 | Basil Hall - 1845 - 252 pages
...our company, and nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all up ! The well-fed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their...detect the rajah spying at me out of the corner of his eye, and half-smiling at the success of his trick. After a time the men were recalled, and the tigers... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1885 - 350 pages
...in our company, and nothing on earth to prevent them munching us all up ! The well-fed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their...the men were recalled and the tigers dragged off." The fakirs and other squalidly holy personages abounding in India, are frequently accompanied by tigers... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pages
...in our company, and nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all up. The wellfed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their...couple of kittens at play. I could, however, detect the Raja spying at me out of the corner of his eye, and half-smiling at the success of his trick. After... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 568 pages
...in our company, and nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all up. The wellfed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their...couple of kittens at play. I could, however, detect the Raja spying at me out of the corner of his eye, and half-smiling at the success of his trick. After... | |
 | William Crooke - 1906 - 594 pages
...play. I could, however, detect the Raja spying at me out of the corner of his eye, and half-smiling at the success of his trick. After a time the men were recalled, and the tigers dragged off." The Kardoli Raja, Lord Roberts tells us, appeared at Lord Canning's Durbar in 1859 with four tigers,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1995 - 298 pages
...in our company, and nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all up! The well-fed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their...detect the Rajah spying at me out of the corner of his eye, and half-smiling at the success of his trick. After a time the men were recalled and the tigers... | |
 | Basil Hall - 2005 - 304 pages
...in our company, and nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all upl The well-fed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their...detect the Rajah spying at me out of the corner of his eye, and half-smiling at the success of his trick. After a time the men were recalled and the tigers... | |
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There we sat, in the midst of the open court, with a couple of full-sized tigers in our company, and nothing on earth to prevent their munching us all up ! The well-fed and well-bred beasts, however, merely lounged about, rubbed their noses together,... 