night—a clear fine night with just a slight swell— in the gulf of Bengal. Went off without a splash; no one in the ship could tell why, how, ...

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...overnor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra. But British India, properly so c... ..., bears, and wolves which fled be- fore the locomotive; and the marvels of Bengal, Golconda ru- ined Gour, Murshedabad, the ancient capital, Burdwan, ... ... in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thou- sand four hundred feet ... ...” “Oh, a trifle of sea-sickness—I’ve been staying in my berth. The Gulf of Bengal does not agree with me as well as the Indian Ocean. And how is Mr. F...

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...s, but is by no means unpalatable. One of the Indi- ans offers a bundle of Bengal cheroots; and we make acquain- tance with those honest bearded white... ...nsect a moment ago, bounces down upon you expanded into a panting Major of Bengal cavalry. He drives off the Ar- abs with an oath,—wipes his red shini...

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...ir status, exclusion, damnation, as fixed as colour in Georgia or caste in Bengal. But if his mother’s mind worked in that way there was no reason why... ...at which he was to meet two represen- tative Indians with a grievance from Bengal. Husband and wife had but a few moments together. She asked about hi... ...ively finished and very thorough enquiry into human dis- sensions in lower Bengal. Here there were not only race but culture conflicts, and he could w... ... were Hindus, Christians and Mahometans respectively. He could compare the Bengali Mahometan not only with the Bengali Brahminist, but also with the M...

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...of his Waterloo flight. However it might be, he went back to his duties in Bengal very soon after Napoleon had taken up his residence at St. Helena, w... ... and was called Waterloo Sedley during the whole of his subsequent stay in Bengal. The bills which Jos had given for the purchase of those un- lucky h...

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..., adding in a louder tone that his ship happened then to be in the Gulf of Bengal, employed under a government charter. Clearly the transport service ...

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...ence, on a Sunday night, if she could give him any idea of the way back to Bengal. But it was generally said that Mrs Pipchin was a woman of system wi... ...ouched with affectionate remi- niscences of his friend Bill Bitherstone of Bengal, who had written to ask him, if he ever went that way, to bestow a c... ...fidentially, and giving him a thrust with his cane. ‘Son of Bitherstone of Bengal. Bill Bitherstone formerly of ours. That boy’s father and myself, Si... ...gstock never minces matters. The son of my old friend Bill Bitherstone, of Bengal, is a born fool, Sir.’ Here the Major laughed till he was almost bla...

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...he northwest and stared as if he could see from where he stood that Bay of Bengal where—as he affirmed—he would be so much more at home. “You’ll soon ... ... of unsteady airs. Men saw her battling with a heavy monsoon in the Bay of Bengal, lying becalmed in the Java Sea, or gliding out sud- denly from behi...

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... saddle, and in six months not a rupee nor a virgin would he left in Lower Bengal. That is always given as our conclusive justification. But is it our... ...cation. But is it our business to preserve the rupees and virgins of Lower Bengal in a sort of magic inconclusiveness? Better plunder than pa- ralysis...

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...t of house and home already, Head Sahib.” This was a Squadron Commander of Bengal Lanc- ers, home on leave. “I’m afraid he’ll have to go up to his old...

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... tiles; this little wall, which was breast-high, was lined with a hedge of Bengal roses, in the middle of which opened a wooden gate opposite and lead...

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...gagement—with red eyes, while Phil was sailing to Darjiling—”a port on the Bengal Ocean,” as his mother used to tell her friends. He was popular enoug... ...g fifty rupees a month out of office hours. He had the noise of the Bay of Bengal and a Bengali Babu for company; nothing more. He sent foolish letter... ...s Mellish, and he had lived for fifteen years on land of his own, in Lower Bengal, studying cholera. He held that cholera was a germ that propagated i... ...rson, he was called to distinguish him from his father “Young” Gayerson, a Bengal Civilian, who affected the customs—as he had the heart—of youth. “Ve... ...ctorate or something administrative in a particularly un- pleasant part of Bengal—full of Babus who edited newspa- pers proving that “Young” Gayerson ... ...who the Venus Annodomini might be. Which proves that he had been living in Bengal where nobody knows anything except the rate of Exchange. Then he sai... ...ould have made a very good Clerk in the Herald’s College had he not been a Bengal Civilian. Upon a day, between office and office, great trouble came ... ...rtainly never go to Nuddea; even though his pay were doubled. Nuddea is in Bengal, and has nothing whatever to do with a doctor serving in the Punjab.... ... on special duty. There was a nasty outbreak of cholera at Nuddea, and the Bengal Government, being shorthanded, as usual, had borrowed a Surgeon from...

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...eated by big game alone. He wasn’t afraid (though putting himself the question as he believed gentlemen on Bengal tiger-shoots or in close quarters wi...

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...o was also a passenger on board the Ramchunder. He had passed ten years in Bengal. Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labo... ...s there ready to replace the horrid little narrow crib in which the portly Bengal gentleman had been confined during the voyage? He could not think of... ...he next morning, “Mr. Joseph Sedley of the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Civil Service.” Amelia found him up very early the next morning, mor... ...his friend, the Major, been at his elbow. That gentleman would not let the Bengalee rest until he had ex- ecuted his promise of having a home for Amel... ...alling upon Lady Bludyer (wife of Major-General Sir Roger Bludyer, K.C.B., Bengal Army); Lady Huff, wife of Sir G . Huff, Bombay ditto; Mrs. Pice, the... ...e would have been jealous of so dangerous a young buck as that fascinating Bengal Captain. But Dobbin was of too simple and generous a nature to have ... ...te to the Earl of Bareacres and his family, whose proceedings absorbed the Bengalee almost en- tirely. Both the noble couple looked rather younger tha... ...ajor, “and this is her brother, Mr. Sedley, a distinguished officer of the Bengal Civil Service: permit me to introduce him to your lordship.” 134 V ... ...springs and the Doctor’s particular treatment would infallibly restore the Bengalee to youth and slimness. “Dere came here last year,” he said, “Shene...

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...o reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack Pansay, a well-educated Bengal Civilian in the year of grace, 1885, presumably sane, certainly heal... ...t. If I had encouraged him the khansamah would have wan- dered all through Bengal with his corpse. I did not go away as soon as I intended. I stayed f... ... there, and most of the folk of India proper. Balkh and Bokhara there meet Bengal and Bombay, and try to draw eye-teeth. Y ou can buy ponies, turquois... ...out you and their own affairs. That’s what I want.’ “‘Do you remember that Bengali woman I kept at Mogul Serai when I was a plate-layer?’ says I. ‘A f... ... my elbow, and turning round I recognized a casual acquain- tance, a young Bengali law student, called Grish Chunder, whose father had sent him to Eng... ... ground the faces of the poor. Grish Chunder was a young, fat, full-bodied Bengali dressed with scrupulous care in frock coat, tall hat, light trouser...

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...lashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically, Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a show... ...green suffers almost a spiritual change and exaltation under the effect of Bengal lights. 37 Thomas De Quincey my newspaper it was that had drawn her...

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...standing forth against the gray surroundings. But higher still, remark the Bengal roses, sparsely scattered among the laces of the daucus, the plumes ... ...y love eternal! What a differ- ence. Madame de Mortsauf was the skylark of Bengal, trans- ported to our cold Europe, mournful on its perch, silent and... ...of her struggle with anaemia, and was now a woman. She had grown tall; the Bengal roses were blooming in her once sallow cheeks. She had lost the unco...