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... heard ( and he has made himself to be well remembered ) of an Indian chief called Hyder Ali Khan . This man possessed the western , as the Com- pany , under the name of the nabob of Arcot , does the eastern division of the Carnatic . It ...
... heard ( and he has made himself to be well remembered ) of an Indian chief called Hyder Ali Khan . This man possessed the western , as the Com- pany , under the name of the nabob of Arcot , does the eastern division of the Carnatic . It ...
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... heard of , were mercy to that new havock . A storm of universal fire blasted every field , consumed every house , destroyed every temple . The miserable inhabit- ants , flying from their flaming villages , in part were slaughtered ...
... heard of , were mercy to that new havock . A storm of universal fire blasted every field , consumed every house , destroyed every temple . The miserable inhabit- ants , flying from their flaming villages , in part were slaughtered ...
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... heard , resembling the rolling of thunder , but louder , and of longer continuance , than that heard within the tropics in time of storms . This noise preced- ed a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds , fol- lowed by an ...
... heard , resembling the rolling of thunder , but louder , and of longer continuance , than that heard within the tropics in time of storms . This noise preced- ed a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds , fol- lowed by an ...
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... heard ; but he endeavoured , by calling and by gestures , to persuade them to follow . Vast rocks of indurated lava from the crater were bounding by them , and others falling , that would have overwhelmed a cit- adel . Not one of the ...
... heard ; but he endeavoured , by calling and by gestures , to persuade them to follow . Vast rocks of indurated lava from the crater were bounding by them , and others falling , that would have overwhelmed a cit- adel . Not one of the ...
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... heard . When the girl had at last succeeded in appeasing them all with her pitch- fork , she answered , that Ellinor O'Donoghoe was at home , but that she was out with the potatoes ; and she ran to fetch her , after calling to the boys ...
... heard . When the girl had at last succeeded in appeasing them all with her pitch- fork , she answered , that Ellinor O'Donoghoe was at home , but that she was out with the potatoes ; and she ran to fetch her , after calling to the boys ...
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