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"Afghan" Quotes from Famous Books

... for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded ...

— A Study In Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle

... eighty dollars cash, a bit of black and gold brocade flung adroitly over the imitation hearth, a cot masquerading under a Mexican afghan of many colors, a canary in a cage, a potted geranium, a shallow chair with a threadbare head-rest, a lamp, a rug, a two-burner gas-stove, ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... left the room and soon returned with a large afghan. "You must take a horizontal position in order that my spell ...

— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe

... out and beheld for the first time the grim, bone-handled, triangular Afghan knife. It was ...

— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling

... Aughan danad, kadr-i-kunra Kabuli: The worth of coynte the Afghan knows: Cabul prefers ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

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