| 1924 - 680 pages
...into slices is then brought in and partaken of without ceremony. Conversation now becomes general. Four things greater than all things are women and horses and power and war. We talk of them all, but to the Arab farmer one thing is greater still, the price of wheat, and when... | |
| English periodicals - 1890 - 540 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and horses and power and war. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1892 - 286 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are,— Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1893 - 246 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post,• Of a shifty... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most. For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 400 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 412 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 352 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,... | |
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