The most extraordinary aspect of the fighting up to our arrival at Gyantse was that we had only one casualty from a gunshot wound--the Sikh who was shot in the hand at the Dzama Tang affair by a Tibetan whose jezail was almost touching him.
At Dzama Tang Bethune had made a frontal attack on a strong position, and carried it without losing a man.
When we left Phari, months and months before, and crossed the Tang la, we entered the desert.
After the Dzama Tang engagement many of the wounded came in riding on yaks from a distance of fifty or sixty miles.
No opposition is expected this side of the Tang la, but nondescript troops armed with matchlocks and bows hover round the mission on the open plateau beyond.
But its decidedly ardent tang in the raw state, as reminiscent from my own experience, warns me not to dwell too enthusiastically upon its merits in my limited selection of desirable esculent species.
The special session of court convened in Marlin Town with a quiet that lacked any tang of genuine interest.
Henderson's muscles grew suddenly rigid and beads of sweat moistened his forehead in spite of the frosty tang of the morning air.
To-day the Étang de Berre is quite unspoiled in all the charm and novelty of its environment and of the little salt-water towns which surround it.
Their capture in deep water is difficult, and the Martigaux have ingeniously built narrow waterways ending in a cul-de-sac, through which the fish must naturally pass on their passage between the Étang and the sea.
The idea is not quite so chimerical as that advanced in regard to the possibility of moving all the great traffic of Marseilles to the Étang de Berre; but it will be some years before Port St. Louis is another Lorient or Le Havre.
Northward from the shores of the Étang de Berre lies Salon, the most commercial of all the cities and towns between Arles and Marseilles.
Illustration: The Kilometre West of Salon] Before returning to the shores of the Étang de Berre, one should make a détour to Roquefavour and Ventabren.
A migration takes place from the Mediterranean to the Étang from February to July, and from July to February they pass in the opposite direction.
For a matter of fifteen hundred years there has been communication between the Étang de Berre and the Mediterranean, and the Martigaux have ever been alive to keeping the channel open.
There was a crisp tang to the air that made him snuggle into his blankets as he drowsily watched the eastern sky turn pink and gold and delicately crimson in the glory of the rising sun.
The crisp, clean autumn air had a tang in it he had not noticed until this moment.
So that when the early tang of the Fall began to tickle her nose, the blueberry feeling made itself felt also, and she made up her mind to appease it.
They were among the spruce woods now, and the air was full of the unmistakable smell of the trees, with that peculiar tang one could never forget.
Blade and tang were cast in one piece, although one variety which appears to be common to the British Isles has a handle affixed to the blade by rivets, after the manner of the dagger (Fig.
That variety of dagger having a tang to fit into the shaft seems to be peculiar to our islands, as those found on the Continent invariably possess a socket into which the handle could be fitted.
Others have been found with the cutting edge carefully ground and polished, but with the tang only chipped and the edges serrated to afford a firm grip for the sinews used to affix it to the shaft.
They show but little work, simply as much as was necessary to give a satisfactory point, and to provide a tang for fixing.
A stranger, a rough man of the wilds, whose name had preceded him, notorious and deadly, with that vital tang of the West in its meaning!
Wild woods is the place for me," he soliloquized, as the cool wind fanned his cheeks and the sweet tang of evergreen tingled his nostrils.
Pey-tang which is situated at the mouth of a river of the same name, about eight miles north of the mouth of the Peiho.
He told me he had gone a mile or two up the Pey-tang river, been allowed to land, seen the fort, which is quite open behind, and contains about a hundred men.
He tells me that we are to move from the anchorage to a place nearer Pey- tang on Monday, and that on Tuesday a reconnaissance in force is to be made on that place, with the intention, I presume, of taking it.
He tells me that the mouth of the Pey-tang is not staked, and that the 'Actaeon's' boat went three miles up the river.
Again it was mid-afternoon when the Salariki escort sent to do them honor waited at the edge of the wood and Mura and Tang saw them off.
Why does it strikeTang who didn't even hit dirt much--and yet you keep on--?
And they were not surprised when Tang Ya reeled into the mess, his face livid and drawn with pain.
Suppose Tang Ya does a little listening in--and maybe we can rig another surprise if Grange does try to ask advice of someone off world.
Tang turned to his neighbor, Johan Stotz, the Queen's Engineer.
And Dane, having seen the sick all safely stowed in crash webbing, came up to the control cabin, riding out the transfer in Tang Ya's place.
I remember as if it were yesterday the stimulating tang of the frosty air and the racy problem of the open sea yet to be covered.
The tang of the air, the young ice that makes every night, the fantastic midnight dances of the November auroras in the winter sky, all make one forget the petty worries of the daily round.
There is always a challenge, however, left in that trail--just enough to lend tang to the toil of it.
They replied in January, 1906, that the revenue of Tibet was not great, and that the Chinese Resident had stated that the payment of the indemnity was to be the subject of discussion with China, in which Tang at Calcutta was to act.
So standing, we have to work back to the situation there was at Lhasa in 1904, when Yutai was Resident, and before Tang and Chang and Chao ever appeared upon the scene.
Full of tang and fiery pleasure, Far too hot to leave me leisure For a single thought beyond it.
Late September Tang of fruitage in the air; Red boughs bursting everywhere; Shimmering of seeded grass; Hooded gentians all a'mass.
Instead of terminating in a tang or spill, the metal should be continued throughout the handle as far as the point at which the curved knob at its end is carved out.
High in the ancient forest the magnolias burn the perfect alban lucence of their lamps; white are their ivory cups like priestly linen, and fragrant with the tang of foreign citrons.
When Max stepped out just before retiring to see how the weather promised for the morrow, he found a clear sky, the moon just peeping into view, and a wholesome tang in the air.
There was a decided tang of frost in the air, which told that the summer season was gone and early fall arrived.
The boxing-master, Wei tang chow, made a vigorous resistance, and killed about ten pirates.
Wei tang was surrounded by the pirates; nevertheless that his wife fought valiantly by his side.
It is not stated in the Chinese text, whose father rushed forward, whether it was the father of the lady, or of Wei tang chow.
The tang of the frosty air, and the ring of the ponies' hoofs, and the jingle of the bells put plenty of life and fun into her mates; but Ann remained morose.
It was a Wild West Show, and for years I associated America with the intoxication of the circus and, for no reason, with the tang of oranges.
Upon the death of General Liu, Chu Chung-tang appointed his subordinate officers to lead the army, but the subordinate officers competed for power.
Many violent scenes have naturally marked the progress of this important work, the two great parties, the Kuo Ming Tang and the Chinputang, coming to loggerheads again and again.
My friend Mr. Tang Chio-tun also wrote an article, before the internal strife in Mexico broke out, on the same subject and in an even more comprehensive way).
We refer to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Tai Chung of the Tang Dynasty.
When the members of the Kuo Ming Tangcame to draw up the Provisional Constitution they purposely took precisely the opposite course of action and ignored my suggestion.
The "incident of Yuyang" refers to the execution of Yang Kuei-fei, the favourite concubine of Emperor Yuan Tsung of the Tang dynasty.
Under the Manchu Dynasty, at one time General Chu Chung-tang was entrusted with the task of suppressing the Mohammedan rebellion.
Chu Chung-tang finally made the step-son of General Liu the Commander-in-Chief and the officers and soldiers all obeyed his order as they did his father's.
It combines a rare tang of pine, spruce, earth and air, all refreshed.
And everywhere, all pervasive, sifting through the shadows of silvered pine needles and trembling poplars, permeated the cinnamon smell of the barky forest world, resinous of balsam, spicy with the tang of life.
The parched-earth, burnt-oil smell gave place to the minty odor of hay in wind rows, with the cool water tang of the big irrigation ditch flowing liquid gold in the yellow August light.
For although the tang of winter was now in the air even at noon, the weather had been remarkably pleasant.
