 ... manner, especially when they hope to gain some object, but capable of the grossest brutality when that hope ceases. They are unscrupulous in perjury, treacherous, vain and insatiable, passionate in vindictiveness, which they will satisfy at the cost...  The Imperial Gazetteer of India - Page 46by William Wilson Hunter - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 980 pages
...vindictiveness, which they will satisfy at the cost of their own lives and in the most cruel manner. Nowhere is crime committed on such trifling grounds,...though when it is punished the punishment is atrocious. Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing, and distrustful; estrangements and affrays... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 976 pages
...which they will satisfy at the cost of their own lives and in the most cruel manner. Nowhere is crimo committed on such trifling grounds, or with such general...though when it is punished the punishment is atrocious. Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing, and distrustful; estrangements and affrays... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1024 pages
...vindictiveness, which they will satisfy at the cost of their own lives and in the most cruel manner. Nowhere is crime committed on such trifling grounds,...though when it is punished the punishment is atrocious. Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing and distrustful; estrangements and affrays... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1136 pages
...vindictiveness, which they will satisfy at the cost of Iheir own lives and ui the most cruel manner. Nowhere is crime committed on such trifling grounds,...though when it is punished the punishment is atrocious. Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, intriguing and distrustful; estrangements and affrays... | |
 | Ernest Hurst Cherrington - Alcohol - 1925 - 484 pages
...vindictivencss, which they will satisfy at the cost of their own lives and in the most cruel manner. Nowhere is crime committed on such trifling grounds,...though when It is punished the punishment Is atrocious. Among themselves the Afghans are quarrelsome, Intriguing and distrustful ; estrangements and affrays... | |
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