Volunteer hanging parties went out into the districts, and amateur executioners were not wanting to the occasion. One gentleman boasted of the numbers he had finished off quite ' in an artistic manner,' with mango-trees for gibbets and elephants for drops,... A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 - الصفحة 234بواسطة Sir John William Kaye - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 2139عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Sir John William Kaye - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...parties went out into the districts, and amateur executioners were not wanting to the occasion. One gentleman boasted of the numbers he had finished off...be caleulated in — and an equal sense of personal Europe. What, estimated by years, independence and responsibility. js a boy in England is a man in... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 1180
...parties were established, and went to work in the district, and one man boasted of the number of Natives he had " finished off" " quite in an artistic manner,"...for gibbets, and elephants for drops — the victims being strung up for pastime in the form of the figure 8. It might be said, on behalf of Mr. Jenkinson,... | |
| Lajpat Rai (Lala) - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...parties went out into the districts, and amateur executioners were not wanting to the occasion. One gentleman boasted of the numbers he had finished off...gibbets and elephants for drops, the victims of this wild justice being strung up, as though for pastime, in ' the form of a figure of eight.' " On mock... | |
| Edward John Thompson - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 158
...parties went out into the districts, and amateur executioners were not wanting to the occasion. One gentleman boasted of the numbers he had finished off...gibbets and elephants for drops, the victims of this wild justice being strung up as though for pastime, in ' the form of a figure of eight.' " 2 At Patna:... | |
| Ralph Fox - 1933 - عدد الصفحات: 134
...parties went out into the districts, and amateur executioners were not wanting to the occasion. One gentleman boasted of the numbers he had finished off quite ' in an artistic manner,' with mango trees for gibbets and elephants for drops, the victims of this wild justice being strung up,... | |
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