"Afghan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leader reports leaving the Springs, with his party all in good spirits; beside the white men, there were three Afghan camel-drivers, and the party had a mixed equipment of camels and horses. On May 1st, they left the telegraph line, and, turning to the westward, soon found themselves in excessively ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc
... what had been the chief events in the external affairs of England during the nineteenth century he would say: the Napoleonic wars, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the China, Ashanti, Afghan, Zulu, Soudan, Burmese, and Boer wars, the occupation of Egypt, the general expansion of the Empire in Africa—and what not else besides. He would not mention the United States. To the American the history of his country has chiefly to do with ...
— The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great - Anglo-Saxon Nations • H. Perry Robinson
... the Rajput flashed with pride. His brother-at-arms, the Afghan, met the defiant look, and said, with ...
— Tales of Destiny • Edmund Mitchell
... in an Eastern bungalow, In sight of the everlasting snow Of the grand Himalayas, row on row, Thus wrote my friend:— "I had travelled far From the Afghan towers of Candahar, Through the sand-white ...
— Voices for the Speechless • Abraham Firth
... children cuddled close to the big dog and waited. Louis pulled mamma's blue and red afghan from the lounge, and after tucking it carefully over his little sisters, crawled under ...
— Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
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